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"BRIDE WARS" -- Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway star as best friends who quickly become worst enemies when their wedding dates collide. Also starring Candice Bergen. Directed by Gary Winick. (PG, for suggestive content, language and some rude behavior.)
"GRAN TORINO" -- A strong-willed Korean War veteran confronts his biases when he begins dealing with his immigrant neighbors. Also starring Geraldine Hughes, Brian Haley and Christopher Carley. Directed by Eastwood. (R, for language throughout, and some violence.)
"THE READER" -- Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes star in the story of a young man's obsession with an older woman, whom he encounters again years later when she is on trial as a Nazi war criminal. Also starring Bruno Ganz. Directed by Stephen Daldry. (R, for some scenes of sexuality and nudity.)
"THE UNBORN" -- Screenwriter David S. Goyer ("The Dark Knight") makes his directorial debut with this thriller about a young woman who discovers she's the heir of a family curse. Starring Odette Yustman, Gary Oldman and Meagan Good. Written and directed by Goyer. (PG-13, for intense sequences of violence and terror, disturbing images, thematic material and language including some sexual references.)
HELD OVER
"AUSTRALIA" -- Director Baz Luhrmann's tale of an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) who inherits a ranch and with a rugged stockman (Hugh Jackman) drives 2,000 head of cattle across Australia. (PG-13, for some violence, a scene of sensuality and brief strong language.)
"BEDTIME STORIES" -- Adam Sandler stars as a hotel handyman who inexplicably finds the outrageous tales he spins for his niece and nephew coming true. Also starring Guy Pearce, Keri Russell and Russell Brand. Directed by Adam Shankman. (PG, for some mild rude humor and mild language.)
"BOLT" (3-D) -- Miley Cyrus and John Travolta provide the lead voices in the computer-animated "Bolt," a family flick about a dog that plays a superhero on TV but must scrape by on his ordinary canine abilities on a cross-country trek home. Directed by Chris Williams. (PG, for some mild action and peril.)
"THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON" -- Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett star in an adaptation of an F. Scott Fitzgerald story that traces the strange life of a man born in his 80s who ages backward toward infancy. Also starring Tilda Swinton and Julia Ormond. Directed by David Fincher. (PG-13, for brief war violence, sexual content, language and smoking.)
"THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL" -- Keanu Reeves stars in this remake of the 1951 classic as the extra-
terrestrial Klaatu, who warns mankind its days are numbered. Also starring Jennifer Connelly and Kathy Bates. Directed by Scott Derrickson. (PG-13, for some sci-fi disaster images and violence.)
"DOUBT" -- Two nuns in the 1960s Bronx confront their deepest-held beliefs about the church and human nature when they disagree about the behavior of a priest at their parish school. Starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis. Written and directed by John Patrick Shanley. (PG-13, for thematic material.)
"FOUR CHRISTMASES" -- Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn suffer through the ultimate holiday horror -- four separate family gatherings with parents, stepparents, siblings and other kin. Also starring Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Jon Voight, Mary Steenburgen and Jon Favreau. Directed by Seth Gordon. (PG-13, for some sexual humor and language.)
"MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA" -- The former Central Park zoo dwellers (voiced by Ben Stiller, Bernie Mac, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jada Pinkett Smith and David Schwimmer) hook up with their multi-
generational families in the wilds of Africa. Directed by Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath. (PG, for some mild crude humor.)
"MARLEY & ME" -- Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson star in an adaptation of John Grogan's book about a neurotic white Labrador whose mischievous ways keep him in the doghouse with his exasperated owners. Also starring Alan Arkin. Directed by David Frankel. (PG, for thematic material, some suggestive content and language.)
"QUANTUM OF SOLACE" -- James Bond (Daniel Craig), vengeful over the death of his love in "Casino Royale," takes on a phony environmentalist trying to control water supplies. Also starring Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench and Jeffrey Wright. Directed by Marc Foster. (PG-13, for intense sequences of violence and action, and some sexual content.)
"SEVEN POUNDS" -- Will Smith stars in this serious drama about an IRS agent driven to change the lives of seven strangers. Also starring Rosario Dawson, Barry Pepper and Woody Harrelson. Directed by Gabriele Muccino. (PG-13, for thematic material, some disturbing content and a scene of sensuality.)
"THE SPIRIT" -- Graphic novelist Frank Miller ("300")
directs this story of a resurrected crimefighter battling a villain with a destructive scheme to achieve immortality. Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendes and Gabriel Macht. (PG-13, for intense sequences of stylized violence and action, some sexual content and brief nudity.)
"THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX" -- An all-star cast brings to life this animated adaptation of the Newbery Award-winning book about a brave little mouse, an unhappy rat and a clumsy servant girl. With the voices of Matthew Broderick, Emma Watson, Dustin Hoffman and Sigourney Weaver. Directed by Sam Fell and Robert Stevenhagen. (G.)
"TRANSPORTER 3" -- Jason Statham returns as the world's most lethal delivery man. Also starring Natalya Rudakova. Directed by Olivier Megaton. (PG-13, for sequences of intense action and violence, some sexual content and drug material.)
"TWILIGHT" -- The publishing sensation comes to Hollywood in this tale of an eternally young vampire (Robert Pattinson) and his teen soul mate (Kristen Stewart) canoodling in Forks, Wash. Also starring Elizabeth Reaser, Peter Faccinelli, Ashley Greene and Nikki Reed. Based on Stephenie Meyer's best-seller. Directed by Catherine Hardwicke. (PG-13, for some violence, a scene of sensuality.)
"VALKYRIE" -- Tom Cruise stars in the true story of a Nazi colonel who tries to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Also starring Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson and Eddie Izzard. Directed by Bryan Singer. (PG-13, for violence and brief strong language.)
"YES MAN" -- Jim Carrey plays a harried businessman who says no to everything, until he decides to turn his drab life around by saying yes to anything. Also starring Zooey Deschanel and Bradley Cooper. Directed by Peyton Reed. (PG-13, for crude sexual humor, language and brief nudity.)
-- Compiled by the Yakima Herald-Republic
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