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7/23/2009 9:57:00 PM
Movies: Now Playing - Week of July 24
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• AWAY WE GO

Director: Sam Mendes

Cast: John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Jeff Daniels, Maggie Gyllenhaal

Rated: R for language and some sexual content. Comedy/drama.

An expectant couple travels the U.S. in search of the perfect place to put down roots and raise their family. Along the way, they have misadventures and find fresh connections with an assortment of relatives and old friends.

• •• G-FORCE

Director: Hoyt Yeatman

Voice cast: Nicolas Cage, Steve Buscemi, Will Arnett, Tracy Morgan, Penélope Cruz

Rated: PG for some mild action and rude humor. Animated comedy.

Armed with the latest high-tech spy equipment, highly trained guinea pigs discover that the fate of the world is in their paws.

•• ORPHAN

Director: Jaume Collet-Sera

Cast: Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Isabelle Fuhrman

Rated: R for disturbing violent content, some sexuality and language. Horror/thriller.

A couple looking to adopt find themselves strangely drawn to a young girl named Esther. Almost as soon as they welcome Esther into their home, however, an alarming series of events begins to unfold.

• •• THE UGLY TRUTH

Director: Robert Luketic

Cast: Gerard Butler, Katherine Heigl, Cheryl Hines, Bonnie Somerville

Rated: R for sexual content and language. Comedy.

A hopelessly single morning show producer is annoyed when her bosses team her with a hardcore TV personality who promises to spill the ugly truth on what makes men and women tick.



• THE BROTHERS BLOOM - Siblings who have been working as conmen since they were children plot to steal millions from a lonely, bored heiress. Cast: Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel Weisz. Rated PG-13 for violence, some sensuality and brief strong language. Comedy.

• •• BRUNO - The star of "Borat's" latest creation is a gay Austrian model whose flamboyant antics stir up controversy wherever he goes. Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen. Rated R for pervasive strong and crude sexual content, graphic nudity and language. Comedy.

• CHERI - In this film set in Paris in the years before World War I, the romance between young Chéri and a retired courtesan is threatened by Chéri's mother. Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates, Rupert Friend, Felicity Jones. Rated R for some sexual content and brief drug use. Drama.

• •• THE HANGOVER - The director of "Old School" helms this comedy about a bachelor party gone very, very wrong. When the three groomsmen wake up with pounding headaches, they can't remember a thing, and the groom is nowhere to be found. The more they uncover, the more they realize just how much trouble they're really in. Cast: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha. Rated R for pervasive language, sexual content including nudity, and some drug material. Comedy.

• •• HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE - Hogwarts is no longer the safe haven it once was, and Harry suspects that dangers may even lie within the castle. He works with Dumbledore to find the key to unlock Voldemort's defenses. Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Tom Felton. Rated PG for scary images, some violence, language and mild sensuality. Fantasy/adventure.

• •• ICE AGE 3: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS - Woolly mammoths Manny and Ellie are expecting their first baby, while Sid the sloth tries an unconventional way of starting a family that gets him into trouble. Voice cast: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah. Rated PG for some mild rude humor and peril. Animated comedy.

•• I LOVE YOU, BETH COOPER - A nerd proclaims his love for most popular girl in school, and she decides to show him the best night of his life. Cast: Hayden Panettiere, Paul Rust. Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual content, language, some teen drinking and drug references, and brief violence. Comedy.

• MY LIFE IN RUINS - Discouraged by her lack of direction in life, Georgia works as a travel guide, leading a rag-tag group of tourists as she tries to show them the beauty of her native Greece - and gains a new perspective while doing so. Cast: Nia Vardalos, Richard Dreyfuss, Maria Adanez, Sheila Bernette. Rated PG-13 for sexual content. Romantic comedy.

•• MY SISTER'S KEEPER - Parents who learn their daughter has a fatal condition decide to secure vital bone marrow donations by having another child. Their controversial action raises ethical and legal questions. Cast: Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Alec Baldwin. Rated PG-13 for mature thematic content, some disturbing images, sensuality, language and brief teen drinking. Drama.

•• THE PROPOSAL - When high-powered book editor Margaret faces deportation to her native Canada, she claims that she's engaged to her assistant Andrew, whom she's tormented for years. He agrees to participate in the charade, but with a few conditions of his own. Cast: Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Malin Akerman, Craig T. Nelson. Rated PG-13 for sexual content, nudity and language. Romantic comedy.

• •• PUBLIC ENEMIES - Johnny Depp stars as legendary gangster John Dillinger and Christian Bale plays FBI agent Melvin Purvis in this crime drama from "Heat" helmer Michael Mann. Cast: Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Jason Clarke. Rated R for gangster violence and some language. Drama.

• •• TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN - Evil Decepticon forces return to Earth on a mission to take Sam Witwicky prisoner after the young hero learns the truth about the ancient origins of the Transformers. Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson. Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi action violence, language, some crude and sexual material, and brief drug material. Sci-fi/action.

•• UP - A grumpy old man finally fulfills his lifelong dream of a great adventure when he ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies away to the wilds of South America. But he discovers that his biggest nightmare has stowed away on the trip: an overly optimistic 8-year-old Wilderness Explorer named Russell. Voice cast: Ed Asner, Jordan Nagai, Christopher Plummer, John Ratzenberger. Rated PG for some peril and action. Animated comedy.







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