Good

Click here for Movie Trailer

John Halder is a good, decent individual with family problems. A German literature professor in the 1930s, Halder explores his personal circumstances in a novel advocating compassionate euthanasia. When the book is unexpectedly enlisted by powerful political figures in support of government propaganda, Halder finds his career rising in an optimistic current of nationalism and prosperity. Yet with Halder's change in fortune, his seemingly inconsequential decisions potentially jeopardize the people in his life with devastating effects.

Cast
Viggo Mortensen as John Halder/ Halder
Jason Isaacs as Maurice Gluckstein
Jodie Whittaker as Anne
Romola Garai as Anne
Steven MacKintosh as Freddie
Mark Strong as Bouhler
Steven Elder as Adolf Eichmann
Gemma Jones as Mother/ Mother
Anastasia Hille as Helen
Ruth Gemmell as Elisabeth
Ralph Riach as Brunau
Steven Elder as Adolf Eichmann
Ruth Gemmell as Elizabeth

Detail Info
Director Vicente Amorim
Writers
Screenplay: John Wrathall
SourceL C.P. Taylor
Producer Simon Fawcett, Peter Hampden, Miriam Segal, Michel Morales, Kornel Sipos
Editor John Wilson
Running Time 1 hr. 35 min.
Release Date Dec 31st, 2008 (limited)
Distributors ThinkFilm
Country Germany

Nothing But The Truth

Click here for Movie Trailer

Washington, DC political journalist Rachel Armstrong writes an explosive story about a government scandal in which she reveals the name of a covert CIA agent. When a special government prosecutor demands she divulge her source, she refuses and finds herself behind bars, struggling to defend the principles she has based her career upon.

Cast
Kate Beckinsale as Rachel Armstrong
Matt Dillon as Patton DuBois
Vera Farmiga as Erica Van Doren
Edie Falco
Alan Alda as Alan Burnside
David Schwimmer as Ray Armstrong
Noah Wyle as Avril Aaronson
Angela Bassett as Bonnie Brillstein
Peter Coyote as Riggens
Kristen Shaw as Angel
Harry J. Lennix
Courtney B. Vance as Agent O’Hara
Julie Ann Emery as Agent Boyd
Michael O Neill as CIA Director
Angelica Torn as Molly Meyers


Detail Info
Director Rod Lurie
Writer Rod Lurie
Producers Dennis A. Brown, David C. Glasser, William J. Immerman, James Spies, Marc Frydman, Bob Yari, Rod Lurie
Editor Sarah Boyd
Music Larry Groupé (II), Kevin J. Edelman
Running Time 1 hr. 47 min.
Release Date Dec 17th, 2008 (limited)
Distributors Yari Film Group

Waltz With Bashir

Click here for Movie Trailer

Documents the filmmaker's journey toward discovering the truth about an Israeli Army mission he participated in during the first Lebanon War of the early 1980s that left him with a loss of memory about the events. The long-forgotten images begin to resurface as the director interviews old friends and comrades around the world.

Cast
Ari Folman
Ori Sivan

Detail Info
Director Ari Folman
Writer Ari Folman
Producers Ari Folman, Serge Lalou, Gerhard Meixner, Roman Paul, Thierry Garrel
Music Max Richter
Running Time 1 hr. 27 min.
Release Date Dec 25th, 2008 (limited)
Distributors Sony Pictures Classics

Last Chance Harvey

New Yorker Harvey Shine is on the verge of losing his dead-end job as a jingle writer. Warned by his boss that he has just one more chance to deliver, Harvey goes to London for a weekend to attend his daughter's wedding but promises to be back on Monday morning to make an important meeting--or else. Harvey arrives in London only to learn his daughter has chosen to have her stepfather walk her down the aisle instead of him. Doing his best to hide his devastation, he leaves the wedding before the reception in hopes of getting to the airport on time, but misses his plane anyway. When he calls his boss to explain, he is fired on the spot. Drowning his sorrows at the airport bar, Harvey strikes up a conversation with Kate, a slightly prickly, 40-something employee of the Office of National Statistics. Kate, whose life is limited to work, the occasional humiliating blind date and endless phone calls from her smothering mother, is touched by Harvey, who finds himself energized by her intelligence and compassion. The growing connection between the pair inspires both as they unexpectedly transform one another's lives.

Cast
Dustin Hoffman as Harvey Shine
Emma Thompson as Kate Walker
Kathy Baker as Jean
James Brolin as Brian
Eileen Atkins as Maggie
Richard Schiff as Marvin
Liane Balaban as Susan
Rhydian Jones as Check-In Steward One
Bronagh Gallagher (II) as Oonagh
Jeremy Sheffield as Matt
Daniel Lapaine as Scott
Patrick Baladi as Simon
Adam James as Josh Hillman
Michael Landes as Peter Turner
Jamie Sives as Doctor Butler
Kate Harper as Jill
Alex Avery as Andrew
Tim Ahern (II) as Barry
Nadia Cameron as Attractive Woman
Adam Astill as Business Man
Andrea Harris as Check-In Steward Two
Leslie Randall as Mild Mannered Mike
Ginny Holder as Nurse
Robert Jezek as Polish Neighbor
Heather Bleasdale as Receptionist

Detail Info
Director Joel Hopkins
Producers Jawal Nga, Tim Perell, Nicola Usborne
Editors Jonathan Sales, Robin Sales, Dom Thomson
Writer Joel Hopkins
Running Time 1 hr. 39 min.
Release Date

• Dec 25th, 2008 (limited)
• Jan 23rd, 2009 (wide)

Distributors Overture Films

$9.99 - Movie Trailer

$9.99

Click here for Movie trailer

Have you ever wondered what is the meaning of life? Why do we exist? The answer to this vexing question is now within your reach. The booklet, printed on the finest paper, contains illuminating exquisite color pictures and could be yours for a mere $9.99. The ad alters the life of Dave Peck--unemployed, 28-years-old and still living at home. His story, along with several others are woven together, examining the meaning of hell and heaven on earth.

Cast
Barry Otto as Albert
Leeanna Walsman as Tanita
Tom Budge (II) as Bisley
Henry Nixon as Drazen
Samuel Johnson as Dave Peck
Joel Edgerton as Voice of Ron
Ben Mendelsohn as Voice of Lenny Peck
Claudia Karvan as Voice of Michelle
Anthony LaPaglia as Voice of Jim Peck
Geoffrey Rush

Detail Info
Director Tatia Rosenthal
Writers Tatia Rosenthal, Etgar Keret, Nicola Usborne
Producers Emile Sherman, Amir Harel
Running Time 1 hr. 18 min.
Release Date Dec 12th, 2008 (limited)
Distributors Regent Releasing
Country Israel

What Doesn't Kill You

Click here for Movie Trailer

Brian and Paulie are two young punks running loose on the hard streets of South Boston. Coming from separate but equally broken homes, the boys bond makes them brothers. They do whatever it takes to survive, living by the code of their dog eat dog neighborhood. As Brian and Paulie get older, petty crimes and misdemeanors grow into more serious offenses. Eventually, they fall under sway to the organized crime boss Pat Kelly who runs the felonious backroom businesses and illicit trades in Southie. They also find themselves the targets of unwanted attention from Detective Moran, one of Bostonâ¿¿s finest. And Brian in particular becomes lost in haze of drugs and rebellion. Even the love he has for his wife Stacy and his children isnâ¿¿t enough to redeem him. In time, the friends find themselves in jail--just a part of doing business on the mean streets they call home. Brian and Paulie are incarcerated long enough to learn a few lessons, but will they lead to changed lives on the outside? A storm of trouble is brewing: Paulie has big plans to liberate them from their life of crime--just one more job, one last heist--a bold and potentially violent daylight robbery. But Brian has used his time in jail to make amends to his family and get clean. When Paulie comes to him for help, Brian must face the biggest challenge to his code of honor that he could ever imagine: stand by his friend or salvage his family--he cannot do both.

Cast
Mark Ruffalo as Brian
Ethan Hawke as Paulie
Amanda Peet as Stacy
Jay Giannone as Matt
Mandy Olsen as Patty
Donnie Wahlberg as Detective Moran
Lindsey J. McKeon as Nicole
Brian Goodman as Pat
Will Lyman as Sully
Elizangela
Brian Scannell as Eddie 'Details"
Tom Kemp (II) as Captain Stover
Dennis Lynch
Danny Naten as Officer Callahan
Bo Cleary
Rich Skinner as Chappy
Lenny Clarke as Hogie
Angela Featherstone as Katie

Detail Info
Director Brian Goodman
Writers Brian Goodman, Donnie Wahlberg, Paul T. Murray
Producers William J. Immerman, Peter McIntosh (II), Bob Yari, Marc Frydman, Rod Lurie
Music Alex Wurman, Richard Glasser
Running Time 1 hr. 40 min.
Release Date Dec 12th, 2008 (limited)
Distributors Yari Film Group
Country USA

Wendy and Lucy

Click here for Movie Trailer
Click here for Q&A at 46th New York Film Festival

Wendy Carol is driving to Ketchikan, Alaska in the hopes of a summer of lucrative work at the Northwestern Fish cannery, and the start of a new life with her dog, Lucy. When her car breaks down in Oregon, however, the thin fabric of her financial situation comes apart, and she confronts a series of increasingly dire economic decisions, with far ranging repercussions for herself and Lucy.

Cast
Michelle Williams as Wendy
Walter Dalton as Security Guard
Larry Fessenden as Man in Park
Will Oldham (II) as Icky
Will Patton as Mechanic
John Robinson as Andy

Detail Info
Director Kelly Reichardt
Producers Joshua Blum, Todd Haynes, Phil Morrison, Rajen Savjani, Larry Fessenden, Neil Kopp, Anish Savjani
Writers

• Screenplay: Jonathan Raymond, Kelly Reichardt
• Source: Jonathan Raymond

Editor Kelly Reichardt
Running Time 1 hr. 20 min.
Release Date Dec 10th, 2008 (limited)

Ciao

Click here for Movie Trailer

A man dies very unexpectedly and leaves behind two men: Jeff, his best friend and Andrea, an Italian he's been corresponding with online. Jeff informs Andrea of Mark's passing; Andrea writes back to express his shock and sympathies. On a whim, they continue their correspondence and a rapport grows between them. They eventually meet, where they extend their e-mail exchanges into more personal and intimate conversations. They talk about their respective countries, their jobs, their families, their lives. Mostly, they talk about Mark. What began as a tragedy that linked two strangers from different ends of the world becomes a deeply realized friendship that may change their lives forever.

Running Time: 1 hr. 27 min.
Release Date: December 5th, 2008 (limited)

The Black Balloon

Click here for Movie Trailer

Thomas and his family who move to a new home where he starts at a new school. All he wants to do is to fit in, but when his pregnant mother has to take things easy, he is put in charge of his autistic older brother, Charlie. Thomas, with the help of his new girlfriend, Jackie, then faces his biggest challenge yet. Charlie's unusual antics take Thomas on an emotional journey that causes pent-up frustrations towards his brother to pour out.

Cast
Toni Collette Maggie
Gemma Ward Jackie
Firass Dirani Russell
Ngoc Phan Teacher's Aide

Detail Info
Producers Sally Chesher, Toni Collette, Mark Gooder, Tristram Miall, Sally Ayre-Smith, Mark Turnbull
Editor Veronika Jenet
Music Michael Yezerski
Running Time 1 hr. 37 min.
Release Date Dec 5th, 2008
Distributors NeoClassics Films
Country Australia

Local Color

Click here for Movie Trailer
A successful artist looks back with loving memories on the summer of his defining year, 1974. A talented, but troubled eighteen year old art student befriends an elderly alcoholic genius painter who has turned his back on not only art, but life. The two form what appears to be at first a tenuous relationship. The kid wants to learn all the secrets the master has locked away inside his head and heart. Time has not been kind to the old master. His life appears pointless to him until the kid rekindles his interest in his work and ultimately gives him the will to live. Together, they give one another a priceless gift. The kid learns to see the world through the master's eyes. And the master learns to see life through the eyes of innocence again.

Cast
Ray Liotta as John Talia Sr.
Trevor Morgan as John Talia
Armin Mueller-Stahl as Nicholi Seoff
Samantha Mathis
Ron Perlman
Charles Durning
Diana Scarwid

Detail Info
Director George Gallo
Writers George Gallo
Producers David Permut, Dean Blagg, James W. Evangelatos, Alex Kirkwood, Mark Sennet (II), Julie Lott
Editor Malcolm Campbell
Music Chris Boardman
Running Time 1 hr. 47 min.
Release Date Dec 5th, 2008 (limited)
Distributors Brushwork Pictures, Empire Film Group
Country US

Che - Part One

Click here for Trailer/Teaser
On November 26, 1956, Fidel Castro sails to Cuba with eighty rebels. One of those rebels is Ernesto "Che" Guevara, an Argentine doctor who shares a common goal with Fidel Castro - to overthrow the corrupt dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. Che proves indispensable as a fighter, and quickly grasps the art of guerrilla warfare. As he throws himself into the struggle, Che is embraced by his comrades and the Cuban people.

Cast
Benicio Del Toro as Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
Demian Bichir as Fidel Castro
Santiago Cabrera as Camillo Cienfuegos
Elvira Minguez as Celia Sanchez
Jorge Perugorria as Joaquin
Edgar Ramirez as Ciro Redondo
Victor Rasuk as Rogelio Acevedo
Armando Riesco as Benigno
Catalina Sandino Moreno as Aleida Guevara
Rodrigo Santoro as Raul Castro
Unax Ugalde as Little Cowboy
Yul Vazquez as Alejandro Ramirez
Carlos Bardem as Moises Guevara
Joaquim De Almeida as Barrientos
Eduard Fernandez as Ciro Algaranaz
Marc-Andre Grondin as Regis Debray
Oscar Jaenada as Dario
Matt Damon as Fr. Schwartz
Jordi Molla as Captain Vargas
Ruben Ochandiano as Rolando Moran
Julia Ormond as Lisa Howard
Gaston Pauls as Ciros Bustos
Lou Diamond Phillips as Mario Monje
Franka Potente as Tania
Mark Umbers (II) as Roth
Antonio Peredo as Coco
Roberto Urbina as Guile Pardo
Octavio Gomez (II) as Otto
Rene Lavan as Miguel
Monique Curnen as Secretary
Roberto L. Santana as Juan Almeida Bosque

Detail Info
Director Steven Soderbergh
Writers

• Screenplay: Peter Buchman, Benicio Del Toro
• Book: Ernesto Guevara

Producers Alvaro Longoria, Frederic W. Brost, Belen Atienza, Alvaro Augustin, Gregory Jacobs, Laura Bickford, Benicio Del Toro
Music Alberto Iglesias
Running Time Part One - 129 min./Part Two - 128 min.
Release Date

• Dec 12th, 2008 (NY/LA)
• Jan 9th, 2009 (limited)

Distributors IFC Films

The Wrestler

Click here for Movie Trailer
Click here for OST The Wrestler - Bruce Springsteen

Randy "The Ram" Robinson, a 1980s-era pro wrestler, has become a burnt-out shell of his former self. After he has a heart attack during a small-time match, a doctor tells him he could die if he fights again. In an effort to build a new life, Robinson takes a job at a deli, moves in with an aging stripper and tries to build a relationship with her son. But the prospect of a rematch with his old nemesis, the Ayatollah, proves too tempting to resist, even if it means risking his life.

Cast
Mickey Rourke as Randy "The Ram" Robinson
Marisa Tomei as Cassidy/Pam
Evan Rachel Wood as Stephanie
Judah Friedlander as Scott Brumberg
Ajay Naidu
Marcia Jean Kurtz (II)
Wass Stevens as Nick Volpe
Todd Barry as Wayne
Ronnie Killings as Ozzie D.
Sylvia Kauders
Giovanni Rosselli as Shawn McPride
Bernadette Penotti (II)
Andrea Langi as Alyssa

Detail Info
Director Darren Aronofsky
Producer Vincent Maraval, Agnes Mentre, Jennifer Roth, Darren Aronofsky, Nicolas Cage, Norm Golightly, Scott Franklin, Mark Heyman
Editor Andrew Weisblum
Writer Robert Siegel, Darren Aronofsky
Music Clint Mansell, Tracy McKnight, Jim Black (II)
Running Time 1 hr. 45 min.
Release Date Dec 17th, 2008 (limited)
Distributors Fox Searchlight Pictures
Country US

Let Them Chirp Awhile

Click here for Trailer

Bobby is a struggling screenwriter taking care of a feisty Jack Russell puppy because of a deal he made with a girl he's hoping to sleep with. During a month of every day life in New York City, Bobby grapples with his friend Scott who is a womanizer, and a foe Hart Carlton, who steals Bobby's screenplay ideas and puts them into a campy morality play about 9-11. All of this occurs while Bobby has several failed relationships of his own.

Cast
Justin Rice as Bobby
Brendan Sexton III as Scott
Laura Breckenridge as Dara
Pepper Binkley as Michelle
Zach Galligan as Hart Carlton
Anthony Rapp as Himself
Amy Chow as Ariel
Abe Goldfarb as Voice of Leverne
Brian Silliman as Voice of Roma
Dennis Hurley as Voice of Williamson
Josh Alexander as Richard Buxton
Allegra Cohen
Jeff Schaeffer
Erik Wolfe

Detail Info
Director Jonathan Blitstein
Producer Anouk Frosch
Editor Jonathan Blitstein
Running Time 1 hr. 31 min.
Release Date Dec 5th, 2008
Distributors Blitstein Film
Country US

The Reader - Movie Trailer

The Reader

Click here for Trailer

When he falls ill on his way home from school, 15 year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. The two begin an unexpected and passionate affair only for Hanna to suddenly and inexplicably disappear. Eight years later, Michael, now a young law student observing Nazi war trials, meets his former lover again, under very different circumstances. Hanna is on trial for a hideous crime, and as she refuses to defend herself, Michael gradually realizes his boyhood love may be guarding a secret she considers to be more shameful than murder.

Cast
Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz
Ralph Fiennes as Michael
Karoline Herfurth as Marthe
Hannah Herzsprung as Julia
David Kross as Michael Berg

Detail Info
Directors Stephen Daldry
Writers David Hare
Producers Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Redmond Morris
Editors Claire Simpson
Music Nico Muhly
Release Date Dec 12th, 2008 (limited)
Distributors Miramax Films, The Weinstein Company
Studios The Weinstein Company
Country Berlin, Germany
Language English

Timecrimes

Click here for Trailer

A man who travels accidentally back to the past and meets himself there. A naked girl in the midst of the forest. A weird guy with his face covered by a pink bandage. A disquieting mansion on the top of a hill. All of them pieces of an unpredictable jigsaw where terror, drama and suspense will lead to an unthinkable sort of crime.

Cast
Nacho Vigalondo as Boy
Karra Elejalde as Hector
Candela Fernandez as Clara
Juan Inciarte

Detail Info
Director Nacho Vigalondo
Writer Nacho Vigalondo
Producer Eduardo Carneros, Esteban Ibarretxe, Javier Ibarretxe, Santi Camunas, Jordi Rediuc, Norbert Llaras
Editor Jose Luis Romeu
Music Chucky Namanera
Running Time 1 hr. 28 min.
Release Date Dec 5th, 2008 (limited)
Distributors Magnolia Pictures, Magnet

Nobel Son

Click here for trailer

Barkley Michaelson is in a deep life rut. He's struggling to finish his PhD thesis when his father, the learned Eli Michaelson, wins the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Barkley and his mother, Sarah, a renowned forensic psychiatrist, now have the ill-fortune of living with a man-eating monster whose philandering ways have gotten less and less discrete. As if Barkley's world is not bad enough, on the eve of his father receiving the Nobel, Barkley is kidnapped and the requested ransom is the $2,000,000 in Nobel prize money. Needless to say, Eli refuses to pay it and so starts a venomous tale of familial dysfunction, lust, betrayal and ultimately revenge.

Cast
Shawn Hatosy as Thaddeus James/ Thaddeus James
Bryan Greenberg as Barkley Michaelson
Alan Rickman as Eli Michaelson/ Eli Michaelson
Mary Steenburgen as Sarah Michaelson
Bryan Greenberg as Barkley Michaelson
Eliza Dushku as City Hall
Bill Pullman
Danny DeVito as Gastner
Ted Danson as Harvey Parrish
Mary Pat Gleason as Ruby
Larry Hankin as Dr. Polaczek
Juliette Jeffers as Claire
Dean Rader-Duval as Ernie

Detail Info
Director Randall M. Miller
Writers Randall M. Miller, Jody Savin
Producers Art Klein, Tom Soulanille, Michael Ravine
Editors Dan O'Brien, Randall M. Miller
Music Paul Oakenfold (II), Mark Adler, Jonathan McHugh
Running Time 1 hr. 50 min.
Release Date December 5th, 2008 (limited)
Distributors Freestyle Releasing
Country United States

Gran Torino

Click here for Trailer

Walt Kowalski (Eastwood), a racist Korean War veteran, becomes increasingly unhappy at the influx of Hmong people to his neighborhood. After he catches Tao (Vang), a teenage Hmong neighbor, attempting to steal his vintage Gran Torino car as part of a gang initiation, the boy is forced by the gang to work for Kowalski in penance. Estranged from his children and grandchildren, and having just lost his wife, Kowalski gradually becomes friendly with Tao and his family, learning about Hmong culture. He steadily loses his racist façade and attempts to protect Tao and his sister Sue (Her) from the gang.

Cast
Clint Eastwood as Walt Kowalski
Bee Vang as Tao
Ahney Her as Sue
Michael Kurowski as Josh Kowalski

Detail Info
Directed by Clint Eastwood
Produced by Clint Eastwood, Bill Gerber, Robert Lorenz
Written by

• Screenplay: Nick Schenk
• Story: Dave Johannson, Nick Schenk

Cinematography Tom Stern
Editing by Joel Cox,Gary D. Roach
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date(s)

• December 17, 2008 (limited)
• January 16, 2009 (wide)

Country United States
Language English

External Link
Official Website

Shanghai

In the months leading up to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, an American man arrives in Shanghai to find his friend recently murdered. In investigating his friend's death, he stumbles upon a secret the United States government has been keeping and falls in love in the process.

Cast
John Cusack as Paul Soames
Gong Li as Anna Lan-Ting
Chow Yun-Fat as Anthony Lan Ting
Ken Watanabe
Franka Potente
Rinko Kikuchi

Detail Info
Directed by Mikael Håfström
Produced by Mike Medavoy, Barry Mendel, Jake Myers
Written by Hossein Amini
Music by Gabriel Yared
Cinematography Benoît Delhomme
Distributed by The Weinstein Company
Release date(s) December 25, 2008
Country United States
Language English