In Movie Theaters the Week of
April 21st, 200313 films are being released this week
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Rated: R
This is the story of ten complete strangers who are stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm who soon find themselves being murdered... as their numbers thin out, they turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who is the killer. |
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Rated: R
This documentary tells the true story of 12 strangers picked to go to Cancun, Mexico on spring break together to find out what happens when college students stop being sober and start getting real. Specifically, this movie will focus on the relationships that are formed during their time in the sun... as well as the drinking, carousing, public displays of affection and other wild times that are likely to occur while America's youngest and brightest are visiting our nation's southern neighbor. |
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Rated: R
A master con man Jake Vig (Burns) swindles a few thousand dollars from an unsuspecting victim who turns out to be an accountant for a major crime kingpin (Hoffman). Unable to return the money, Jake and his crew offer to pull off a big con to repay their debt. Although the con looks to be going awry, the con men prove to be one step ahead. |
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Rated: PG-13
Alex Gromberg (Michael Douglas) is a man caught in the middle. Trying to avoid the mistakes his father made while coming to terms with the ones he's already passed on to his own sons, Alex is navigating the tricky roles of father, son, and husband. |
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Rated: R
Jimmy, a con man from New York, is on the run from an investigation into an insurance scam. He's looking for his mentor and partner in the scam Marvin who Jimmy thinks is in Cambodia. When he gets there he gets more than what he bargained for in his search for Marvin. |
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Rated: R
Caught up in the endless Manhattan nights, the man who's made it his business to know everything suddenly realizes he knows too much. Smart, resourceful and uncommonly devoted seasoned publicist Eli Wurman (Pacino) has smoothly managed the public lives of the rich, the famous and the incredibly powerful throughout his long career. There has never been a crisis he couldn't handle... until now. Cary Launer (O'Neal) is a famous actor - he's as good at manipulating and controlling those around him as he is at giving award-winning performances. Yet Launer is in trouble over a young starlet, Jilli (Leoni) and enlists Eli to discreetly escort her out of his life. It seems like just one more celebrity baby-sitting job, until they arrive at an after-hours party, where Eli experiences a shock that will change his life forever. The crime he's witnessed involves the most powerful and influential people in the country. In the end, Eli discovers one undeniable truth: it's who you know. |
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Rated: R
This is the story of a violent teenager (Gordon-Levitt) in a mental institution against his will, instead of a criminal institution. Through his journey he is befriended by a bipolar young man (Bacall), and the girl whom he falls in love with (Descanel). This group of troubled teens is lead by a recovering drug addict in the form of Dr. David Monroe (Cheadle). |
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Rated: R
Set in 1996, this is the true story of the patients of a Russian psychiatric asylum (in Caucasus, on the border between Chechnya and Ingushetia) who become involved with the Chechen War after their doctors, nurses and attendants abandon them (to find buses to move them elsewhere), and a band of Chechen soldiers arrives to set up camp. Central to the story is a young female patient, Janna (Vysotskaya) who falls in love with a Chechen soldier, Ahmed (Islamov), abandoning her boyfriend, Canadian pop singer Bryan Adams (playing himself), who appears to her as a hallucination singing his hit, "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?". |
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Rated: R
This documentary will examine the decade of the 1970's as a crucial turning point in the history of American film, with some of the best filmmakers of today interview the influential directors of the 1970's. Demme described the inspiration, talking to Variety, "Our goal is to write a love letter to the artists that made the '70's the greatest decade in American filmmaking... The thing that motivated us was to keep alive the stories of these great artists." |
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Rated: NONE
Giant cavemen stalk the meek through a rear projection landscape. Driverless automobiles smash a predecessor into a chrome mouth piece. Such is the wordless world of Matthew Barney's CREMASTER series. The five-part epic culminates, oddly enough, in CREMASTER 3, one of a myriad of peculiarities in the avant-garde series that moved from the museum circuit to packed art houses.
Intrigue leads to mayhem for taskmasters toiling in a highly stylized Chrysler building. At the forefront is a blue collar man (sculptor Richard Serra) whose work in the immaculate building is rewarded with a horse muzzling, knocking his teeth out. A bizarre operation is performed, replacing his jaw with a chrome implant. While this proletariat's innards seep out, a wayward savage (Barney) appears. Upon proving his worth, he also is bestowed chrome, a medal. A violent conclusion hammers home the idea of man's fruitless search during a chaotic Guggenheim hootenanny complete with a kick line, a nude cheetah lady (double amputee Aimee Mullins), and a war between punk bands Agnostic Front and Murphy's Law. This narrative of Barney's three-hour series finale is less important than juxtaposition and iconography in a film obsessed with medallions, triangular blocks, and the pentagonal Chrysler logo. |
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Rated: R
They all know they can play -- they've got the moves to prove it. The boys from Sunset Park High are gifted young basketball players with a dream of being the best... not of getting bossed around by the new -- and female -- coach. But Phyllis Saroka (Rhea Perlman) has other ideas.
By believing in this team, Phyllis helps transform this talented group of mixed-up kids into a winning team that makes it all the way to the city championships. In the process, coach and teammates alike manage to find their own particular talent for the game, as well as their own ability to believe in themselves. |
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