Tagline: A love / hate comedy. After she arrives at her country home for a romantic weekend getaway, things don’t go exactly as planned for high-powered Manhattan lawyer Louise (Meg Ryan). First, her husband of 13 years, Ian (Timothy Hutton), tells her that he’s leaving her for a younger woman (Kristen Bell). Then, one thing…
Category: Drama and Romances
The Skeptic (2009)
The Skeptic is an American suspense thriller film written and directed by Tennyson Bardwell. Starring Tim Daly, Zoe Saldana, and Tom Arnold, and featuring Robert Prosky and Edward Herrmann, it depicts the story of an attorney who inherits a seemingly haunted house, though he does not believe in the supernatural. Written in the 1980s, the…
The Soloist (2009)
No one changes anything by playing safe. “Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable…” – Ludwig van Beethoven From the director of the Academy Award nominated “Atonement,” Joe Wright, and starring Oscar winner Jamie Foxx and Oscar nominee Robert Downey Jr., comes this poignant and ultimately…
State of Play (2009)
Tagline: Good reporters don’t have friends, only sources. In the chess match of Beltway politics, there is constant maneuvering between two worthy teams: politicians who seek to retain their positions of influence and journalists out to uncover corruption that accompanies unchecked power. What binds the opponents is their need for each other. And assassination—whether of…
Sunshine Cleaning (2009)
Tagline: Life is a messy business. A single mom and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in the off-beat dramatic comedy “Sunshine Cleaning.” Directed by Christine Jeffs (Rain, Sylvia), this uplifting film about an average family that finds the path to its dreams in an unlikely setting screened in…
Taking Woodstock (2009)
Working as an interior designer in Greenwich Village, Elliot (Demetri Martin) feels empowered by the gay rights movement. But he is also still staked to the family business – a dumpy Catskills motel called the El Monaco that is being run into the ground by his overbearing parents, Jake and Sonia Teichberg (Henry Goodman and…