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Stop-Loss (2008 )

Decorated Iraq war hero Sgt. Brandon King makes a celebrated return to his small Texas hometown following his tour of duty. Brandon tries to resume the life he left behind with the help and support of his family and his best friend, Steve Shriver, who served with him in Iraq. Alongside their war-time buddies, Brandon and Steve try to make peace with civilian life. Then, against Brandon's will, the...

Genres: Drama and War

Release Date: March 28th, 2008 (wide)

MPAA Rating: R for graphic violence and pervasive language.

Distributors: Paramount Pictures

Cast and Credits

Starring: Ryan Phillippe, Abbie Cornish, Channing Tatum, Timothy Olyphant, Ciaran Hinds
Directed by: Kimberly Ane Peirce
Produced by: Kimberly Ane Peirce, Scott Rudin, Mark Roybal

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Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008 )

A charming but oblivious overweight guy leaves his fiancee on their wedding day only to discover years later that he really loves her. To win her back, he must finish a marathon while making her realize that her new handsome, wealthy fiance is the wrong guy for her.

Genres: Art/Foreign and Comedy

Running Time: 1 hr. 40 min.

Release Date: March 28th, 2008 (wide)

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some rude and sexual behavior, nudity, language and smoking.

Distributors: Picturehouse

Cast and Credits

Starring: Simon Pegg, Hank Azaria, Thandie Newton, Ameet Chana, Dylan Moran
Directed by: David Schwimmer
Produced by: Alexa L. Fogel, Joseph Infantolino, Nigel Green (II)

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21 (2008 )

The true story of the very brightest young minds in the country - and how they took Vegas for millions. Ben Campbell is a shy, brilliant M.I.T. student who -- needing to pay school tuition -- finds the answers in the cards. He is recruited to join a group of the school's most gifted students that heads to Vegas every weekend armed with fake identities and the know-how to turn the odds at blackjack...

Genres: Drama, Crime/Gangster and Adaptation

Running Time: 2 hrs. 2 min.

Release Date: March 28th, 2008 (wide)

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some violence, and sexual content including partial nudity.

Distributors: Sony Pictures Releasing

Cast and Credits

Starring: Kevin Spacey, Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Laurence Fishburne, Liza LaPira
Directed by: Robert Luketic
Produced by: William Beasley, Brett Ratner, Ryan Kavanaugh

[Dokhtar Bandari]

Euripides' play follows the fates of the women of Troy after their city has been sacked, their husbands killed, and as their remaining families are about to be taken away as slaves. However, it begins first with the gods Athena and Poseidon discussing ways to punish the Greek armies because they condoned Ajax the Lesser for raping Cassandra in Athena's temple. What follows shows how much the Trojan women have suffered as their grief is compounded when the Greeks dole out additional deaths and divide their shares of women.

The Greek herald Talthybius arrives to tell the dethroned queen Hecuba what will befall her and her children. Hecuba will be taken away with the Greek general Odysseus, and her daughter Cassandra is slated to become the conquering general Agamemnon's concubine. Cassandra, who has been driven partially mad due to a curse by which she can see the future but will never be believed when she warns others, is morbidly delighted by this news: she sees that when they arrive in Argos, her new master's embittered wife Clytemnestra will kill both her and her new master. However, because of the curse, no one understands this response, and Cassandra is carried off.

The widowed princess Andromache arrives, and Hecuba learns from her that her youngest daughter, Polyxena, has been killed as a sacrifice at the tomb of the Greek warrior Achilles.

Andromache's lot is to be the concubine of Achilles' son Neoptolemus, and more horrible news for the royal family is yet to come: Talthybius reluctantly informs her that her young son, Astyanax, has been condemned to die. The Greek leaders are afraid that the boy will grow up to avenge his father Hector, and rather than take this chance, they plan to throw him off from the battlements of Troy to his death.

Helen, though not one of the Trojan women, is supposed to suffer greatly as well: Menelaus arrives to take her back to Greece with him where a death sentence awaits her. Helen begs her husband to spare her life and he remains resolved to kill her, but the audience watching the play knows that in the Odyssey, Telemachus will learn how Helen's legendary beauty wins her a reprieve.

In the end, Talthybius returns carrying with him the body of little Astyanax on Hector's shield. Andromache's wish had been to bury her child herself, performing the proper rituals according to Trojan ways, but her ship had already departed. Talthybius gives the corpse to Hecuba, who prepares the body for burial before they are finally taken off with Odysseus.

Throughout the play, many of the Trojan women lament the loss of the land that reared them. Hecuba in particular lets it be known that Troy had been her home for her entire life, only to see herself as an old grandmother watching the burning of Troy, the death of her husband, her children, and her grandchildren before she will be taken as a slave to Odysseus.

YouTube - "The Trojan Women" (1971 film) - Helen (Irene Papas) pleads

[Dokhtar Bandari]

The Trojan Women

An amazing movie with a lot of rhetorics and drama to the kilt... Though in the mythology they have Helen as the daughter of Zeus and Aphrodite... the history has it that she was daughter of Darious... I kidd you not, and it would be so like us dokhtarayeh ironi ke ye hamchin ateshee be pa konim...lol

here is the plot:
The Trojan Women (in Greek, Troiades) is a tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides. Produced during the Peloponnesian War, it is often considered a commentary on the capture of the Aegean island of Melos and the subsequent slaughter and subjugation of its populace by the Athenians earlier in 415 BC (see Milos), the same year the play premiered. 415 BC was also the year of the scandalous desecration of the hermai and the Athenians' second expedition to Sicily, events which may also have influenced the author.

The Trojan Women was the third tragedy of a trilogy of dealing with the Trojan War. The first tragedy, Alexandros, was about the recognition of the Trojan prince Paris who had been abandoned in infancy by his parents and rediscovered in adulthood. The second tragedy, Palamedes, dealt with Greek mistreatment of their fellow Greek Palamedes. This trilogy was presented at the Dionysia along with the comedic satyr play Sisyphos. The plots of this trilogy were not connected in the way that Aeschylus' Oresteia was connected. Such connected trilogies were not favored by Euripides.

Euripides did not win the competition with this trilogy in 415 BC, and was beaten by the playwright Xenocles.

The four Trojan women of the play are the same that appear in the final chapter of the Iliad lamenting over the corpse of Hector. Taking place near the same time is Hecuba, another play by Euripides.

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Romulus, My Father (2008 )

Romulus Gaita has immigrated to Victoria, Australia from his native Yugoslavia with his beautiful German wife, Christina, and their young son, Raimond, in search of a better life. Here, on a lonely and harsh rural homestead, Romulus cares for his wife and son, making a living as a blacksmith and farm laborer. But the glamorous Christina feels increasingly out of place and depressed in this desolate...

Running Time: 1 hr. 43 min.

Release Date: February 29th, 2008 (limited)

MPAA Rating: R for sexuality, some violence and brief language.

Distributors: Magnolia Pictures

Cast and Credits

Starring: Eric Bana, Franka Potente, Marton Csokas, Russell Dykstra, Jacek Koman
Directed by: Richard Roxburgh
Produced by: Gary Hamilton (II), Victor Syrmis, Andrew Myer

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City of Men (2008 )

Growing up in a culture dictated by violence and run by street gangs, teenagers Acerola and Laranjinha have become close as brothers. With their eighteenth birthdays fast approaching, Laranjinha sets out to find the father he never met, while Acerola struggles to raise his own young son. But when they suddenly find themselves on opposite sides of a gang war, the lifelong friends are forced to confront...

Genres: Art/Foreign, Drama and Sequel

Running Time: 1 hr. 45 min.

Release Date: February 29th, 2008 (limited)

MPAA Rating: R for violent content, language and some sexuality.

Distributors: Miramax Films

Cast and Credits

Starring: Douglas Silva, Darlan Cunha, Jonathan Haagensen, Rodrigo Dos Santos, Luciano Vidigal
Directed by: Paulo Morelli
Produced by: Fernando Meirelles, Paulo Morelli, Andrea Barata Ribeiro

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Bonneville (2008 )

When Arvilla Holden promises her husband that she'll cremate him and scatter his ashes, she doesn't expect her promise to be called so soon, or to lead to a high-stakes fight with her stepdaughter Francine, a Santa Barbara socialite determined to give him a proper burial. Convinced that she has no choice but to surrender the ashes to Francine, Arvilla sets off on a journey from Pocatello, Idaho to...

Genres: Drama

Running Time: 1 hr. 44 min.

Release Date: February 29, 2008 (limited)

MPAA Rating: PG for some mild language and innuendo.

Distributors: SenArt Films

Cast and Credits

Starring: Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Joan Allen, Christine Baranski, Victor Rasuk
Directed by: Christopher N. Rowley
Produced by: R. Michael Bergeron, Bob Brown, Robert May

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Semi-Pro (2008 )

Jackie Moon is one-hit wonder who used the profits from the success of his chart-topping song "Love Me Sexy" to achieve his dream of owning a basketball team. But Moon's franchise, the Flint Michigan Tropics, is the worst team in the league and in danger of folding when the ABA announces its plans to merge with the NBA. If they want to survive, Jackie and the Tropics must now do the seemingly impossible...

Genres: Comedy and Sports

Release Date: February 29th, 2008 (wide)

Distributors: New Line Cinema

Cast and Credits

Starring: Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson, Andre 'Andre 3000' Benjamin, Jay Phillips, Will Arnett
Directed by: Kent Alterman
Produced by: Lauren Shuler Donner, David Householter, Jimmy Miller

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Penelope (2008 )

A modern day romantic tale about a young girl's inspiring journey, a mysterious family secret and the power of love. With all odds against her, in order for Penelope to break the family curse, she must find true love with "one of her own kind." The warm and funny adventure leads her to realize the most important life lesson, "I like myself the way I am." Penelope Wilhern, born to wealthy socialites,...

Genres: Art/Foreign, Comedy, Drama and Science Fiction/Fantasy

Running Time: 1 hr. 41 min.

Release Date: February 29th, 2008 (wide)

MPAA Rating: PG for thematic elements, some innuendo and language.

Distributors: Summit Entertainment, LLC

Cast and Credits

Starring: Christina Ricci, Reese Witherspoon, James McAvoy, Catherine O'Hara, Peter Dinklage
Directed by: Mark Palansky
Produced by: Dylan Russell, Robin Greenspun, Danny Greenspun

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The Other Boleyn Girl (2008 )

Two sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, are driven by their ambitious Father and Uncle to advance the family's power and status by courting the affections of the King of England. Leaving behind the simplicity of country life, the girls are thrust into the dangerous and thrilling world of court life--and what began as a bid to help their family develops into a ruthless rivalry between Anne and Mary for the...

Genres: Drama and Adaptation

Running Time: 1 hr. 55 min.

Release Date: February 29th, 2008 (wide)

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for mature thematic elements, sexual content and some violent images.

Distributors: Sony Pictures Releasing, Focus Features

Cast and Credits

Starring: Natalie Portman, Eric Bana, Scarlett Johansson, Tiffany Freisberg, Eddie Redmayne
Directed by: Justin Chadwick
Produced by: Scott Rudin, David M. Thompson, Alison Owen

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Step Up 2 the Streets (2008 )

When rebellious street dancer Andie lands at the elite Maryland School of the Arts, she finds herself fighting to fit in while also trying to hold onto her old life. When she joins forces with the school's hottest dancer Chase to form a crew of classmate outcasts to compete in Baltimore's underground dance battle The Streets, she ultimately finds a way to live her dream while building a bridge between... See Full Description

Genres: Drama, Musical/Performing Arts, Sequel and Teen

Release Date: February 14th, 2008 (wide)

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for language, some suggestive material, and brief violence.

Distributors: Touchstone Pictures

Cast and Credits

Starring: Robert Hoffman, Briana Evigan, Will Kemp, Jennifer Rouse, Cassie
Directed by: Jon Chu
Produced by: Bob Hayward, Anne Fletcher, Patrick Wachsberger

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The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008 )

From the beloved best-selling series of books comes "The Spiderwick Chronicles," a fantasy adventure for the child in all of us. Peculiar things start to happen the moment the Grace family (Jared, his twin brother Simon, sister Mallory and their mom) leave New York and move into the secluded old house owned by their great, great uncle Arthur Spiderwick. Unable to explain the strange disappearances...

Genres: Kids/Family, Science Fiction/Fantasy and Adaptation

Release Date: February 14th, 2008 (wide)

MPAA Rating: PG for scary creature action and violence, peril and some thematic elements.

Distributors: Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies

Cast and Credits

Starring: Michael Kahn, Freddie Highmore, Sarah Bolger, David Strathairn, Mary-Louise Parker
Directed by: Mark Waters (II)
Produced by: Julia Pistor, Holly Black (II), Tony DiTerlizzi

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Jumper (2008 )

A genetic anomaly allows a young man to teleport himself anywhere. He discovers this gift has existed for centuries and finds himself in a war that has been raging for thousands of years between "Jumpers" and those who have sworn to kill them.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Adaptation and Teen

Release Date: February 14th, 2008 (wide)

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sequences of intense action violence, some language and brief sexuality.

Distributors: 20th Century Fox Distribution

Cast and Credits

Starring: Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie Bell, Diane Lane, Katie Boland
Directed by: Doug Liman
Produced by: Vince Gerardis, Ralph Vicinanza, Marc S. Fischer

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Definitely, Maybe (2008 )

A thirtysomething Manhattan dad is in the midst of a divorce when his 10-year-old daughter, Maya, starts to question him about his life before marriage. Maya wants to know absolutely everything about how her parents met and fell in love: Will's story begins in 1992, as a young, starry-eyed aspiring politician who moves to New York from Wisconsin in order to work on the presidential campaign. For Maya,...

Genres: Comedy

Running Time: 1 hr. 45 min.

Release Date: February 14th, 2008 (wide)

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sexual content, including some frank dialogue, language and smoking.

Distributors: Universal Pictures

Cast and Credits

Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Derek Luke, Isla Fisher, Elizabeth Banks, Rachel Weisz
Directed by: Adam Brooks
Produced by: Liza Chasin, Bobby Cohen, Kerry Orent