Rated:PG-13 Everything in social studies teacher Eugene Simonet's (Kevin Spacey) life is in order -- every shirt, every pencil, every person in its proper place. To keep the surface placid means never having to go deeper. And no one and nothing in his life has ever asked him to.
Arlene McKinney (Helen Hunt) is a single mother hanging on by her fingertips, working two jobs, and struggling to raise her son, Trevor (Haley Joel Osment). She is trying to give him a new life, but in her absence she is losing him.
Eugene gives Trevor's class an assignment: look at the world around you and fix what you don't like. But can you fix people?
Rated:R THE YARDS is a drama set in the vast New York City subway yards. After serving time in prison for taking the fall for a group of his friends, Leo Handler (MARK WAHLBERG) just wants to get his life back on track. So, Leo returns to the one place he thinks will be safe -- home. There, he takes a new job with his highly connected and influential Uncle Frank (JAMES CAAN), and is reunited with his longtime friend, Willie Guitierrez (JOAQUIN PHOENIX) and Willie's girlfriend Erica (CHARLIZE THERON). But in the yards, where his uncle now pulls the strings, safe is not how they do business. Unwittingly, he's drawn into a world of sabotage, high stakes pay-offs and even murder, when he discovers secrets that make him the target of the most ruthless family in the city ... his own. Now, in the name of justice he'll have to do everything in his power to take them down.
Rated:PG-13 Meet Elliot Richards, a well-meaning but socially inept technical-support advisor who is in love with Alison Gardner, a female co-worker. Unfortunately she barely knows he's alive. Desperate to gain Alison's affections, Elliot strikes a deal with the Devil - a lusty, drop-dead gorgeous woman with, as he'll soon discover, a wicked sense of humor. In exchange for Elliot's soul, the temptress will grant him seven wishes. To start, Elliot asks to be rich, powerful and married to Alison. When he awakens the next morning, he discovers he's all that and more - as a Colombian drug lord. No problem, he thinks, because he's got six more wishes. How about becoming the most emotionally sensitive man in the world? Sure, only Elliot ends up a sniveling, driveling fool. A 7' 6" basketball superstar? Elliot breaks all NBA records, but unfortunately his "equipment" doesn't measure up. Elliot is learning the hard way to be careful what he wishes for. Because the Devil, always a step ahead of him, is dishing up hilariously subversive versions of Elliot's desires, turning each of his new lives into a living hell.
Rated:R Dark, biting satire of the television industry, focusing on an Ivy-League educated black writer at a major network. Frustrated that his ideas for a "Cosby Show"-esque take on the black family has been rejected by network brass, he devises an outlandish scheme: reviving the minstrel show. The hook: instead of white actors in black face, the show stars black actors in even blacker face. The show becomes an instant smash, but with the success also comes repercussions for all involved.
Rated:R Real-life folk hero Wong Fei-Hung brings a 180-proof mix of courage and hilarity to the fight to save China's ancient heritage from foreign exploiters.
Wong is a master martial artist - a drunken master, it turns out, skilled in an ancient form of combat that involves a bobbing, weaving, cross-eyed style of fighting that throws his opponents completely off-balance. His stern father has strictly forbidden him to use the potentially shameful style, but when foreign gangsters threaten the nation, Wong has no choice but to defy all the ancient codes of tradition in order to save China's most sacred treasures.
Rated:PG-13 In the extreme world of the professional bullrider, there is a fine line between courage and recklessness. Although recovering from life-threatening injuries, rising star Ely Braxton (Marcus Thomas) is determined to follow in the footsteps of his legendary father and win the Professional Bullriding Championship.
His older brother Hank (Kiefer Sutherland), one of the best rodeo bullfighter/clowns in the business, knows better than to voice his objections to Ely's rebellious behavior. As Ely's rashness increases in and out of the ring, he engages in a casual affair with a woman on the circuit with whom Hank has long been infatuated (Daryl Hannah), which threatens to destroy the close bond between the brothers. Alienated from everyone he loves, Ely must face the most terrifying eight seconds of his life in pursuit of the championship.
Rated:R TWO FAMILY HOUSE is the story of a lovable loser in pursuit of an elusive dream. Buddy Visalo (Michael Rispoli), a frustrated singer with genuine talent, once had a shot at the big time. Discouraged from aiming too high by his pragmatic and often pessimistic wife, ESTELLE (Katherine Narducci), Buddy's modest dreams of greatness have been reduced to an endless series of failed moneymaking schemes. But this time, Buddy is certain he has come up with a plan that will work. He wants to buy a two family house for himself and Estelle. They will live upstairs and convert the ground floor into a neighborhood bar where Buddy can perform and play host to his customers.
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