Movies Released September 17, 2004

Friday, September 17

100 mins

Wimbledon PG-13

Peter Colt (Paul Bettany) is an unlucky guy, scoring "love" both professionally and personally. Seeded near the bottom of the world tennis ranks, he manages to score a wild card, allowing him to play in the prestigious Wimbledon tournament. There, he meets and falls in love with American tennis star Lizzie Bradbury (Kirsten Dunst). Fueled by a mixture of his newfound luck, love and on-court prowess, Peter works his way up the ranks of the tournament players and actually stands a chance of fulfilling his lifelong dream of winning the men's singles title—if his luck can just hold out.
Kirsten Dunst, James McAvoy, Jon Favreau, Sam Neill, Richard Loncraine, Liza Chasin, Paul Bettany, Eric Fellner
Comedy Romance Sports

Zelary R

It is the 1940s and the Czech lands have been occupied by the Nazis. Eliska is a young woman who was unable to complete medical school because the Germans closed the universities and now works as a nurse in a city hospital. She is also involved in the resistance movement along with her lover, the surgeon Richard, and their friend Dr. Chldek. One night, a man from a rural mountain area is brought to the hospital with serious injuries and desperately needs a transfusion. Eliska is the only one with the same blood type. Her blood saves his life and a connection is formed between the two that in the course of the story becomes an extraordinarily strong relationship between the modern, cosmopolitan, and educated Eliska and the barbaric, salt of the earth man with the soul of a child, Joza. The resistance group that the doctors are involved in is discovered and hunted by the Gestapo and suddenly their lives are threatened. While Eliska's lover, Richard, flees the country overnight, the group quickly has to find a different safe haven for her. They ask Joza, the patient whose life she saved with her blood, to hide her in his remote mountain cabin. Eliska is forced to leave her urban life and all at once become a new woman: Hana, the wife of a mountain man. Her new home is the wild mountain village where time stopped one hundred and fifty years ago called Zelary.
Ondrej Trojan, Kveta Legátová, Petr Jarchovský, Anna Geislerová, György Cserhalmi, Jaroslava Adamová, Miroslav Donutil
Drama Romance
99 mins

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence PG-13

After nine years, acclaimed writer/director Mamoru Oshii follows up his cult hit "Ghost in the Shell"—one of the biggest animé successes of all time—with the long-awaited sequel "Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence". It is the year 2032 and the line between humans and machines has been blurred almost beyond distinction. Humans have forgotten that they are human and those that are left coexist with cyborgs (human spirits inhabiting entirely mechanized bodies) and dolls (robots with no human elements at all). Batou is a cyborg. His body is artificial: the only remnants left of his humanity are traces of his brain…and the memories of a woman called The Major. A detective for the government's covert anti-terrorist unit, Public Security Section 9, Batou is investigating the case of a gynoid—a hyper-realistic female robot created specifically for sexual companionship—who malfunctions and slaughters her owner. As Batou delves deeper into the investigation, questions arise about humanity's need to immortalize its image in dolls. The answers to those questions lead to the shocking truth behind the crime...and quite possibly the very meaning of life.
Akio Ôtsuka, Yutaka Nakano, Mitsuhisa Ichikawa, Mamoru Oshii, Atsuko Tanaka, Kôichi Yamadera, Tamio Ôki, Naoto Takenaka
Drama Action Adventure Animation Foreign
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133 mins

Head in the Clouds R

When 18 year old Guy Malyon takes up a scholarship at Cambridge University his world is forever changed following a passionate affair with a stunning, aristocratic but hedonistic fellow student, Gilda Besse, which takes him across Europe from the killing fields of Spain's Civil War to occupied France... before a dangerous secret threatens to tear them apart.
Thomas Kretschmann, Penelope Cruz, Daniel Gillies, Bertil Ohlsson, Jason Piette, John Duigan, Stuart Townsend, Rachelle Lefevre
Drama Romance

Incident at Loch Ness PG-13

This documentary will examine the legendary Loch Ness monster, sometimes known as Nessie. Legendary film director Werner Herzog will spend months shooting at the lake, talking to locals, diving underwater, and examining everything surrounding the mythical beast that may or may not live in one of the world's deepest lakes.
Werner Herzog, Zak Penn, Kitana Baker, Gabriel Beristain, Russell Williams, David A. Davidson, Michael Karnow, Robert O'Meara
Comedy
107 mins

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow PG

Famous scientists around the world have mysteriously disappeared and Chronicle reporter Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow) along with ace aviator Sky Captain (Jude Law) are on the investigation. Risking their lives as they travel to exotic places around world, can the fearless duo stop Dr. Totenkopf, the evil mastermind behind a plot to destroy the earth? Aided by Franky Cook (Angelina Jolie), commander of an all-female amphibious squadron, and technical genius Dex (Giovanni Ribisi), Polly and Sky Captain may be our planet's only hope.
Casey Affleck, Jude Law, Angelina Jolie, Bai Ling, Jon Avnet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Giovanni Ribisi, Sadie Frost
Action Adventure Fantasy Historical Superhero Sci-Fi
129 mins

Silver City R

Set against the backdrop of a mythic "New West," "Silver City" follows grammatically-challenged, "user-friendly" candidate Dicky Pilager (Chris Cooper), scapegrace scion of Colorado's venerable Senator Jud Pilager (Michael Murphy), during his gubernatorial campaign. When Pilager finds that he's reeled in a corpse during the taping of an environmental political ad, his ferocious campaign manager, Chuck Raven (Richard Dreyfuss), hires former idealistic journalist turned rumpled private detective Danny O'Brien (Danny Huston) to investigate potential links between the corpse and the Pilager family's enemies. Danny's investigation pulls him deeper and deeper into a complex web of influence and corruption, involving high stakes lobbyists, media conglomerates, environmental plunderers, and undocumented migrant workers.
Chris Cooper, Daryl Hannah, Danny Huston, Maggie Renzi, Kris Kristofferson, Thora Birch, Maria Bello, Cheech Marin
Drama Suspense Mystery
87 mins

National Lampoon's Gold Diggers PG-13

Losers Calvin and Leonard try to rob a couple of 70-year-old women, but the plan fails, and they're soon thrown behind bars. After being mysteriously bailed out, Cal and Leo are summoned to a house, where the women they tried to rob have devious, sexual plans for them.
Chris Owen, Renee Taylor, Don Ashley, Amy Greenspun, Brian Greenspun, J.B. Moresco, Kami Norton, Gary Preisler
Comedy Crime Teen

Friday, September 17