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Movies September 2008 archive

  • The Running Man

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    6

    A wrongly-convicted man must try to survive a public execution gauntlet staged as a TV game show.

  • The Sixth Sense

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    8

    A boy who communicates with spirits that don’t know they’re dead seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist.

  • The Big Blue

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    7

    Enzo and Jacques have known each other for a long time. Their friendship started in their childhood days in the mediterranean…

  • Death Race

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    5

    Ex-con Jensen Ames is forced by the warden of a notorious prison to compete in our post-industrial world’s most popular sport: a car race in which inmates must brutalize and kill one another on the road to victory.

  • Appaloosa

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    7

    Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.

  • Iris

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    6

    True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer’s disease.

  • The Wackness

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    7

    It’s the summer of 1994, and the streets of New York are pulsing with hip-hop. Set against this backdrop, a lonely teenager named Luke Shapiro spends his last summer before university selling marijuana throughout New York City, trading it with his unorthodox psychotherapist for treatment, while having a crush on his stepdaughter.

  • RocknRolla

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    5

    In London, a real-estate scam puts millions of pounds up for grabs, naturally attraction the attention of some of the city’s scrappiest tough guys (Butler, Elba) its more established underworld players (Wilkinson), and others — all of whom are looking to get rich quick.

  • Dan in Real Life

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    8

    Dan Burns is a single father who dedicates his life to his children, but one day he meets Marie at a bookstore. They get to know each other, but then Dan finds out that Marie is actually dating his brother, Mitch Burns.

  • Pineapple Express

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    5

    A stoner and his dealer are forced to go on the run from the police after the pothead witnesses a cop commit a murder.

  • Tropic Thunder

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    7

    Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.

  • Somers Town

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    7

    A black-and-white study of a social environment in London, concentrating on a pair of unlikely new friends and the girl they both fancy.

  • Man on Wire

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    7

    A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit’s daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City’s World Trade Center’s twin towers in 1974, what some consider, “the artistic crime of the century.”

  • Inside I'm Dancing

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    7

    When the kinetic Rory moves into his room in the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, his effect on the home is immediate. Most telling is his friendship with Michael, a young man with cerebral palsy and nearly unintelligible speech. Somehow, Rory understands Michael, and encourages him to experience life outside the confines of home.

  • Little Children

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    8

    The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.

  • The Strangers

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    7

    A young couple staying in an isolated vacation home are terrorized by three unknown assailants.

  • Bangkok Dangerous

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    5

    A hitman who’s in Bangkok to pull off a series of jobs falls for a local woman and bonds with his errand boy.

  • My Left Foot

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    8

    The story of Christy Brown, who was born with cerebral palsy. He learned to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.

  • American Psycho

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    8

    A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.

  • The Ballad of Jack and Rose

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    7

    A father and daughter isolated on an island off the East Coast and living on a once thriving commune grapple with the limits of family and sexuality.