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Please Give
(M)
2010
Kate (Catherine Keener) has a lot on her mind. There‘s the ethics problem of buying furniture on the cheap at estate sales and marking it up at her trendy Manhattan store (and how much mark-up can she get away with?). There‘s the materialism problem of not wanting her teenage daughter (Sarah Steele) to want the expensive things that Kate wants. There‘s the marriage problem of sharing a partnership in parenting, business, and life with her husband Alex (Oliver Platt) but sensing doubt nibbling at the foundations. And there‘s Kate‘s free-floating 21st century malaise - the problem of how to live well and be a good person when poverty, homelessness, and sadness are always right outside the...

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2010
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It's the 21st century, but the gods of Mount Olympus and assorted monsters have walked out of the pages of high school student Percy Jackson's Greek mythology texts and into his life. And they're not happy: Zeus' lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. Even more troubling is the sudden disappearance of Percy's mother. As Percy finds himself caught between angry and battling gods, he and his friends embark on a cross-country adventure to catch the true lightning thief, save Percy's mum, and unravel a mystery more powerful than the gods themselves.

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It's the 21st century, but the gods of Mount Olympus and assorted monsters have walked out of the pages of high school student Percy Jackson's Greek mythology texts and into his life. And they're not happy: Zeus' lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. Even more troubling is the sudden disappearance of Percy's mother. As Percy finds himself caught between angry and battling gods, he and his friends embark on a cross-country adventure to catch the true lightning thief, save Percy's mum, and unravel a mystery more powerful than the gods themselves.

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An adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's story, where Max (Max Records), a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, creates his own world - a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler.

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An adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's story, where Max (Max Records), a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, creates his own world - a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler.

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Genova
(M)
2009
The happy existence of Joe (Colin Firth) and his young family is turned upside down in an instant when a horrific car accident takes the life of his wife. In search of a fresh start, Joe decides to leave behind his home in the United States - which holds too many memories of a once-happy family - and relocate himself and his two young daughters to the exotic town of Genova, Italy. But contrary to the new beginnings he had hoped to find, it appears that the thick fog of grief hanging over their household continues to afflict them all.

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Theatre director Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is mounting a new play. His life catering to suburban blue-hairs at the local regional theatre in Schenectady, New York is looking bleak. His wife Adele (Catherine Keener) has left him to pursue her painting in Berlin, taking their young daughter Olive (Sadie Goldstein) with her. His therapist, Madeleine Gravis (Hope Davis), is better at plugging her best-seller than she is at counselling him. A new relationship with the alluringly candid Hazel (Samantha Morton) has prematurely run aground. And a mysterious condition is systematically shutting down each of his autonomic functions, one by one.

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What Just Happened is a winningly sharp comedy about two nail-biting, back-stabbing, roller-coaster weeks in the world of a middle-aged Hollywood producer - as he tries to juggle an actual life with an outrageous series of crises in his day job. Ben (Robert De Niro) is already in over his head trying to balance the tug-of-war of having two ex-wives and two different families with his latest business venture - the boldly "visionary" movie Fiercely starring Sean Penn (Sean Penn) - when everything that can go wrong goes completely screwy.

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Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, 22-year-old Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch) instead walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people. Was Christopher McCandless a heroic adventurer or a naïve idealist, a rebellious 1990s Thoreau or another lost American son, a fearless risk-taker or a tragic figure who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature? Each strand of his journey is woven into Sean Penn's screen adaptation of Jon Krakauer's acclaimed best-seller, INTO THE WILD.

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Hamlet 2
(MA15+)
2008
One high school drama teacher is about to make a huge number 2. In this irreverent comedy, a failed actor turned worse high school drama teacher rallies his Tucson, AZ students as he conceives and stages politically incorrect musical sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet.

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Andy Stitzer (Steve Carrell) has a nice life complete with an action figure collection and a cushy job at an electronics store. After four decades on the planet, Andy Stitzer has still not had sex. He's had a pretty good life in most ways, but there's that one rather significant experience that has given him the slip. When his workmates find out his secret, they think it's time things changed. When Andy meets Trish (Catherine Keener) and Andy's pals start to hold out hope for him - that is until they discover the arrangement that he and Trish have made concerning their relationship...

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Into the Wild
(M)
2007
Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, 22-year-old Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch) instead walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people. Was Christopher McCandless a heroic adventurer or a naïve idealist, a rebellious 1990s Thoreau or another lost American son, a fearless risk-taker or a tragic figure who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature? Each strand of his journey is woven into Sean Penn's screen adaptation of Jon Krakauer's acclaimed best-seller, INTO THE WILD.

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Andy Stitzer (Steve Carrell) has a nice life complete with an action figure collection and a cushy job at an electronics store. After four decades on the planet, Andy Stitzer has still not had sex. He's had a pretty good life in most ways, but there's that one rather significant experience that has given him the slip. When his workmates find out his secret, they think it's time things changed. When Andy meets Trish (Catherine Keener) and Andy's pals start to hold out hope for him - that is until they discover the arrangement that he and Trish have made concerning their relationship...

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Three Couples. A dozen relationships. A million problems. Theater instructor Jerry starts an affair with Mary, and that starts a chain of events that affect their respective partners Terri and Barry and other characters in the film, creating a web of relationships.

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Jennifer Aniston, Catherine Keener, Frances McDormand and Joan Cusak star in Friends With Money – the story of four best friends whose comfortable lives are thrown off balance as the realities of early middle age set in. It paints a painfully hilarious portrait of modern life in the class-sensitive West side of Los Angeles. Written and directed by Nicole Holofcener (Lovely and Amazing), Friends With Money was the Opening Night Selection at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.

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Capote
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2005
In November, 1959, the shocking murder of a smalltown Kansas family captures the imagination of Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman), famed author of "Breakfast at Tiffany's". With his childhood friend Harper Lee (Catherine Keener), writer of the soon-to-be published "To Kill a Mockingbird", Capote sets out to investigate, winning over the locals despite his flamboyant appearance and style. When he forms a bond with the killers and their execution date nears, the writing of "In Cold Blood", a book that will change the course of American Literature, takes a drastic toll on Capote, changing him in ways he never imagined.

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Jack (Daniel Day-Lewis) lives on the site of his abandoned island commune with his 16-year-old daughter Rose (Camilla Belle). Since the breakup of the commune, Jack has sheltered Rose completely from the influences of the outside world, but now his fatal illness and Rose's emerging womanhood pose troubling questions about the days ahead. A man who has lived a life motivated by environmentalism, Jack now rages at those who do not share his aesthetic, like developer Marty Rance (Beau Bridges), who is building a housing tract on the edge of his property. When Jack invites his girlfriend Kathleen (Catherine Keener) and her sons Rodney (Ryan McDonald) and Thaddius (Paul Dano) to live with...
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A satirical comedy that looks at the independent film business, tossing up some shrewd and insightful jabs at Hollywood and the movie trade along the way. Nick Reve (Steve Buscemi) is struggling to direct a small indie flick with a shoestring budget on little more than a wing and a prayer. His leading lady is having a crisis of conscience, his leading man has an ego problem, and his crew have at least as many neuroses as goatees and berets. When the action spills outside of the scenes and everything goes wrong, it makes for an entertaining day on the set.
1995
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The 40 Year Old Virgin
(MA15+)
2005
Andy Stitzer (Steve Carrell) has a nice life complete with an action figure collection and a cushy job at an electronics store. After four decades on the planet, Andy Stitzer has still not had sex. He's had a pretty good life in most ways, but there's that one rather significant experience that has given him the slip. When his workmates find out his secret, they think it's time things changed. When Andy meets Trish (Catherine Keener) and Andy's pals start to hold out hope for him - that is until they discover the arrangement that he and Trish have made concerning their relationship...

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The Interpreter
(M)
2005
New York’s United Nations building has been featured prominently in many movies - most notably, perhaps, in Hitchcock’s classic North By Northwest - but The Interpreter is the first film to be allowed to actually shoot inside the building - the ideal setting for a political suspense thriller. Nicole Kidman stars as African-born UN interpreter, Silvia Broome who overhears a plot to assassinate an African head of state who is scheduled to address the General Assembly. Now a target herself, Silvia is desperate to prevent the murder if she can survive long enough to get someone to believe her. Assigned to protect her is federal agent, Tobin Keller (Sean Penn), but as...

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