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October 6, 2010

Who is Clark Rockefeller?


Synopsis
Based on the true story of one of the FBI's most elusive con artists, Emmy Award winner Eric McCormack (TV's "Will & Grace") and Sherry Stringfield (TV's "ER") star in Who is Clark Rockefeller?, an unbelievable story of love, loss and Deceit.
When Clark Rockefeller, aka Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, charmed his way into the life of Sandra Boss, he thought he finally found the perfect identity. However, when Sandra unravels the truth behind Clark's lies, her life and marriage fall to pieces. And when Clark boldly kidnaps his own daughter in an attempt to disappear forever, Sandra must confront her past and expose the truth before it's too late.


Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Sherry Stringfield
• Regina Taylor
• Emily Alyn Lind
• Stephen McHattie
• Eric Mccormack

Writers:
• Edithe Swensen

Producers:
• Edithe Swensen

Directors:
• Mikael Salomon

Short Track


The daily life experiences of Carolinian, Blake Beckett, a five-time stockcar racing short track champion, are exposed through unique characters that work and play through weeks that culminate in 120 mph Saturday nights. Sparks fly as Beckett's country-singing teenaged daughter falls for a young California race driver. Blake longs to make it to the sport's top series, while struggling to find a way to help his deaf son follow in his race driving footsteps.

Pepper Sweeney ... Blake Beckett
Barbara Niven ... Audrey Beckett
Joshua Snyder ... Indy Johansen
Ann Bratton ... Abby Beckett
Patrick Gorman ... 'Pops' Beckett
Mathis Fender ... Brody Beckett
Kaley Bridgeman ... Chevy Beckett
Matt Knudsen ... Wayne
Steven Christie ... Cotton

Please Give


Synopsis
Married antique-dealers, Kate and Alex (Catherine Keener and Oliver Platt) plan on gutting the apartment they own next door to expand their own pad once Andra, the cranky, elderly widow (Ann Guilbert) who lives there, finally dies. When Kate, conflicted with her own guilt, befriends Andra's granddaughters (Rebecca Hall and Amanda Peet), the results are anything but predictable in this devastatingly funny comedy that examines life and death...and everything in between!

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Catherine Keener
• Rebecca Hall
• Amanda Peet
• Ann Morgan Guilbert
• Sarah Steele
• Oliver Platt

Writers:
• Nicole Holofcener

Directors:
• Nicole Holofcener

Nightmare On Elm Street, A (2010)


Synopsis
Five teenage friends living on one street all dream of a sinister man with a disfigured face, a frightening voice and a gardener's glove with knives for fingers. One by one, he terrorizes them within their dreams - where the rules are his and the only way out is to wake up. But when one among them dies, they soon realize that what happens in their dreams happens for real and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake. Buried in their past is a debut that has just come due. To save themselves, they must plunge into the mind of the most twisted nightmare of all: Freddy Krueger. Jackie Earle Haley plays the legendary evildoer in this contemporary reimagining of the seminal horror classic.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Katie Cassidy
• Kellan Lutz
• Kyle Gallner
• Connie Britton
• Rooney Mara
• Clancy Brown
• Jackie Earle Haley
• Thomas Dekker

Writers:
• Wesley Strick
• Eric Heisserer

Producers:
• Michael Bay
• Andrew Form
• Brad Fuller

Directors:
• Samuel Bayer

Mother and Child


Nine Lives director Rodrigo García explores the maternal instinct in Mother and Child through three disparate L.A. women: Karen (Annette Bening), a physical therapist, cares for her ailing mother; Elizabeth (Naomi Watts) works as a high-powered attorney; and Lucy (Kerry Washington), a bakery owner, plans to adopt (only Lucy has a spouse). An opening sequence reveals that Karen, who became pregnant at 14, gave Elizabeth up for adoption. Though the daughter has no desire to track down the mother, Karen has been mourning her loss for decades, never working up the nerve to take the next step. All three turn to the same adoption agency (Cherry Jones, who donned a nun's habit for Broadway's Doubt, plays Sister Joanne). When Karen yields to the advances of a kindly divorcé (Jimmy Smits), and Elizabeth, who's been sleeping with her boss (Samuel L. Jackson) and her married neighbor (Marc Blucas), finds herself with child, their feelings of anger and resentment start to melt. Lucy, meanwhile, has been meeting with a prickly expectant mother (Half Nelson's Shareeka Epps) who may hold the key to her happiness--assuming that a baby will solve all life's problems. García clearly venerates motherhood, but he doesn't let any of his characters off the hook: Karen can be cruel, Elizabeth can be cold, and Lucy can be whiny, but they overcome their lesser natures. There are a few missteps, like a soft-focus montage toward the end, but García manages a sprawling cast with finesse, and his gifted leads have rarely been better

Actors: Annette Bening, Naomi Watts, Samuel L. Jackson, Jimmy Smits, Kerry Washington
Directors: Rodrigo García

How To Train Your Dragon


Synopsis
A winner with fans and critics alike, DreamWorks Animation's How To Train Your Dragon delivers "thrilling action adventure" (Claudia Puig, USA Today) in a timeless movie that's also "funny and touching" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone). Toothless and Hiccup - unlikely friends and heroes - lead dragons and Vikings to unite in the ultimate battle for survival. "DreamWorks has topped itself" (Pete Hammond, Box Office Magazine) with visually stunning animation, an outstanding cast and a wonderful original story.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• America Ferrera
• Kristen Wiig
• Gerard Butler
• Jonah Hill
• Jay Baruchel
• Craig Ferguson
• Christopher Mintz-Plasse
• T.J. Miller

Directors:
• Dean Deblois

Familiar, The


Synopsis
The Familiar is a terrifying story of spiritual manipulation in the life of a lonely gunsmith named Sam. Through his estranged sister-in-law , Laura, who he has not seen since before the death of his wife five years earlier, Sam comes face to face with a very wicked spirit named Rallo. Sam's attraction to Laura blinds him to the fact that Rallo is taking possession of Laura and is intent on destroying them both. Sam must work through his bitterness and choose what he really believes as he battles for his soul and Laura's life.

Cast & Crew
Actors:
• Stephanie Brehms
• Laura Spencer
• Bryan Massey
• Ben Hall
• Jeff West

Writers:
• Miles Hanon

Producers:
• Heather Olive

Directors:
• Miles Hanon