Released date: 22 December 2008
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Director: Feng Xiaogang
Starring: Ge You, Shu Qi
Website: N/A
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Chin is a mediocre looking, middle-aged bachelor. A self-made entrepreneur, Chin has never had much luck in the love department. He puts out a personal ad on Match.com hoping to find a relationship, and after a string of bizarre encounters and bad dates, he finally strikes a chord with the beautiful Xiaoxiao. Feeling she's out of his league, Chin hesitated to further approach her, and instead develops an accidental friendship with Xiaoxiao. As they spend more time together, they find companionship in each other Xiaoxiao lighting up Chin's what was once a dull repetitive life, and Chin providing a shoulder to cry on as Xiaoxiao suffers through her heartbreak over a recent break-up. A story about love in comical situations, LET'S GO DUTCH depicts how difficult it often is to find the right person, but also how often we don't realize it when love hits us at the most unexpected times.
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Forever Enthralled (Mei Lan Fang)
Released date: 5 December 2008
Genres: Drama
Director: Kaige Chen
Starring: Leon Lai, Ziyi Zhang, Gillian Chung, Masanobu Ando, Hong Chen
Website: http://meilanfang.sina.com.cn/
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A biopic of the legendary Peking opera singer, Mei Lanfang.
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Angus, Thongs And Perfect Snogging
Released date: 18 December 2008
Genres: Comedy , Drama
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Starring: Georgia Groome, Eleanor Tomlinson, Aaron Johnson, Alan Davies, Karen Taylor, Liam Hess, Kimberley Nixon, Tommy Bastow
Website: http://www.angusthongsmovie.com/intl/uk/
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Georgia Nicolson is fourteen, lives with nosey parents who don't understand her, an annoying three year old sister and has to wear a beret to school. She would, however, rather be blonde, have a smaller nose and a boyfriend. Revolving around her hilarious journal entries, prepare to be engulfed in the world of the soaring joys and bottomless angst of being a teenager.
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Valkyrie
Released date: 26 December 2008
Genres: Drama, Thriller
Director: Bryan Singer
Starring: Tom Cruise, Christian Berkel, Kenneth Branagh, Kevin McNally, Carice van Houten, Bill Nighy, David Schofield, Terence Stamp
Website: http://valkyrie.unitedartists.com/
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At the height of WW2, a group of high-ranking German officers hatched a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, and seize power of the military command in order to end the war. The operation was codenamed "Valkyrie", for the emergency plan that was meant to be used in case of a revolt against the Nazi government. This plan had been modified by the conspirators to ensure their success, but for various reasons the plot failed when finally carried out on 20 July 1944. The conspirators of the inner circle were shot after a kangaroo trial or sentenced to death soon after.
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The Spirit
Released date: 25 December 2008
Genres: Action, Drama
Director: Frank Miller
Starring: Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendes
Website: http://www.mycityscreams.com/
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Down these mean streets a man must come. A hero born, murdered, and born again. When a Rookie cop named Denny Colt returns from the beyond as The Spirit, a hero whose mission is to fight against the bad forces from the shadows of Central City. The Octopus who kills anyone unfortunate enough to see his face who has other plans. He's going to wipe out the entire city. The Spirit tracks this cold hearted killer from the city's rundown warehouses, to the damp catacombs, to the windswept waterfront all the while facing a bevy of beautiful women who either want to seduce, love or kill the masked crusader.
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Marley & Me
Released date: 25 December 2008
Genres: Comedy
Director: David Frankel
Starring: Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston
Website: http://marleyandmemovie.com/
Synopsis:
A family learns important life lessons from their adorable, but naughty and neurotic dog.
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Released date: 25 December 2008
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Director: David Fincher
Starring: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett
Website: http://www.benjaminbutton.com/
Synopsis:
I was born under unusual circumstances. And so begins The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans from the end of World War I in 1918, into the 21st century, following his journey that is as unusual as any mans life can be. Benjamin Button, is a grand tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.
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Bedtime Stories
Released date: 25 December 2008
Genres: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Director: Adam Shankman
Starring: Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Guy Pearce, Teresa Palmer, Courteney Cox, Lucy Lawless, Russell Brand, Richard Griffiths, Aisha Tyler, Jonathan Pryce
Website: http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/bedtimestories/
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A family comedy about a hotel handyman whose life changes when the lavish bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to magically come true.
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The Tale of Despereaux
Released date: 19 December 2008
Genres: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
Director: Sam Fell , Robert Stevenhagen
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Emma Watson, Dustin Hoffman, Robbie Coltrane, Christopher Lloyd, Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman
Website: http://www.thetaleofdespereauxmovie.com/splash/
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The tale of three unlikely heroes - a misfit mouse who prefers reading books to eating them, an unhappy rat who schemes to leave the darkness of the dungeon, and a bumbling servant girl with cauliflower ears - whose fates are intertwined with that of the castle's princess.
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Seven Pounds
Released date: 19 December 2008
Genres: Drama
Director: Gabriele Muccino
Starring: Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, Michael Ealy, Barry Pepper
Website: http://www.sevenpounds.com/
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The emotional story of a man who will change the lives of seven strangers.
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The Brothers Bloom
Released date: 19 December 2008
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Rian Johnson
Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Adrien Brody, Rachel Weisz, Rinko Kikuchi, Andy Nyman, Maximillian Schell, Nora Zehetner
Website: http://www.brothersbloom.com/
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The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take on one last job - showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.
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Nothing Like The Holidays
Released date: 12 December 2008
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Director: Alfredo De Villa
Starring: John Leguizamo, Debra Messing, Freddy Rodriguez, Alfred Molina, Jay Hernandez, Luis Guzman, Melonie Diaz, Vanessa Ferlito
Website: N/A
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A Puerto Rican family living in the area of Humboldt Park in west Chicago face what may be their last Christmas together.
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The Day the Earth Stood Still
Released date: 12 December 2008
Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi
Director: Scott Derrickson
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly
Website: http://www.thedaytheearthstoodstillmovie.com/
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In the original movie, a flying saucer orbits Earth, and lands in Washington, DC, on the Mall. Klaatu steps out and is shot by a jumpy soldier. Gort, an indestructible robot, steps out of the spacecraft and proceeds to melt all the weapons, including tanks. Later, the Earth comes to realize that Gort has used very little of his power to make this happen.
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Delgo
Released date: 12 December 2008
Genres: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Director: Marc F. Adler, Jason Maurer
Starring: Freddie Prinze, Jr., Jennifer Love Hewitt, Anne Bancroft, Chris Kattan, Val Kilmer, Malcolm McDowell, Louis Gossett, Jr., Michael Clarke Duncan, Eric Idle, Kelly Ripa, Burt Reynolds
Website: http://www.delgo.com/
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In an exotic divided land, Delgo, an adventurous dreamer but naive teenager, must rally his group of troubled youth and some unlikely friends to protect their world from conflict between the terrestrial Lockni people, who harness the mysteries of the land. And the winged Nohrin people, who rule the skies. They live - segregated - in an uneasy peace until Delgo was framed for a crime he did not commit. After enlisting the help of a unlikely friend to escape a Nohri prison, Delgo discovers Imhoff is in danger so he must unite the two races against a common foe.
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Yes Man
Released date: 19 December 2008
Genres: Drama
Director: Peyton Reed
Starring: Jim Carrey, Terrence Stamp, Zooey Deschanel, Bradley Cooper, Rhys Darby, Danny Masterson
Website: http://yesisthenewno.warnerbros.com/
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Danny Wallace had been staying in. Far too much. Having been dumped by his girlfriend, he really wasn't doing the young, free and single thing very well. Instead, he was avoiding people. Texting them instead of calling them. Calling them instead of meeting them. That is until that one fateful date when a mystery man on a late-night bus told him to 'Say Yes more'. These three simple words changed Danny's life forever.
"Yes Man" is the story of what happened when Danny decided to say yes to everything, in order to make his life more interesting. And boy, did it get more interesting.
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