At the theaters 10/21/05

New at the theaters

'Doom'

Starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Karl Urban and Rosamund Pike. When communication fails at a remote research facility on Mars, the only people allowed in to investigate are the Marines of the Rapid Response Tactical Squad. They discover that the researchers inadvertently opened up a portal to hell and unleashed a slew of demons. Rated R for strong violence/gore and language, running time 104 minutes. (Town Plaza Cinema)

'Kids in America'

Starring Gregory Smith, Stephanie Sherrin and Chris Morris. Principal Weller is a tyrant who rules Booker High School with an iron fist. When she starts suspending students right and left for doing such things as kissing in the hallway and passing out condoms, brainy student Holden decides to make a documentary chronicling the experiences of the oppressed student body. Rated 91, running time, 91 minutes. (Town Plaza Cinema)

'North Country'

Starring Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand and Sean Bean. After her marriage hits the skids, Josey Aimes returns to her North Minnesota hometown and takes a job at a local mine where she's subject to nonstop sexual harassment from her male co-workers. Despite the risk of losing her job, Josey decides to put a stop to it by filing a lawsuit. Rated R for sequences involving sexual harassment including violence and dialogue, and for language, running time 123 minutes. (Town Plaza Cinema)

'Stay'

Starring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. A psychologist at an elite East Coast university tries to prevent the suicide of one of his patients, who keeps seeing dead people and successfully predicting the future. While investigating the case, he meets a woman who claims to know the young man's mother. Rated R for language and some disturbing images, running time 99 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

Still in theaters

'40-Year-Old Virgin'

Starring Steve Carell, Catherine Keener and Paul Rudd. Andy Stitzer, age 40, hasn't had sex. Ever. His co-workers try to help him out, but nothing works. But then Andy meets Trish, a 40-year-old single mother of three. Andy's buddies think "it" may finally happen, until they learn that Andy and Trish's relationship is based on a firm "no sex" policy. Rated R for pervasive sexual content, language and some drug use; running time 116 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Corpse Bride'

Starring the voices of Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Emily Watson. In this Tim Burton animated film, Victor, a villager in a small 19th-century European town, is taken to the underworld to marry a corpse bride. Surprisingly, the afterlife isn't that disagreeable, and it's a lot more exciting than his strict Victorian society. Rated PG for some scary images and action, and brief mild language, running time 75 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Domino'

Starring Keira Knightley, Mena Suvari and Christopher Walken. Domino Harvey, a former model and the daughter of actor Laurence Harvey, leaves her life of luxury in Beverly Hills to become a bounty hunter. She spends the next three years firing off countless rounds of ammo in south Los Angeles. Rated R for strong violence, pervasive language, sexual content/nudity and drug use, running time 120 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Dreamer'

Starring Kurt Russell, Dakota Fanning and Kris Kristofferson. Ben Crane was once a great horseman, but now he bides his time training the horses of rich businessmen. Sonya was a great horse whose career was suddenly cut short by a broken leg. Considered as good as dead by her owner, who also happens to be Ben's boss, Sonya is given to Ben as severance pay. Ben's young daughter, Cale, convinces him to pursue a seemingly impossible goal: winning the Breeders' Cup Classic. Rated PG for brief mild language, running time 98 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Elizabethtown'

Starring Orlando Bloom, Kirsten Dunst and Susan Sarandon. After costing his company millions of dollars, Drew Baylor travels back to his Kentucky hometown for his father's funeral. Along the way, he meets Claire, a flight attendant who becomes very assertive in her quest to hook up with Drew. Rated PG-13 for language and some sexual references, running time 123 minutes. (Town Plaza Cinema)

'The Fog'

Starring Tom Welling, Maggie Grace and Selma Blair. A century in the past, off the coast of Northern California, a horrible shipwreck that might have involved foul play killed a crew of sailors. Now, their ghosts are back for revenge, traveling in the form of an eerie fog. That's bad news for the residents of a small town. Rated PG-13 for violence and disturbing images, running time 100 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Flightplan'

Starring Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard and Erika Christensen. Airplane designer Kyle Pratt takes her daughter, Julia, on board a state-of-the-art 474 aircraft to fly from Berlin to New York. In the middle of the nonstop flight, Julia seemingly disappears without a trace, and the crew claim the girl never boarded the plane at takeoff. Rated PG-13 for violence and some intense plot material, running time 92 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'The Gospel'

Starring Clifton Powell, Yolanda Adams and Dwayne Boyd. Fusing the music of popular gospel singers with a plot based on the parable of the prodigal son, this drama explores the workaday lives of a group of churchgoers. Rated PG for thematic elements including suggestive material, and mild language, running time 115 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Greatest Game Ever Played'

Starring Shia LaBeouf, Stephen Dillane and Peter Firth. Young golfer Francis Ouimet and his 10-year-old caddie become unlikely participants in the 1913 U.S. Open tournament and take on the defending British champion. Rated PG for some brief mild language, running time 100 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'A History of Violence'

Starring Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello and Ed Harris. Tom works at a diner in a small town with his wife, Edie. Their peaceful lives are interrupted when Tom thwarts an attempted robbery and becomes a local hero. After seeing him on TV, a couple of mobsters show up on the scene, pegging Tom as a guy who's wronged them in the past. Rated R for strong brutal violence, graphic sexuality, nudity, language and some drug use, running time 95 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'In Her Shoes'

Starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette and Shirley MacLaine. Two sisters clash when they move in together. When Maggie refuses to get a job, Rose gives her the boot, forcing Maggie to shack up with a grandmother she never knew she had. Rated PG-13 for thematic material, language and some sexual content, running time 130 minutes. (Town Plaza Cinema)

'Into the Blue'

Starring Paul Walker, Jessica Alba and Josh Brolin. In the shark-filled waters of the Bahamas, skin-divers Jared and Sam discover millions of dollars' worth of sunken loot from a cargo ship. Soon, a crew of dangerous criminals swoops in, threatening to take the treasure at any cost. Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of action violence, drug material, some sexual content and language, running time 90 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Just Like Heaven'

Starring Reese Witherspoon, Mark Ruffalo and Donal Logue. An architect living in San Francisco falls in love with a female spirit he's found in his closet. The woman whose ghost he's wooing has been in a coma at a local hospital for the past six months, and unless he can intervene, her body will be taken off life support. Rated PG-13 for some sexual content; running time 100 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Two for the Money'

Starring Al Pacino, Matthew McConaughey, Rene Russo, Armand Assante, Jeremy Piven, and Jamie King. A star college football player blows out his knee, forcing him to consider other career options. He's hired by a man who runs a big-time sports-gambling business, and soon he's on the way to the top. Rated R for pervasive language, a scene of sexuality and a violent act, running time 125 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Wallace and Gromit'

Starring the voices of Peter Sallis, Helena Bonham-Carter and Ralph Fiennes. In the last few days before the Giant Vegetable Competition, Wallace and Gromit are in business, running a humane pest control company to protect their town's vegetables from pesky rabbits. But when a mysterious beast starts destroying vegetable gardens, Lady Tottington calls on the duo to save the day by humanely capturing the beast -- but will her stuck-up suitor, Victor Quartermaine, get to it first? Rated G, running time 100 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

-- From staff reports