In Movie Theaters the Week of January 21st, 20029 films are being released this week
| | Rated: PG Based on the 1999 novel by Nicholas Sparks, which was set in the 1950s, the story is about a modern-day small-town romance in North Carolina between two teenagers: the only son of a wealthy family and the town minister's quiet daughter. When they both join the town's Christmas pageant, the unlikely pair meet and fall in love. |
| | Rated: PG-13 Sam (Sean Penn), who has the mind of a 7-year-old, watches his daughter being taken away from him by social services. He seeks the assistance of a workaholic lawyer (Michelle Pfeiffer) and inadvertently teaches her that family is more important than career. |
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| Rated: PG-13 A one-man show with Oedekerk as director, screenwriter, and star, Kung Pow! is a martial arts spoof that borrows footage from other martial arts films and combines it with new footage featuring Oedekerk as the kung fu hero. |
| | Rated: R In 18th-century France, King Louis XV assigns a young detective to investigate a spate of murdered peasants, gruesome crimes that legend says were the work of a mysterious monster. |
| | Rated: NONE Based on the popular anime title, "Escaflowne" follows Hitomi, a Japanese high school girl, who escapes her reverie of depression on Earth by travelling to the alternate world of Gaia. There, she meets Van, an enigmatic young King, who will determine the fate of countries with a mystical dragon armor named Escaflowne. |
| | Rated: R Split into two segments, one titled "Fiction" the other "Non-Fiction," Storytelling details the fallout of a one-night stand between a college creative-writing professor and his student and follows a documentary filmmaker who finds a loser high-school student to capture on celluloid. |
| | Rated: PG In a town where "football is a way of life," a drifter joins the high school team and butts heads with the hard-nosed coach. |
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