New York City's prestigious Stuyvesant High School is a magnet for high achievers, with enrollment obtained through competitive exams that deny thousands entry. It also has some of the most heated class elections in the country. This documentary follows four teenagers in their vigorous campaign for student council president and its amusing parallels to the American political process.
Rockstar Games' antihero Max Payne gets his own movie with this video game adaptation. Mark Wahlberg (THE DEPARTED) plays the titular cop who is still trying to get over the death of his family while investigating several murders, while Mila Kunis (FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL) costars as an assassin desperate for her own revenge.
This stirring documentary follows fifteen inexperienced sailors as they use six months of training to attempt a 2,300-mile race. MORNING LIGHT arrives from some of the minds behind RIDING GIANTS and AMAZING JOURNEY: THE STORY OF THE WHO.
Wayne Wang (THE JOY LUCK CLUB) directs this drama about a Chinese exchange student living in Nebraska. After a one-night stand in her native country leaves her pregnant, Sasha (Ling Li) is forced to make decisions that will affect the rest of her life.
W. takes viewers through Bush's eventful life -- his struggles and triumphs, how he found both his wife and his faith, and of course the critical days leading up to Bush's decision to invade Iraq.
THE PLAYER meets WAG THE DOG in this star-studded satire on Hollywood from director Barry Levinson. This comedy that played at Sundance in 2008 stars Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, John Turturro, Robin Wright Penn, Stanley Tucci, Bruce Willis, and more of the industry's finest.
Celebrated playwright John Patrick Shanley adapts his own original work and directs this drama starring Oscar winners Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Suspicions of molestation arise at a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, with a priest (Hoffman) as the suspect, and a pair of nuns (Streep and ENCHANTED's Amy Adams) on opposite sides of the debate.
After residing on the New York Times best seller list, Sue Monk Kidd's beloved novel now moves to the silver screen. Set in 1964 South Carolina, THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES follows Lily Owens (Dakota Fanning), a young teenager whose mother died and whose distant father (Paul Bettany) seems nearly as far away. So Lily finds comfort in her friendship with her caretaker, Rosaleen (Jennifer Hudson). The unlikely pair escapes to a town where they stay with the Boatwright sisters (Queen Latifah, Sophie Okonedo, and Alicia Keys), who show Lily the wonders of beekeeping.
Boasting an R rating for "for strong crude and sexual content, nudity, language, (and) some drug and alcohol use," this raunchy comedy promises to follow in the footsteps of films such as AMERICAN PIE and ROAD TRIP. At age 18, Ian (Josh Zuckerman) is desperate to lose his virginity. In fact, he's so gung-ho that he's willing to drive from Chicago to Knoxville to meet the woman of his dreams, even though she has no idea what he looks like. Joined by his friends Lance (Clark Duke) and Felicia (Amanda Crew), Ian leaves on a cross-country trip that results in an unexpected conclusion. SEX DRIVE also costars James Marsden (ENCHANTED) and Seth Green (FAMILY GUY).
Though Madonna has spent plenty of time in front of the camera--both as a singer and an actress--this film marks her first outing as a director. Fellow musician and Gogol Bordello frontman Eugene Hutz stars in this film about a trio of London roommates.
