Movies Released October 8, 2010

Friday, October 8

116 mins

Secretariat PG

Based on "Secretariat," the 1973 Triple Crown-winning racehorse and its owner, Penny Chenery. Chenery was a mother and housewife who knew little about horses when she was pressed to take over her ailing father's horse farm in Virginia. Though Secretariat came along and began to take shape as a potential champion, Chenery was pressured to sell the farm after her father died and she was hit with a multimillion-dollar inheritance tax. She saved both the farm and the horse, and watched as Secretariat became the first thoroughbred to win the Triple Crown in 25 years, taking the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes in dominating fashion. Chenery became known as the "first lady of racing."
John Malkovich, Graham McTavish, Diane Lane, James Cromwell, Randall Wallace, Scott Glenn, Margo Martindale, Kevin Connolly
Drama Historical
88 mins

My Soul to Take R

The story concerns a serial killer who shows up 15 years after he is believed dead to kill seven children born on his supposed death day.
Shareeka Epps, Iya Labunka, Anthony Katagas, Wes Craven, Henry Lee Hopper, Denzel Whitaker, Emily Meade, Raul Esparza
Thriller Suspense Horror 3D Post-3D
101 mins

It's Kind of a Funny Story PG-13

A clinically depressed 15-year-old checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward where he gains a new lease on life.
Viola Davis, Zoe Kravitz, Jim Gaffigan, Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, Keir Gilchrist, Lauren Graham, Ryan Fleck
Drama Teen
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112 mins

Life As We Know It PG-13

Two single people suddenly become caregivers to an orphaned girl after the parents, their mutual best friends, are killed in an accident.
Greg Berlanti, Christina Hendricks, Josh Duhamel, Jean Smart, Faizon Love, Paul Brooks, Katherine Heigl, Josh Lucas
Drama Comedy Romance
87 mins

Nowhere Boy R

A biopic of a young John Lennon.
Douglas Rae, Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sam Taylor Wood, Kevin Loader, Matt Greenhalgh, Thomas Sangster, Anne-Marie Duff
Drama
New York / Los Angeles
3 / 5
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100 mins

Buried R

Ryan Reynolds will star in "Buried", playing a civilian contractor who's kidnapped in Iraq and awakens buried in a coffin in the desert, armed only with a cell phone, a candle and a knife.
Ryan Reynolds, Robert Paterson, Warner Loughlin, Samantha Mathis, Rodrigo Cortés, Chris Sparling
Drama War
108 mins

I Spit On Your Grave R

A remake of the controversial 1979 horror movie, it retells the horrific tale of writer Jennifer Hills, who takes a retreat from the city to a charming cabin in the woods to start on her next book. But Jennifer’s presence in the small town attracts the attention of a few morally deprived locals who set out one night to teach this city girl a lesson.
Steven R. Monroe, Daniel Franzese, Chad Lindberg, Sarah Butler, Rodney Eastman, Jeff Branson
Thriller Horror Remake
105 mins

Stone R

Based on a play by "Junebug" screenwriter Angus MacLachlan. Robert De Niro will play a parole officer who develops a friendship with a teaching assistant.
Robert De Niro, Milla Jovovich, Edward Norton, Frances Conroy, John Curran, Angus MacLachlan
Drama Thriller Suspense
New York / Los Angeles
4 / 5
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109 mins

Tamara Drewe R

The story centers on a sexy flirtatious woman who returns to her small country village and stirs up dark passions among the locals.
Gemma Arterton, Alison Owen, Moira Buffini, Luke Evans, Tamsin Greig, Dominic Cooper, Stephen Frears, Tracey Seaward
Comedy
108 mins

Inside Job PG-13

The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, "Inside Job" traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia.
Matt Damon, Charles Ferguson, Audrey Marrs, Jeffrey Lurie
Documentary
89 mins

Down Terrace R

A genre-bending portrait of a crime family.
Ben Wheatley, Robin Hill
Comedy
New York / Los Angeles
4 / 5
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As Good as Dead R

Fundamentalists kidnap the man they believe murdered their religious leader, but they may have the wrong person.
Brian Cox, Cary Elwes, Frank Whaley, Jonathan Mossek, Andie MacDowell, Matt Dallas
Thriller
104 mins

Never Let Me Go R

As a child, Kathy–now thirty-one years old–lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life, she stops resisting the pull of memory. And so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years at Hailsham. She describes happy scenes of boys and girls growing up together, unperturbed–even comforted–by their isolation. But she describes other scenes as well: of discord and misunderstanding that hint at a dark secret behind Hailsham’s nurturing facade. With the dawning clarity of hindsight, the three friends are compelled to face the truth about their childhood–and about their lives now.
Allon Reich, Andrew Garfield, Charlotte Rampling, Mark Romanek, Alex Garland, Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, Sally Hawkins
Drama Adaptation
100 mins

It's a Wonderful Afterlife

A British-Asian mother's obsession to marry off her daughter leads to serial murder.
Gurinder Chadha, Paul Mayeda Berges
Comedy Horror

Friday, October 8