WHIP IT!

WHIP IT!

The Story:
Bliss Cavendar (Ellen Page) “an indie-rock loving misfit” who is always being pushed into entering beauty pageants by her mother (Marcia Gay Harden).

Bliss tries out as Babe Ruthless for a team named the Hurl Scouts, where she hopes to skate alongside the likes of Maggie Mayhem (Kristen Wiig) and Smashley Simpson (Drew Barrymore). But she winds up finding herself after joining the team...

Starring:
Ellen Page, Drew Barrymore, Juliette Lewis, Marcia Gay Harden, Kristen Wiig, Zoe Bell, Jimmy Fallon, Alia Shawkat.

Directed By:
Drew Barrymore

Release:
2009

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SETEM

s e t e m (Malaysia)

The Story:
A stamp that was wrongly designed was thrown away by the Malacca Governor, Lord Arthur Barring in 1847. His grandchildren decided to keep it and preserve for future generations. In 2008, his grandson Charles Barring IV decides to exhibit the valuable heritage of his ancestors, called The Barring Stamp at the Malacca Museum.

The Barring Stamp exhibition attracts few thieves who are interested to steal the stamp valued at $4 million. Orphans Sid (Rashidi Ishak) and Joe (Afdlin Shauki) are instructed by their orphanage owner and adopted father, Pak Ramli (Datuk Aziz Sattar) to steal the stamp in order to save their current orphanage from closing down. Their plan sounds easy in the beginning but it gets more complicated as more people join the race to steal the stamp.

Next is Piranha Lim (Frank Lewis), who is an illegal moneylender wants to steal the stamp and keep for himself. And the other list of thieves are security guard Vellu (Sathiya), illegal immigrant Aryanto (Isma Yusof) and his friend Marcello (Harun Salim Bachik), a blind man Iskandar (Que Haidar) and his sister Alliya (Vanidah Imran). Upon receiving the stamp Alliya use it to post a letter and the postman (Aziz M. Osman) are now the final target of the thieves to steal the stamp. Who will get the stamp and what will happen to all of them in the end?

Starring:
Afdlin Shauki, Vanidah Imran, Que Haidar, Bront Palarae, Rashidi Ishak, Sathiya, Datuk Aziz Sattar, Datuk Jalaluddin Hasan, Harun Salim Bachik, Adam Corrie Lee, Aziz M. Osman, Isma Yusof, Diana Danielle, Chelsia Ng, Kenchana Devi Segeran, Azwan Ali, David Teo, Henzi, Shoffi Jikan, Naeim Ghalili, Frank Lewis

Directed By:
Kabir Bhatia

Release:
2009

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E-TIM TAI NAE

E-TIM TAI NAE (Itemi) (Thailand)

The Story:
Ei-Ting (Udom Taepanitch), participating in a boxing show in Pattaya. He meets a Japanese tourist named Itemi (Asuka Yanagi) or E-Tim and falls head over heels for her. At the end, Ei-Ting has to prove his love for E-Tim and to prove.

Starring:
Udom Taepanitch, Chartchai Ngam-San, Asuka Yanagi

Directed By:
Yuthlert Sippapak

Release:
2008

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PRICELESS (HORS DE PRIX)

PRICELESS (hors de prix) (French)

The Story:
Gorgeous Irène (Audrey Tautou) loves her life as the girlfriend of an ultra-wealthy, much-older man (Vernon Dobtcheff). The clothes, the shoes, the food, the five-star hotels! But he gets drunk and passes out on the night of her birthday, and so late that night she heads to the hotel bar for some company. What she finds is an empty bar--no barman on duty--and an oddly handsome young man (Gad Elmaleh) in a tuxedo, asleep on one of the lounge's couches.

She mistakes him for a rich playboy and when he awakes, the smitten employee neglects to correct her. They get drunk and share a night of passion in the hotel’s unoccupied royal suite.

A year later, Irène and Jacques return to the resort, with the same result, but this time Jacques learns of her infidelity and cuts her loose. Jean, by now head over heels for Irène, follows her to Nice where she almost bankrupts him with her demands, practically daring him to walk away. On the verge of being thrown out of his hotel for a bounced payment, Jean is only saved by the intervention of Madeleine (Marie-Christine Adam), a mature woman who takes him in as her toyboy.

Jean adapts to the gigolo business well and with Irène newly installed with her latest mark, they become equals, willing prostitutes, with Irène schooling Jean in the tricks of their trade (sulking, staring off into the distance and leaving sentences unfinished), for which he profits to the tune of a €30,000 watch and motor scooter. They become emotionally close yet are kept physically apart by their circumstances, as she remains addicted to the lifestyle, while he is simply addicted to her. Will they ever be free and together?

Starring:
Audrey Tautou, Gad Elmaleh, Marie-Christine Adam, Vernon Dobtcheff, Jacques Spiesser, Didier Brice, Annelise Hesme, Jean-Michel Lahmi, Blandine Pélissier

Directed By:
Pierre Salvadori

Release:
2008

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THE GIRL NEXT DOOR

THE GIRL NEXT DOOR

The Story:
Inspired by true events. Set in 1958 New Jersey, Shortly after losing their parents in a deadly car accident, Meg Laughlin (Blythe Auffarth) and her younger sister, Susan (Madeline Taylor), are sent to live in the Indiana home of Ruth Chandler (Blanche Baker) and her three sons, Willie (Graham Patrick Martin), Donny (Benjamin Ross Kaplan), and Ralphie (Austin Williams).

Upon arriving in the quiet suburban neighborhood, Meg quickly forges a warm bond with local neighbor boy David Moran (Daniel Manche). Strangely, Ruth seems to harbor some sort of unknown grudge against her pretty young charge, and it isn't long before events in the Chandler home begin to take an ominous turn. Now, as Ruth Chandler begins her slow descent into madness, the basement of a typical middle-class home is about to become the scene of a crime that would shock and repulse an entire nation.

Starring:
Blythe Auffarth, Daniel Manche, William Atherton, Blanche Baker, Grant Show, Madeline Taylor, Austin Williams, Benjamin Ross Kaplan, Graham Patrick Martin.

Directed By:
Gregory Wilson

Release:
2007

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THE WACKNESS

The WACKNESS

The Story:

It's the summer of 1994, and the streets of New York. Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck) just graduated high school, and now he's perfectly content with spending his summer fantasizing about girls on the subway, staying away from his parents constant bickering and selling pot out of an ices cart. One day when Luke returns home he finds his parents arguing over money and are probably getting evicted. Luke starts dealing more weed to make money for his family.

Having no friends of his own, and his lack of a future in any career, Josh's only real connection to the real world and its harsh realities, comes via his therapy sessions with Dr. Jeffrey Squires (Sir Ben Kingsley), a well-to-do, yet bored middle-aged shrink, whose life isn't exactly much better than that of his patients.

The doctor proposes Luke trade him weed for therapy sessions,While he tries to help Luke figure out his young life, he also seeks to recapture the carefree essence of his lost adolescence, so to escape the hapless marriage he has to wife Kristen (Famke Janssen), and non-existent relationship to his step-daughter Stephanie (Olivia Thirlby).

Deciding to go off exploring the city one hot, fine afternoon Luke and the doctor share each other's regrets, hopes, and experiences, all the while meeting some of Luke's more colorful clientele, Union (Mary Kate Olsen) a flighty 90's flowerchild, Percy a Rastafarian dealer (Method Man) and Eleanor (Jane Adams).

Through repeated meetings with Dr. Squires, Luke soon starts hanging out with Stephanie, who enjoys Luke's company, for his simplicity and his willingness to pay attention to her. Together they spend a good portion of the summer of '94 exploring their life options, their taste in drugs, as well as each other, in a series of awkward sexual encounters.

When Luke becomes a bit too infatuated with the lovely Stephanie. She shrinks back from him, not wishing to get involved in any sort of relationship. This heartbreak causes much turmoil for young Luke, who of course seeks out the good hippie doctor, who himself is slowly coming to terms with the end of his marriage, and is facing an uncertain future.

Starring:
Ben Kingsley, Famke Janssen, Josh Peck, Olivia Thirlby, Mary-Kate Olsen, Jane Adams, Method Man, Aaron Yoo, Talia Balsam, David Wohl, Bob Dishy, Joanna Merlin, Shannon Briggs, Roy Milton Davis, Alexander Flores.

Directed By:
Jonathan Levine

Release:
2009

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LAID TO REST

LAID TO REST

The Story:
The girl (Bobbi Sue Luther) trapped in a casket. When she manages to get herself out, she realizes she has a severe case of amnesia, so she can’t recall how she got in the coffin, or who she is. She escapes from a funeral home being pursued by ChromeSkull (Nick Principe), an unstoppable manic armed with a metal skull mask, a shoulder-mounted video camera, and a ferocious for slaughter.

Fleeing the morgue, the Girl finds herself in an isolated rural area and hits the road, where she runs into Tucker (Kevin Gage). Tucker drives the hysterical Girl back to his home, where he and his wife (Lena Headey) set her up for the night.

However, ChromeSkull is hellbent on finishing what he started. The Girl realizes that she must outsmart the killer and survive the night...

Starring:
Bobbi Sue Luther, Kevin Gage, Lena Headey, Sean Whalen, Thomas Dekker, Nick Principe

Directed By:
Robert Hall

Release:
2009

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WELCOME HOME ROSCOE JENKINS

WELCOME HOME ROSCOE JENKINS

The Story:
RJ Stevens (Martin Lawrence), who left behind his modest Southern upbringing and family name to transform into a self-help guru dispensing his “Team of Me” philosophy to millions of adoring fans. With a reality-TV-star fiancée and money to burn, there’s no piece of the Hollywood dream RJ hasn’t achieved.

After his parents (James Earl Jones and Margaret Avery) request that he come home for their 50th wedding anniversary, Jenkins packs up his high maintenance, spoiled princess of a fiancee Bianca (Joy Bryant) and his 10-year-old-son Jamaal (Damani Roberts) and heads back to Georgia. Ready to impress his down home kin with how much he's changed, RJ will prove he's not the walking disaster they used to pick on.

At least, that's the plan...But when his crazy, lovable family, which consist of: Roscoe's big brother, Otis (Clarke Duncan), his sly cousin, Reggie (Mike Epps) and his smart-mouth sister, Betty (Mo'Nique), calls him out on his big-city attitude and challenges him at every turn, he is forced to take a hard look at the man he's become.

He may be a superstar in L.A., but he’s just one of the guys in Dry Springs as folks say.

Starring:
Martin Lawrence, James Earl Jones, Margaret Avery, Joy Bryant, Louis CK, Michael Clarke Duncan, Cedric the Entertainer, Mo'Nique, Mike Epps.

Directed By:
Malcolm D. Lee

Release:
2008

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