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After being enticed on a cheap luxury holiday to a tropical island paradise, four couples suddenly find themselves thrust into intensive couples therapy as part of the package! Couples Dave (Vince Vaughn) and Ronnie (Malin Akerman), Joey (Jon Favreau) and Lucy (Kristin Davis), and recently divorced Shane (Faizon Love) with his new 'twenty-something' girlfriend Trudy (Kali Hawk) all embark on some serious soul searching that they really are not prepared for. As they endure the resort owner Marcel's (Jean Reno) odd counselling methods, including swimming with sharks and intimate yoga sessions with a very over amorous instructor. Soon they are facing up to their fears and each other as they make a hilarious last ditch attempt to save their marriages and what should have been the holiday of a lifetime! - Director:
- Peter Billingsley
- Cast:
- Vince Vaughn, Malin Åkerman, Jon Favreau
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Sandra Bullock is at her funniest in the fresh, laugh-out-loud romantic comedy The Proposal. On the verge of being deported and losing the high-powered job she lives for, the controlling Margaret announces she's engaged to her unsuspecting, put-upon assistant Andrew. After proposing a few demands of his own, the mismatched couple heads to Alaska where they have four short days to convince his quirky family and a very sceptical immigration agent that their charade is real. Featuring a star-studded supporting cast, including Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson and the delightfully inappropriate Betty White, this madcap comedy will have you saying "yes" to The Proposal again and again - Director:
- Anne Fletcher
- Cast:
- Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Mary Steenburgen
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A group of Sorority sisters are sworn to trust, secrecy and solidarity" - no matter what. But their loyalty is tested when a prank goes terribly wrong and ends a brutal murder. Rather than confess to the crime, the girls agree to hide the bloody corpse and keep their secret forever. A year later, as they prepare to say goodbye to the house and each other, the girls are confident their dark secret will remain buried, but does it? - Director:
- Stewart Hendler
- Cast:
- Briana Evigan, Rumer Willis, Carrie Fisher
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Based on the personal memoirs of Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors is a wickedly funny, brave and moving tale of surviving a most unusual childhood. Augusten's mother is a deluded aspiring poet with bipolar disorder whose marriage to his dad is in ruins. In desperation, she seeks the help of Dr. Finch, while Augusten is left in the care of Finch's wacky family, including his tightly wound daughter. Adopted by the Finches, he finds a kindred spirit in youngest daughter Natalie and motherly support from Finch's long-suffering wife Agnes. Constantly recording the events of his life in his journal as a way to cope, Augusten finds himself avoiding school, learning about love from an older man, and making big decisions at the tender age of fifteen. - Director:
- Ryan Murphy
- Cast:
- Joseph Cross, Annette Bening, Brian Cox
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Andrew "Large" Largeman (Zach Braff) is returning home to New Jersey for the first time in nine years to attend his mother's funeral. A struggling actor in Los Angeles, he's been living under clouds of medication prescribed by his psychiatrist father (Ian Holm). After drifting through the funeral with the same emotional numbness he's felt for years, he reconnects with an old friend Mark (Peter Sarsgaard). In a doctor's office, he meets Sam (Natalie Portmar), an epileptic whose lust for life inspires Andrew to feel things that his medication long denied him. Over four days, he develops feelings for Sam he didn't know he was capable of, and faces up to the resentment his father holds toward him about an accident that happened long ago. - Director:
- Zach Braff
- Cast:
- Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard
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Charlyne Yi does not believe in love, or so she says. At the very least she doesn't believe in fairy-tale love, or the Hollywood mythology of love, and her own experiences have turned her into yet another modern day skeptic. Follow Charlyne across America as she, and her good friend (and director), Nicholas Jasenovec search for answers and advice about love by talking with friends, strangers, scientists, bikers, romance novelists and children. Each offers diverse views on modern romance, as well as various answers to the age-old question: does true love really exist? Charlyne's pursuit to discover the nature of love takes on a fresh new urgency when she meets a boy after her own heart, Michael Cera. As their relationship develops on-camera, her relentless pursuit for answers jeopardizes her connection to the one person she finds closest to her heart. - Director:
- Nicholas Jasenovec
- Cast:
- Charlyne Yi, Michael Cera, Jake Johnson
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Simon Pegg stars as Sidney Young, a gate-crashing British journalist who loves exposing the shallowness of the celebrity world, yet desperately wants to join it. When he accepts an offer from renowned editor Clayton Harding (Jeff Bridges) to write for an ultra-chic magazine in Manhattan, Sidney finally gets to rub elbows with A-list celebrities but always manages to rub them the wrong way. His fellow writer, Alison Olsen (Kirsten Dunst), is powerless to stop Sidney when he sets his lustful sites on beautiful starlet Sophie Maes (Megan Fox). But when Sophie's publicist (Gillian Anderson) makes him a tempting offer, Sidney is finally poised to conquer the Big Apple or suffer the biggest humiliation of his life. - Director:
- Robert B. Weide
- Cast:
- Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Megan Fox
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In Treatment is set within the psychotherapy sessions of five patients. The first ever HBO half-hour drama features Paul (Gabriel Byrne), a therapist who exhibits great insight and confidence when treating his patients, but crippling insecurities while counseled by his own therapist, Gina (Dianne Wiest). Adding to his list of growing concerns, his wife, Kate (Michelle Forbes), is overcome with feelings of neglect and resents competing for his attention. Patients undergoing treatment with Paul include a young doctor (Melissa George) who has fallen in love with Paul, a Navy pilot (Blair Underwood) reevaluating his life after a failed mission in Iraq, a teenage gymnast (Mia Wasikowska) with suicidal tendencies and a passionate couple (Josh Charles and Embeth Davidtz) who are troubled in all other areas of their lives. - Director:
- Paris Barclay
- Cast:
- Gabriel Byrne, Michelle Forbes, Melissa George
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A harried workaholic, Michael Newman (Adam Sandler) doesn't have time for his wife (Kate Beckinsale) and children, not if he's to impress his ungrateful boss and earn a well-deserved promotion. So when he meets Morty (Christopher Walken), a loopy sales clerk, he gets him to bypass life's little distractions with increasingly hysterical results. But as Michael gleefully mutes, skips and scans past his family and his friends, the remote gradually takes over his life and begins to program him, in this fast, funny and out-of-control comedy adventure. - Director:
- Frank Coraci
- Cast:
- Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale, Christopher Walken
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Ray Eddy finds herself at wits end after her gambler husband disappears with the down payment on their new home. When an offer to transport cargo across the Canadian border presents opportunity to make some easy money, Ray has little idea that her action will place her life in danger and threaten her family future. - Director:
- Courtney Hunt
- Cast:
- Melissa Leo, Lance Delisle, Misty Upham
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Control is the story of the late Joy Division singer Ian Curtis's life, from the bands rise to fame to his tragic suicide. Control documents the relationships with both his wife and his girlfriend, his battle with epilepsy and the road to success with his band, Joy Division.
- Director:
- Anton Corbijn
- Cast:
- Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Craig Parkinson
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In this anti- romantic comedy about love and fate, a young greeting card writer (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is hopelessly, helplessly searching for the girl of his dreams...and his new co-worker, Summer Finn (Zooey Deschanel), may just be "the one. " But the 500 days of their offbeat relationship reveal (in no particular order) that the road to happiness can be unpredictable, uncontrollable — and unbelievably funny! - Director:
- Marc Webb
- Cast:
- Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Geoffrey Arend
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We all know fame is path to happiness, so when ze Austrian public get all jealous and boycott me, I realize it’s time for Bruno to take over ze world! I go to ze middle east to help, I join ze American army, go to swingers parties, do the talk shows, even go camping with grizzly boyfriends – plus ze accessory you shouldn’t be seen wivout – ze little black baby. Vassever – so how famous you think Bruno become? Put it zis way – next year you all be like Adolf who??! - Director:
- Larry Charles
- Cast:
- Sacha Baron Cohen, Gustaf Hammarsten, Clifford Bañagale
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They planned a Vegas bachelor party that they would never forget. Now they really need to remember what exactly went down! Whose baby is in the closet of their Caesars Palace suite? How did a tiger get in the bathroom? Why is one of them missing a tooth? And most of all, where is the groom?! What the guys did while partying can't compare to what they must do sober in an outrageous caper that has them piecing together all their bad decisions from the night before - one hazy clue at a time. - Director:
- Todd Phillips
- Cast:
- Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper, Justin Bartha
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Stephen K Amos has charmed and entertained audiences all over the world with his natural, assured delivery and his honest, original material. Amos is filled with an almost child-like joy and exuberance and can find the funny in some of the most unexpected places. Star of Montreal, Melbourne and Edinburgh festivals, he is a hit with critics and audiences alike and has a swagger of awards in tow. - Director:
- Not Available
- Cast:
- Stephen K. Amos
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