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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