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Rated: G (General Audience)
Staring:
Phil Harris,
Sebastian Cabot,
Louis Prima,
Bruce Reitherman,
George Sanders
Director:
Wolfgang Reitherman
Disney's 1967 animated feature seems even more entertaining now than it did upon first release, with a hall-of-fame vocal performance by Phil Harris as Baloo, the genial bear friend of feral child Mowgli. Based on fiction by Rudyard Kipling, the film goes its own way as Disney animation will, but the strong characters and smart casting (George Sanders as the villainous tiger, Shere Khan) make it one of the studio's stronger feature-length cartoons. Songs include "The Bare Necessities" and "Trust in Me." --Tom Keogh
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Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring:
Cher,
Nicolas Cage,
Vincent Gardenia,
Olympia Dukakis,
Danny Aiello
Remember the outfit Cher wore to the Oscars when she won an Academy Award for her performance in this 1987 film? Ay-yi-yi. The actress' more retiring character in this infectious comedy leaps several psychological hurdles just giving her hair a permanent. But then the original screenplay by John Patrick Shanley (Joe Versus the Volcano) is a wonderful, gently satirical tale of an Italian-American family dealing with repression and dissatisfaction against a backdrop of cultural expectations. Cher is focused and funny as a widow who feels she should marry an older fellow (Danny Aiello), but then falls for his black-sheep brother (Nicolas Cage). Olympia Dukakis and Vin...
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Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring:
Bradley Cooper,
Anna Friel,
Abbie Cornish,
Robert De Niro,
Andrew Howard
Director:
Neil Burger
Depending on your take-away of the visual inventiveness and jam-packed plot that drives Limitless to peaks and valleys of preposterous fun, drugs are either a terrible scourge or the fundamental solution to all of life's problems. Limitless isn't exactly a morality tale, but the made-up drug that turns Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper) from a scuzzy loser into a master of the universe does become a metaphor for ambition, menace, devastation, and ultimate success. Eddie is a writer who can't write, his girlfriend (Abbie Cornish) just dumped him, and his squalid lifestyle has driven him to the breaking point. After a chance meeting with his mysterious ex-brother-in...
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Cary Grant,
Katharine Hepburn,
James Stewart,
Ruth Hussey,
John Howard
Director:
George Cukor
Re-creating the role she originated in Philip Barry's wickedly witty Broadway play, Katharine Hepburn stars as the spoiled and snobby socialite Tracy Lord in this sparkling 1940 screen adaptation of The Philadelphia Story, one of the great romantic comedies from the golden age of MGM studios. Applying her impossibly high ideals to everyone but herself, Tracy is about to marry a stuffy executive when her congenial ex-husband (Cary Grant), arrives to protect his former father-in-law from a potentially scandalous tabloid exposé. In an Oscar-winning role, James Stewart is the scandal reporter who falls for Tracy as her wedding day arrives, throwing her into a dizzying...
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Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring:
Emma Roberts,
Jake T. Austin,
Don Cheadle,
Johnny Simmons,
Kyla Pratt
Director:
Thor Freudenthal
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Staring:
Will Ferrell,
Frank Welker,
Drew Barrymore,
David Cross,
Eugene Levy
Director:
Matthew O'Callaghan
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Rated: G (General Audience)
Staring:
Bruno Campos,
Anika Noni Rose,
Keith David,
Jenifer Lewis,
Jim Cummings
After the visual bombast of many contemporary CG and motion-capture features, the drawn characters in The Princess and the Frog, the Walt Disney Studio's eagerly awaited return to traditional animation, feel doubly welcome. Directed by John Musker and Ron Clements (The Little Mermaid, Aladdin), The Princess and the Frog moves the classic fairy tale to a snazzy version of 1920s New Orleans. Tiana (voice by Anika Noni Rose), the first African-American Disney heroine, is not a princess, but a young woman who hopes to fulfill her father's dream of opening a restaurant to serve food that will bring together people from all walks of life. Tiana may wi...
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Jason Bateman,
Michael Cera,
Portia de Rossi,
Will Arnett,
Alia Shawkat
Season One: Winner of the Outstanding Comedy Series Emmy its first year out, Arrested Development is the kind of sitcom that gives you hope for television. A mockumentary-style exploration of the beleaguered Bluth family, it's one of those idiosyncratic shows that doesn't rely on a laugh track or a studio audience; it's shot more like a TV drama, albeit with an omniscient narrator (executive producer Ron Howard) overseeing the proceedings. Holding the Bluths together just barely is son Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman), the only normal guy in a family that's chock full of nuts. Hardworking and sensible, Michael's certain he's going to be given control of his ...
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Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring:
Richard Dreyfuss,
Glenne Headly,
Jay Thomas,
Olympia Dukakis,
William H. Macy
An earnest and at times overblown story of a music teacher's impact on those around him, Mr. Holland's Opus is at times a genuinely touching drama in the vein of It's a Wonderful Life. Richard Dreyfuss (Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind) plays an aspiring composer and musician who takes a job teaching music at a local high school to save money while he composes his music. But when his wife (Glenne Headley) becomes pregnant, Glenn Holland must put aside his dreams and address the everyday realities of his life, from the melancholy and sometimes tragic fates of his students to the discovery that the son he cherishes is deaf. Building to a ...
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Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring:
Jodie Foster,
Anthony Hopkins,
Scott Glenn,
Anthony Heald,
Ted Levine
Director:
Jonathan Demme
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