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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, Harry Vardon. Rated PG for some brief mild language, running time 100 minutes. (Cape West Cine)
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)
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. Unfortunately, they're not the only ones who wanna cash in. 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)
Starring Ben Kingsley, Barney Clark and Leanne Rowe. A young orphan named Oliver Twist lives in London, working under tough conditions just to survive. On the street, Oliver meets Fagin, a thief, who invites him to live with him and join a crew of pickpockets. Soon Oliver is caught thieving by Mr. Brownlow, who, instead of punishing Oliver, decides to raise him. Rated PG-13 for disturbing images, running time 130 minutes. (Town Plaza Cinema)
Starring Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres and Alan Tudyk. This big-screen version of the short-lived TV series "Firefly" is set 500 years in the future and focuses on space captain Malcolm Reynolds and his crew, who make a living with petty crime and transporting people throughout space. After they pick up their latest passengers they realize that they're now being hunted by the Alliance, an out-of-control government. Rated PG-13 for sequences of intense violence and action, and some sexual references, running time 119 minutes. (Town Plaza Cinema)
Starring Steve Carell, Catherine Keener and Paul Rudd. 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)
Starring Matt Damon, Heath Ledger and Jonathan Pryce. 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)
Starring Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore and AnnaSophia Robb. Charlie Bucket finds one of five golden tickets for a guided tour of Willy Wonka's surreal candy-making factory. Rated PG for quirky situations, action and mild language, running time 116 minutes. (Town Plaza Cinema)
Starring Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz and Danny Huston. 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)
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. Meanwhile, his live wife-to-be, Victoria, is left behind in the land of the living. Rated PG for some scary images and action, and brief mild language, running time 75 minutes. (Cape West Cine)
Starring Julian Morris, Lindy Booth and Jared Padalecki. 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)
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)
Starring Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Erika Christensen, Sean Bean, Amanda Brooks, and Matthew Bomer. After the unexpected death of her husband, 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. Kyle begins to panic when the crew, including Capt. Rich and Air Marshal Gene Carson, 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)
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)
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) 'Roll Bounce'
Starring Bow Wow, Chi McBride, Khleo Thomas, Mike Epps, Meagan Good, and Nick Cannon. In the late '70s, when roller skating was hugely popular, X and his gang rule the local rink. But when it goes out of business, the boys must head to uptown's Sweetwater Roller Rink. Once there, they face off in the Roller Jam skate-off with the Sweetwater crew, a bunch of preppy guys and intimidating girls. Rated PG-13 for language and some crude humor, running time 112 minutes. (Cape West Cine)
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)
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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