Director: Rob Reiner
Adaptation of Wendelin Van Draanen’s young-adult novel, “Flipped.” The book, published in 2001 by Knopf, revolves around the confusing romantic developments of antagonistic boy and girl neighbors who eventually share a kiss when they reach their teens. The story takes place from 1957-63 as the kids grow up from ages 7 to 13.
Director: Zack Snyder
An animated feature film based on the series of children’s books by Kathryn Lasky. The film is set in the Forest of Tyto, where Barn Owls live in peace until their kingdom is threatened by an evil that could destroy their home.
Director: Nanette Burstein
An observational comedy about a young couple (Barrymore and Long) navigating their way through the perils of a long distance relationship who quickly discover that “going the distance” might cost them everything they have, including one another.
After his 6-year-old daughter and her friend are kidnapped, a small-town carpenter butts heads with a young, brash detective in charge of the investigation. The father is a Bible-reading, deer-hunting survivalist. The cop, meanwhile, can’t wait to get to the city. Feeling failed by the law, the father captures the man he believes responsible and begins to torture him in a desperate attempt to find out what he did with the girls, whom he’s convinced are still alive.
Director: Todd Phillips
An expectant dad and his unlikely travel companion (Galifianakis) race cross-country in hopes of making it home for the birth of his first child.
Director: David Yates
Part one of the final chapter in the Harry Potter saga.
Director: Clint Eastwood
An original supernatural thriller in the vein of The Sixth Sense written by Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon).
Director: Eric Brevig
Tom Cavanagh is the male lead and romantic interest of a documentary filmmaker (Anna Faris) who comes to Jellystone Park to shoot a film. Dan Aykroyd’s voicing the title character and Justin Timberlake his sidekick Boo-Boo in the feature version based on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon series.
Director: Greg Berlanti
Follows two unattached adults whose worlds are turned upside down when their mutual best friends die in an accident and name them as caregivers of their orphaned daughter.
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