Four high school friends plan to ride out their senior year taking easy classes, including a program for housing foreign exchange students and eventually all attending Ohio State. Hurdles befall each of the four: grades, higher aspirations, love. Is it the Foreign Exchange students that learn from their host or the hosts that do more of the learning?
Forgetting Sarah Marshall is a romantic comedy drama about a guy who tries to get over his high profile ex-girlfriend. Peter Bretter (Jason Segel) is a struggling musician who is left heartbroken after his TV star girlfriend of six years, Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell), dumps him. Peter unsuccessfully tries to become a womanizer and after suffering a nervous breakdown, that nearly cost him his job, he decides to go on a vacation to Hawaii. However, fate plays a cruel joke as Sarah also comes to exactly the same resort, along with her new rock-star boyfriend Aldous (Russell Brand). Sarah’s new lifestyle causes pain to Peter as he finds comfort with a flirtatious resort employee Rachel (Mila Kunis) and other oddballs.
Directed by Seth Gordon, Four Christmases is a comedy drama about an upscale happily married couple Brad and Kate who are forced to spend their Christmas holiday visiting all four of their divorced parents. Kate and Brad find themselves stranded at the airport when all departing flights are cancelled, and with an overzealous television reporter breathing down their neck they are forced to go to four different households to visit Kate mothers Marilyn (Mary Steenburgen), and her pastor father Phil (Dwight Yoakam). They also visit gruff father of Brad, Howard (Robert Duvall), and his bullying brothers, Dallas (Jon Favreau) and Denver (Tim McGraw) besides his New Age mother, Paula (Sissy Spacek).
The Invasion of Laxdale is a comedy/horror film aimed squarely at teenage males. In the small town of Laxdale, former NHLer Bill Swanson and local waitress Gina Larson believe that some mysterious crop circles are connected to a group of "foreign investors" who have purchased the local granary.
When a dead body turns up and it's not human, Bill and Gina discover that these off-worlders are time-share developers who are planning to turn the earth into a Club Med for aliens. The duo must find a way to stop them before all humankind ends up working for minimum wage in the hospitality industry.
A desperate single mother living in upstate New York resorts to smuggling illegal immigrants into the United States as a means of making ends meet in first-time feature director/screenwriter Courtney Hunt's emotionally wrenching drama, winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Dramatic Feature at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Ray Eddy is in an impossible position; its two days before Christmas and her husband has suddenly disappeared with all of the family savings. Now, as the newly single mother of two realizes the futility of attempting to cover the house payments on her meager Yankee One Dollar Store wages, her children are forced to exist on a nutritionally devoid diet of popcorn and Tang. Deciding that her only hope for survival is to find a man who will support her and her children, Ray sets out to find a husband but instead makes the acquaintance of street-smart Mohawk Lila Little wolf. Lila, too, has been struggling to keep her head above water amidst economic despair, and has recently stumbled across a rather unconventional solution to her dire financial situation. Lately, Lila has been earning a living by smuggling illegal immigrants into the U.S., but her tribal elders vehemently disapprove of the scheme and have recently attempted to stop it by forbidding the local auto dealers from selling her a car. As fate would have it, Ray's Dodge Spirit may just be the only thing the destitute mother can count on anymore, and as this unlikely pair gas up the tank for a daring dash across the iced-over St. Lawrence River, their fates become forever intertwined in ways that neither could have ever anticipated.
Filmmaker Jason Freeland draws inspiration from the eponymous song for this tale of five lost souls attempting to navigate the treacherous urban landscape of contemporary Los Angeles. April is an ambitious beauty in search of success, but can she learn to get by and keep on her clothes at the same time? Sally St. Clair is a sexy realtor with a secret past. She's got a great eye for spotting lost souls, and thrives on giving them direction in life. One of those lost souls is Nathan, her new assistant. Nathan moved to Los Angeles from Nebraska seeking to find success as a dancer, but now most of his time is spent making photocopies for Sally and her clients. One of those clients is Todd, a porn-addicted artist who agrees to help Sally get revenge for a past indiscretion in exchange for her helping him realize his greatest fantasy. Meanwhile, as starry-eyed street musician Sammy moves in with Nathan, the new roommates both have disparate ideas about the direction their relationship is headed, and everyone involved becomes hopelessly ensnared in Sally's kinky entanglements.
Bertram Pincus is a man whose people skills leave much to be desired. When Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts. Even worse, they all want something from him, particularly Frank Herlihy who pesters him into breaking up the impending marriage of his widow Gwen. That puts Pincus squarely in the middle of a triangle with spirited result.
William Atherton, Erin Gray, James DiBello, and Kristen Renton headline this horror film concerning an American college student who makes a horrifying discovery about her supernatural heritage while traveling through Eastern Europe in search of her family. Upon receiving news that her long-lost Romanian grandmother has died American student Jen (Renton) and her father (Atherton) book a flight to the old country in order to properly pay their respects. Once there, Jen meets a mysterious ghost hunter who claims that the local woods are haunted by horrifying mystical creatures that prey on the innocent locals. Upon discovering her connection to the evil creatures that plague the remote town, Jen and her brave new companion must team up to prevent the ghouls who once ruled the planet from realizing their plans to once again claim the Earth as their own.
Teenage gnome Junior wants nothing more than to invent gizmos and gadgets in his tree-house laboratory. But Junior's father, Jalle, the head gnome of the forest, would prefer his son to follow in his footsteps and one day be in charge of his own forest. In spite of their differences, on the eve of the first winter storm Junior helps Jalle distribute food rations to the soon-to-be-hibernating animals. But then disaster strikes and troll brothers Face and Slim execute their evil father's plan to steal the food from the gnome secret food chamber. Junior and his best friend Sneaky, a paranoid neurotic crow, embark on a heroic journey to the depths of troll cave to retrieve the stolen food.
Directed by Clint Eastwood, Gran Torino is the story of a racist, prejudiced and displeased Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood), who refuses to adapt to the changes in his crime-ridden Michigan neighbourhood and the world around him. When his young Hmong neighbour, Thao (Bee Vang), tries to steal his most prized possession, the 1972 Gran Torino, his well-maintained semi-automatic rifle, which saved his life numerous times during the war, Walt decides to reform the teenager. During his reform process, Walt is unwillingly drawn into the life of Thaos family, and soon finds himself not only facing his own blinding prejudice head-on, but also protecting the family from the various gangs that swarm the neighbourhood.
