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September 16, 2005

'Cry Wolf'; 'The Greatest Game Ever Played'; 'Just Like Heaven'; 'Lord of War'; 'Mad Hot Ballroom'; Still in theaters; '40-Year-Old Virgin'; 'The Brothers Grimm'; 'The Cave'; 'Constant Gardener'; 'The Dukes of Hazzard'; 'Exorcism of Emily Rose'; 'Four Brothers'; 'March of the Penguins'; 'Must Love Dogs'; 'Red Eye'; 'Sky High'; 'Transporter 2'; 'The Wedding Crashers'

New at the theaters

'Cry Wolf'

Starring Julian Morris, Lindy Booth, Jared Padalecki, Jon Bon Jovi, Kristy Wu and Ethan Cohn. After a local teenager is murdered, a group of high-school students try to scare their classmates by spreading Internet rumors that a serial killer known as The Wolf is in the area. The teens have fun describing the killer's next victims, but when people actually start turning up dead, they have to figure out who's behind the gruesome attacks. Rated PG-13 for violence, terror, disturbing images, language, sexuality and a brief drug reference; running time 90 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'The Greatest Game Ever Played'

Starring Shia LaBeouf, Stephen Dillane, Peter Firth, Elias Koteas, Peyton List and Joshua Flitter. Young golfer Francis Ouimet and his 10-year-old caddie become unlikely competitors in the 1913 U.S. Open tournament and take on the defending British champion, Harry Vardon. Rated PG for some brief mild language; running time 120 minutes. Sneak preview Saturday only. (Cape West Cine)

'Just Like Heaven'

Starring Reese Witherspoon, Mark Ruffalo, Donal Logue, Dina Waters, Ben Shenkman and Jon Heder. 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)

'Lord of War'

Starring Nicolas Cage, Bridget Moynahan, Ethan Hawke, Jared Leto, Jeffrey Wright and Donald Sutherland. 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. (Cape West Cine)

'Mad Hot Ballroom'

Documentarian Marilyn Agrelo follows a group of 11-year-old New York City students as they reluctantly take ballroom dancing lessons. It's not long before they're dancing like old pros and setting their sights on a citywide competition. Rated PG for some thematic elements; running time 110 minutes. (Town Plaza Cinema)

Still in theaters

'40-Year-Old Virgin'

Starring Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Paul Rudd, Seth Rogen, Romany Malco and Elizabeth Banks. Unlike most 40-year-old men, retail clerk Andy Stitzer 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)

'The Brothers Grimm'

Starring Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, Jonathan Pryce, Peter Stormare, Lena Headey and Monica Bellucci. Terry Gilliam directs this revisionist adventure story that loosely follows the fairy tale-telling brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. The siblings are early 18th-century con men who convince people to pay them for their abilities to banish strange creatures from their villages. It's all a scam, which has them worried after Napoleon's men want their services to investigate an evil queen who may be sapping blood from innocent young girls. Rated PG-13 for violence, frightening sequences and brief suggestive material; running time 118 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'The Cave'

Starring Cole Hauser, Morris Chestnut, Eddie Cibrian, Rick Ravanello, Marcel Lures, Lena Headey, and Piper Perabo. Jack and his brother, Tyler, gather a team of professional cave explorers to investigate a newly discovered underground ecosystem in Romania. But once they're a mile underground they have a run-in with a nasty new breed of flesh-hungry beast. Rated PG-13 for intense creature violence, running time 100 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Constant Gardener'

Starring Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Danny Huston, Bill Nighy, and Hubert Kounde. When activist Tessa Quayle is found murdered in Northern Kenya, her widower, Justin, suspects that she had been having an affair. As Justin begins investigating Tessa's death, he uncovers a conspiracy involving pharmaceutical companies in the United States and the local Kenyan government. Rated R for language, some violent images and sexual content/nudity, running time 129 minutes. (Town Plaza Cinema)

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'The Dukes of Hazzard'

Starring Jessica Simpson, Johnny Knoxville, Seann William Scott, Burt Reynolds and Willie Nelson. This update of the old TV series finds Bo and Luke Duke and their hot cousin Daisy running moonshine with Uncle Jesse in order to save the family farm from Hazzard County's commissioner, Boss Hogg. Rated PG-13 for sexual content, crude and drug-related humor, language and comic action violence, running time 105 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Exorcism of Emily Rose'

Starring Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, Campbell Scott, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Jennifer Carpenter, and Colm Feore. After the Catholic Church officially recognizes the demonic possession of a 19-year-old college student, it dispatches a priest to perform an exorcism. But the girl dies during the procedure, and soon the priest is on trial for negligence. Rated PG-13 for thematic material, including intense/frightening sequences and disturbing images, running time 114 minutes. (Town Plaza Cinema)

'Four Brothers'

Starring Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson, Andre Benjamin, and Garrett Hedlund. Four brothers set out to avenge the murder of their mother, which they suspect may not have been the convenience-store robbery it looked like. Rated R - for strong violence, pervasive language and some sexual content, running time 102 minutes. (Cape West Cine) 'The Man'

Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Eugene Levy, and Miguel Ferrer. Federal agent Derrick Vann has 24 hours to recover a pile of stolen weapons and find his former partner's killers. This becomes much more challenging when the bad guys mistake salesman Andy Fiddler for the gun buyer. Now, Vann has to get Andy to pose as the front man in a sting operation. Rated PG-13 for language, rude dialogue and some violence, running time 79 minutes. (Town Plaza Cinema)

'March of the Penguins'

Morgan Freeman narrates the story of thousands of Antarctic penguins who march across the frozen wasteland in order to mate É and find true love. Rated G, running time 80 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Must Love Dogs'

Starring Diane Lane, John Cusack and Elizabeth Perkins. After a bad breakup, Sarah Hurlihy swears off men, but her sister puts Sarah's profile on a dating Web site, saying that all respondents "must love dogs." But Sarah doesn't even have a dog herself! When a hot dog-owner replies, Sarah borrows her bro's canine to cover up the lie. Rated PG-13 for sexual content, running time 100 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Red Eye'

Starring Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, Kyle Gallner, Carl Gilliard, Laura Johnson, and Max Kasch. Lisa Reisart hates to fly, but her fears are put at ease when she meets a handsome stranger who's departing to Miami on the same flight. The problem is, just after takeoff, the man reveals himself to be a psycho planning to kill the head of Homeland Security, and Lisa is somehow the key to his success. Rated PG-13 for some intense sequences of violence, and language, runing time 85 minutes. (Town Plaza Cinema)

'Sky High'

Starring Kurt Russell, Kelly Preston and Michael Angarano. In a world where superheroes are common, Jeremy, the son of Commander Stronghold and Jetstream, attends a high school for superteens. But Jeremy is the only one without a superpower. Rated PG for action violence and some mild language, running time 100 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Transporter 2'

Starring Jason Statham, Alessandro Gassman, Amber Valletta, Hunter Clary, Jeff Chase, Keith David, and Tim Ware. Ex-elite commando Frank Martin has retired to Miami and become a driver for a wealthy family with two young boys, Jack and Devon. When the two boys are kidnapped and injected with a potentially fatal virus, Martin defies the FBI to get the boys back safely. Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violent action, sexual content, partial nudity and brief language, running time 88 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'The Wedding Crashers'

Starring Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn and Rachel McAdams. Two partying dudes crash weddings to meet girls. But things get complicated when one of them falls for a bridesmaid. Rated R for sexual content, nudity and language, running time 119 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

-- From staff reports

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