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October 28, 2005

'G'; 'Legend of Zorro'; 'Prime'; 'Saw 2'; 'Weather Man'; 'Zathura'; Still in theaters; '40-Year-Old Virgin'; 'Corpse Bride'; 'Doom'; 'Dreamer'; 'Elizabethtown'; 'The Fog'; 'Flightplan'; 'The History of Violence'; 'In Her Shoes'; 'Just Like Heaven'; 'Lord of War'; 'North Country'; 'Stay'; 'Wallace and Gromit'

New at the theaters

'G'

Starring Richard T. Jones, Blair Underwood and Chenoa Maxwell. A rap mogul named Summer G has everything he could ever want, with one exception: the love of his life, who's now married to a philandering Wall Street tycoon. He risks it all just to get her back. Rated R for language, some sexuality and brief violence; running time 96 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Legend of Zorro'

Starring Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Giovanna Zacar'as. It's 1850, and after fighting to help California become the 31st state, Zorro has promised his wife, Elena, that he'll give up being Zorro. But he has second thoughts when an old villain threatens. Rated PG for sequences of violence/peril and action, language and a couple of suggestive moments,; running time 129 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Prime'

Starring Meryl Streep, Bryan Greenberg and Uma Thurman. Rafi, a 37-year-old divorced New Yorker who's in therapy, meets and quickly falls for a 23-year-old painter from Brooklyn. But Rafi's date turns out to be her therapist's son. Rated PG-13 for sexual content including dialogue, and for language; running time 105 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Saw 2'

Starring Donnie Wahlberg, Franky G. and Glenn Plummer. Serial killer Jigsaw is back, only this time instead of locking up two people in a room, he's got eight victims. They must play a disturbing game to determine who, if anyone, survives. Rated R for grisly violence and gore, terror, language and drug content; running time 92 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Weather Man'

Starring Nicolas Cage, Michael Caine and Hope Davis. Dave Spritz, a TV weatherman in Chicago, gets his big chance: a spot on a popular morning show in New York City. While his career takes off, he finds that his relationship with his ex-wife and his children founders. He turns to his father for advice on how to get his life in order. Rated R for strong language and sexual content; running time 102 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Zathura'

Starring Tim Robbins, Josh Hutcherson and Jonah Bobo. This follow-up to "Jumanji" follows Danny and Walter Budwing, two brothers who discover a strange box while playing at a park. Inside the box is a jungle-themed board game and a second board, which is marked with a path to a purple planet called Zathura. Rated PG for fantasy, action and peril, and some language; running time 95 minutes. Sneak preview Saturday only. (Cape West Cine)

Still in theaters

'40-Year-Old Virgin'

Starring Steve Carell, Catherine Keener and Paul Rudd. Unlike most 40-year-old men, retail clerk Andy Stitzer hasn't had sex. Ever. 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 is taken to the underworld to marry a corpse bride. Surprisingly, the afterlife is 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)

'Doom'

Starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Karl Urban and Rosamund Pike. At a remote research facility on Mars, a team of scientists cracks the genetic code. But when communication fails and the place is quarantined, the Marines of the Rapid Response Tactical Squad are sent to investigate. 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)

'Dreamer'

Starring Kurt Russell, Dakota Fanning and Kris Kristofferson. Ben Crane was once a great horseman, but now he trains the horses of rich businessmen. Sonya was a great horse whose career was suddenly cut short by a broken leg. Her owner, Ben's boss, gives Sonya to Ben as severance pay, and Ben's young daughter 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)

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'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. The ghosts of shipwrecked sailors 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 aircraft to fly from Berlin to New York. In the middle of the nonstop flight, Julia seemingly disappears. Kyle begins to panic when 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 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, Shirley MacLaine and Mark Feuerstein. 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)

'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. Rated PG-13 for some sexual content; running time 100 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Lord of War'

Starring Nicolas Cage, Bridget Moynahan and Ethan Hawke. A global arms dealer named Yuri Orlov finds himself dealing with a nosy Interpol agent and a girlfriend who's beginning to think her man might be dabbling in something illegal. Rated R for strong violence, drug use, language and sexuality; running time 125 minutes. (Town Plaza Cinema)

'North Country'

Starring Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand and Sean Bean. Josey Aimes returns to her North Minnesota hometown and takes a job at a local mine. When she's subject to sexual harassment from her male co-workers, Josey decides to put a stop to it by filing a lawsuit despite the risk of losing her job. 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. Rated R for language and some disturbing images; running time 99 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

From staff reports

'Wallace and Gromit'

Starring the voices of Peter Sallis, Helena Bonham-Carter and Ralph Fiennes. Wallace and Gromit are in business, running a humane pest control company to protect their town's vegetables from pesky rabbits when a mysterious beast starts destroying vegetable gardens. Lady Tottington calls on the duo to save the day. Rated G, running time 100 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

-- From staff reports

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