Movies In 2009
Director: Steve Shill
Stars: Idris Elba, Beyoncé Knowles, Ali Larter, Jerry O'Connell, Bonnie Perlman, Christine Lahti, Nathan Myers, Nicolas Myers, Matthew Humphreys
Storyline: Derek Charles is a hard working man employed as a asset manager in a private company. He is very happy with his beautiful wife Sharon and only son and because of his hard work he just got a huge promotion. But suddenly he gets a temporary worker who is both attractive and smart and Derek is understandably impressed with her and also finds himself physically drawn to her. However...
Director: Zack Snyder
Stars: Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Storyline: In a gritty and alternate 1985 the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown but after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited heroes set out to prevent their own destruction but in doing so discover a deeper and far more diabolical...
Director: Lee Daniels
Stars: Gabourey Sidibe, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd
Storyline: Claireece Precious Jones endures unimaginable hardships in her young life. Abused by her mother raped by her father she grows up poor angry illiterate fat unloved and generally unnoticed. So what better way to learn about her than through her own halting...
Director: Katherine Dieckmann
Stars: Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards, David Schallipp, Matthew Schallipp, Daisy Tahan, Alice Drummond, Stephanie Szostak, Celina Vignaud, Minnie Driver, Dale Soules, James Lecesne
Storyline: Eliza Kendall Welch Uma Thurman mother of Clara and Lucas lives with her spouse Avery McKendrik Anthony Edwards in an Manhattan apartment. Today is May 25th Claras 6th birthday and she has to make arrangements for a party as well as attend to day-to-day chores including Blogging and entering an online contest Motherhood and looking after her invalid elderly neighbor...
Director: Jorge Blanco, Javier Abad
Stars: Jessica Biel, John Cleese, Gary Oldman, Dwayne Johnson, Justin Long, Seann William Scott
Storyline: Lem is just an average teenager working on getting the girl and furthering his career at the local planetarium - except that hes an alien. At least to U.S. astronaut Captain Charles T. Baker who lands on Lems planet hoping for a quick flag plant and a hasty return to earth and his millions of screaming fans. But on this alien planet the media has tagged spacemen as brain-eating...
Director: Miguel Arteta
Stars: Michael Cera, Portia Doubleday, Jean Smart, Zach Galifianakis, Erik Knudsen, Adhir Kalyan, Steve Buscemi
Storyline: At 16 Nick Twisp is wry about his teen funk: he lives in Oakland with his sex-addled mother; his fathers child support is her meal ticket. While camping in Ukiah Nick meets Sheeni: for him its love at first sight. Nick has to figure out how to get his father a job in Ukiah then how to get sent to live with his father then how to get close to Sheeni whose religious parents may...
Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
Stars: Anika Noni Rose, Bruno Campos, Keith David, Michael-Leon Wooley, Jennifer Cody, Jim Cummings, Peter Bartlett, Jenifer Lewis
Storyline: A modern day retelling of the classic story The Frog Prince. The Princess and the Frog finds the lives of arrogant carefree Prince Naveen and hardworking waitress Tiana crossing paths. Prince Naveen is transformed into a frog by a conniving voodoo magician and Tiana following suit upon kissing the amphibian royalty. With the help of a trumpet-playing alligator a Cajun firefly and...
Director: Tom Hooper
Stars: Colm Meaney, Henry Goodman, David Roper, Jimmy Reddington, Oliver Stokes, Ryan Day, Michael Sheen
Storyline: Taking over Englands top football club Leeds United previously successful manager Brian Cloughs abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players dirty style of play make it certain there is going to be friction. Glimpses of his earlier career help explain both his hostility to previous manager Don Revie and how much he is missing right-hand man Peter Taylor who has loyally...
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Stars: Jimmy Bennett, Jake Short, Kat Dennings, Trevor Gagnon, Devon Gearhart, Jolie Vanier, Rebel Rodriguez
Storyline: A young boys discovery of a colorful wish-granting rock causes chaos in the suburban town of Black Falls when jealous kids and scheming adults alike set out to get their hands on...
Director: Rob Marshall
Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Sophia Loren, Kate Hudson, Judi Dench, Nicole Kidman, Stacy Ferguson, Sandro Dori
Storyline: Arrogant self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning purpose and a script for his latest film endeavor. With only a week left before shooting begins he desperately searches for answers and inspiration from his wife his mistress his muse and his mother. As his chaotic profession steadily destroys his personal life Guido must find a balance...
Director: Walt Becker
Stars: John Travolta, Robin Williams, Kelly Preston, Conner Rayburn, Ella Bleu Travolta, Lori Loughlin, Seth Green, Bernie Mac, Matt Dillon, Ann-Margret
Storyline: Charlie and Dan have been best friends and business partners for thirty years; their Manhattan public relations firm is on the verge of a huge business deal with a Japanese company. With two weeks to sew up the contract Dan gets a surprise: a woman he married on a drunken impulse nearly nine years before annulled the next day shows up to tell him hes the father of her twins now...
Director: James McTeigue
Stars: Rain, Naomie Harris, Ben Miles, Rick Yune, Randall Duk Kim, Sung Kang, Jonathan Chan-Pensley
Storyline: Trained since childhood to be a lethal killer Raizo has since turned his back on the Ozunu clan that raised him and now seeks revenge for their heartless murders. Teaming up with Europol investigator Mika Raizo steadily butchers his enemies while inching ever closer to the long-awaited bloody reunion with his former...
Director: Michael Mann
Stars: James Russo, David Wenham, Christian Stolte, Jason Clarke, Johnny Depp, John Judd, Stephen Dorff, Michael Vieau
Storyline: This is the story of the last few years of the notorious bank robber John Dillinger. He loved what he did and could imagine little else that would make him happier. Living openly in 1930s Chicago he had the run of the city with little fear of reprisals from the authorities. Its there that he meets Billie Frechette with whom he falls deeply in love. In parallel we meet Melvin Purvis...
Director: Guy Ritchie
Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong, Eddie Marsan, Robert Maillet, Geraldine James, Kelly Reilly
Storyline: After finally catching serial killer and occult sorcerer Lord Blackwood legendary sleuth Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson can close yet another successful case. But when Blackwood mysteriously returns from the grave and resumes his killing spree Holmes must take up the hunt once again. Contending with his partners new fiancée and the dimwitted head of Scotland Yard...
Director: Jason Reitman
Stars: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman, Amy Morton, Melanie Lynskey, J.K. Simmons, Sam Elliott, Danny McBride
Storyline: Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and just after hes met the frequent-traveler woman of his...
Director: Justin Lin
Stars: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, Michelle Rodriguez, John Ortiz, Laz Alonso, Gal Gadot, Jack Conley, Shea Whigham
Storyline: Heading back to the streets where it all began two men rejoin two women to blast muscle tuner and exotic cars across Los Angeles and floor through the Mexican desert. When a crime brings them back to L.A. fugitive ex-con Dom Toretto reignites his feud with agent Brian OConnor. But as they are forced to confront a shared enemy Dom and Brian must give in to an uncertain new trust if...
Director: David R. Ellis
Stars: Bobby Campo, Shantel VanSanten, Nick Zano, Haley Webb, Mykelti Williamson, Krista Allen, Andrew Fiscella
Storyline: In a car race in McKinley Speedway twenty-something Nick has a premonition of a deadly car crash with many casualties in the audience and convinces his girlfriend Lori and his friends Hunt and Janet to leave the place. They are followed by the security guard; a racist guy; a mother with her children and a mechanic that are saved from death. When the racist guy and the mother die in...
Director: Kevin Greutert
Stars: Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Mark Rolston, Betsy Russell, Shawnee Smith, Peter Outerbridge, Athena Karkanis, Samantha Lemole, Tanedra Howard
Storyline: Special Agent Strahm is dead and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaws legacy. However when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman he is forced to set a game into motion and Jigsaws grand scheme is finally...
Director: Toby Wilkins
Stars: Matthew Knight, Shawnee Smith, Mike Straub, Aiko Horiuchi, Shimba Tsuchiya, Emi Ikehata, Takatsuna Mukai, Johanna Braddy, Beau Mirchoff
Storyline: A young Japanese woman who holds the key to stopping the evil spirit of Kayako travels to the haunted Chicago apartment from the sequel to stop the curse of Kayako once and for all and save a family who are currently being haunted by her malicious...
Director: Phil Claydon
Stars: James Corden, Mathew Horne, MyAnna Buring, Vera Filatova, Paul McGann, Silvia Colloca
Storyline: Centuries ago Baron Wolfgang MacLaren vanquished the Vampire Queen Carmilla in the remote Cragwich; however before decapitating the evil vampire she curses the locals and descendants of the baron swearing that every woman would turn into a lesbian vampire on the eighteenth birthday. On the present days the clumsy and naive cuckold Jimmy is dumped again by his girlfriend Judy and...
Director: Danny Lerner
Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Gina May, Michael Paré, Bashar Rahal, James Chalke, Vladimir Vladimirov, Raicho Vasilev
Storyline: Mike Riggins an imprisoned ex-US Special forces operative in Eastern Europe is offered his freedom and money to rescue an American woman Ana Gale who has been kidnapped by a ruthless warlord. But shortly after freeing her Mike discovers that the kidnap story was just a ruse to bring Ana out into the open. Our hero suddenly finds himself and his charge being hunted by ruthless...
Director: Stephen Shimek
Stars: Kelly Stables, Brad Johnson, Newell Alexander, Erik Denton, Slate Holmgren, Adam Johnson, Brian King
Storyline: Orphaned as a baby when his parents were killed in a vicious orc attack Kendrick of Elwood was raised by his elder brother Darius. Though only nine at the time Darius devoted his life to Kendricks care and to purging orcs from their land. As Darius grew into a great warrior he sheltered Kendrick from all possible harm. Now after years of absence a new danger emerges more lethal...