About
Schmidt
Jack's back. This time out Nicholson plays retiree and recently widowed
Warren Schmidt. Confused as to his station in life, Schmidt sets out in
his Winnebago to attend his daughter's wedding. En route, things continue
to go from bad to worse for him. But his written musings to a poor
Tanzanian boy he's sponsoring allows him to see his past and his present
through entirely different eyes. Dec. 20
Adaptation
In this offering from director Spike Jonze, a neurotic Hollywood
screenwriter (Nicolas
Cage) has taken on the task of adapting an acclaimed nonfiction book.
One day, in a fit of delusional genius, he inserts a couple of car crash
scenes and some gunfights into the screenplay which is supposed to be
about an eccentric Orchid
collector. Dec. 6
Antwone
Fisher
Denzel Washington
directs himself in this film about a one-time Sony Pictures security guard
who finds success in Hollywood as a writer-producer. Before making the
leap from security guard to Hollywood player, Fisher received anger
management help from a Navy psychiatrist and then embarked on a
life-changing journey to find the family that abandoned him as an infant.
The script was written by the real-life Antwone Fisher. Dec.
20 |
Catch
Me If You Can
One
of the two films that Leonardo
DiCaprio appears in this holiday season.
Here he plays in the true story of Frank Abagnale, the youngest man to
ever have his picture in a post office on the FBI's most-wanted list.
Abagnale was an imposter extraordinaire posing, at various times, as a
doctor, history professor and airline pilot while cashing more than $6
million in fraudulent checks. Tom
Hanks is the FBI agent on his trail. Steven
Spielberg directs.
Dec. 25
Chicago
Renée Zellweger
is Roxie Hart, a 1920s Windy City flapper with a view to fame on the
Vaudeville stage - just like her idol, Chicago club sensation Velma Kelly
(Catherine
Zeta-Jones). After Roxie guns down a casting-couch producer, she's
sent to prison where she finally gets the attention she craves after a P.T.
Barnumesque lawyer (Richard
Gere) agrees to take her case to the court of public opinion. Dec.
25
Confessions
of a Dangerous Mind
George
Clooney directs and stars in this film adapted from the book of the
same name by former Gong Show host Chuck Barris. In the book,
Barris asserts that he was a CIA assassin who plied his lethal trade under
the pretense of chaperoning game show contestants who'd won vacation
prizes. Sam
Rockwell and Drew
Barrymore also star. Jan. 10
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