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April 19, 2013

Save the Date




Synopsis
Sometimes you have to break a heart to be true to your own

After an ill-timed and very public marriage proposal, fiercely independent Sarah (Lizzy Caplan, Hot Tub Time Machine, 127 Hours) breaks up with her overeager boyfriend Kevin (Geoffrey Arend, (500) Days of Summer, Devil). Sarah turns to her sister Beth (Alison Brie, Community, Mad Men) for support, but Beth is too busy obsessing over the details of her own wedding to Kevin's band mate, Andrew (Martin Starr, Adventureland, Freaks and Geeks). When Sarah suddenly finds herself caught up in an intense rebound romance with the adorable Jonathan (Mark Webber, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World), she is forced to examine her own fears of commitment and vulnerability and decide if she's better off staying safely single or risking everything on love. By turns funny, sad, and sweet, Save The Date is a heartfelt and sincere comedy about the familial and romantic bonds that hold us together.


Cast
Timothy Busfield
Mark Webber
Martin Starr
Melonie Diaz
Lizzy Caplan
Geoffrey Arend
Alison Brie


Director
Michael Mohan

Promised Land



Synopsis
Matt Damon stars in Promised Land, the compelling contemporary drama based on an original screenplay by John Krasinski and Damon and directed by Gus Van Sant (Milk, Good Will Hunting). Corporate salesman Steve Butler (Damon) has been dispatched to the rural town of McKinley with his sales partner (Frances McDormand) to offer much-needed relief to the economically hard-hit residents in exchange for drilling rights to their properties. What seems like an easy job for the duo quickly becomes complicated by a respected schoolteacher (Hal Holbrook), a slick environmental activist (Krasinski), and Steve's interest in a local woman (Rosemarie DeWitt). As they grapple with a surprising array of both open hearts and closed doors, the outsiders soon discover the strength of an American small town at a crossroads.

Cast
Matt Damon
John Krasinski
Frances McDormand
Rosemarie DeWitt

Director
Gus Van Sant

Love is All You Need



A hairdresser who has lost her hair to cancer finds out her husband is having an affair, travels to Italy for her daughter's wedding and meets a widower who still blames the world for the loss of his wife.

Director: Susanne Bier
Writers: Anders Thomas Jensen (screenplay), Susanne Bier (story), 1 more credit »
Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Trine Dyrholm, Kim Bodnia

Love and Honor



When a young soldier in Vietnam gets dumped by his hometown girl, he and his best friend decide to go AWOL and return to the States to win her back.

Director: Danny Mooney
Writers: Jim Burnstein, Garrett K. Schiff
Stars: Liam Hemsworth, Austin Stowell, Teresa Palmer

Gangster Squad



Synopsis
Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and-if he has his way-every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It's enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop...except, perhaps, for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O'Mara (Josh Brolin) and Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling), who come together to try to tear Cohen's world apart.


Cast
Sean Penn
Nick Nolte
Josh Brolin
Wade Williams
Holt McCallany
Ryan Gosling
Emma Stone
Ambyr Childers

Director
Ruben Fleischer

Frankenstein Theory



Synopsis
What if the most chilling novel of all time was actually based on a true account of a horrific experiment gone awry? When he is suspended from his university job for his outlandish ideas, Professor John Venkenheim leads a documentary film crew to the rim of the Arctic Circle in a desperate effort to vindicate his academic reputation. His theory: Mary Shelley's ghastly story, Frankenstein, is, in fact, a work of non-fiction disguised as fantasy.

In the vast, frozen wilderness, Venkenheim and his team search for the legendary monster, a creature mired in mystery and drenched in blood. What they find is an unspeakable truth more terrifying than any fiction - a nightmare from which there is no waking.

Cast
Heather Stephens
Christine Lakin
Kris Lemche
Brian Henderson
Timothy V. Murphy
Joe Egender
Eric Zuckerman
Roger Morrissey

Director
Andrew Weiner

Broken City



Synopsis
Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe and Catherine Zeta Jones star in this gripping crime thriller where everyone has a motive and no one can be trusted.

Seven years after being forced to resign as a New York police officer, private detective Billy Taggart (Wahlberg) takes on his toughest case yet: following the wife (Zeta-Jones) of the city's hard-nosed mayor (Crowe), who's convinced she's cheating on him. But by the time the mayor reveals his true intentions, Billy is already in too deep. Now, with his freedom - and quite possibly his life - on the line, Billy will risk it all in a desperate bid to expose the truth, and seek redemption in a city where second chances don't come cheap.

Cast
Russell Crowe
Mark Wahlberg
Kyle Chandler
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Barry Pepper
Jeffrey Wright
Alona Tal
Natalie Martinez

Director
Allen Hughes