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Lights, Camera, Action: Coming Soon-- November 2004

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Birth

 

Birth
Release Date: November 5
Rating: R- for sexuality
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Cameron Bright, Danny Huston, Lauren Bacall, Arliss Howard
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Nicole Kidman stars in this metaphysical love story that explores the space between what we know and what we feel. Kidman is Anna, a delicate young widow who is on the verge of a new life when a solemn little boy appears, claiming to be the reincarnation of her dead husband. Birth is part romance, part mystery, and part family drama - woven into a whole about love, mortality and the unknown.


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The Incredibles

 

The Incredibles
Release Date: November 5
Rating: PG- for action violence
Genre: Animation, Kids/Family, Action/Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction/Fantasy
Cast: Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L Jackson, Jason Lee, Elizabeth Peña
Director: Brad Bird
Pixar, the studio that brought animation to a new level with Toy Story, created this animated action-adventure comedy about a dysfunctional family of undercover super heroes, which, although struggling to live a quiet suburban life, is forced into action to save the world.

The Polar Express

 

The Polar Express
Release Date: November 10
Rating: Not Yet Rated
Genre: Kids/Family, Animation
Cast: Tom Hanks, Chris Coppola, Eddie Deezen, Michael Jeter, Nona Gaye
Director: Robert Zemeckis

Believing in Santa Claus isn't easy when all of your friends and family insist he's just make-believe. A boy's faith is rewarded one Christmas Eve when he's awakened by a steam train that pulls up in front of his house and takes him and other children to the North Pole to meet Santa. Based on the award-winning book by Chris Van Allsburg.

Seed of Chucky

 

Seed of Chucky
Release Date: November 10
Rating: R- for strong horror violence/gore, sexual content and language
Genre: Comedy, Suspense/Horror
Cast: Jennifer Tilly, Redman, Hannah Spearritt, Brad Dourif, Billy Boyd
Director: Don Mancini

Following the events of Bride of Chucky, killer toys Chucky and Tiffany are now faced with the challenge of raising their child-- becoming a family of demonic dolls.

After the Sunset

 

After the Sunset
Release Date: November 12
Rating: PG-13- for sexuality, violence, and language
Genre: Romance, Crime
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Salma Hayek, Woody Harrelson, Don Cheadle, Naomie Harris
Director: Brett Ratner

After a successful last score, a master thief (Brosnan) retires to an island paradise. His lifelong nemesis, a crafty FBI agent, washes ashore to ensure he's making good on his promise. The pair soon enters into a new game of cat-and-mouse.

Bridget Jones

 

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Release Date: November 19
Rating: R- for language and some sexual content
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Jacinda Barrett, Jim Broadbent
Director: Beeban Kidron

In this follow-up to the worldwide hit, we find Bridget (Renée Zellweger) where we left her: blissful and besotted in the arms of gorgeous lawyer Mark Darcy (Colin Firth). Mark is accomplished, supportive and tolerant of (nearly) all of Bridget's tiny jealousies; why wouldn't every woman in London, including Mark's new long-legged, drop-dead-gorgeous, I-always-say-the-right-thing-at-all-times intern, want to lure him away from the plumpish, opinionated, sometimes inappropriate Bridget? With the entry of the leggy threat, Bridget's pink clouds begin to turn grey as her attacks of self-doubt sorely test her relationship with Darcy. And just when it seems that the waters couldn't get any more choppy, Bridget's former boss, womanizing heartthrob Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) sails into view.

 

National Treasure

 

National Treasure
Release Date: November 19
Rating: PG- for action violence and some scary images
Genre: Action/Adventure
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Harvey Keitel, Justin Bartha, Sean Bean
Director: Jon Turteltaub

All his life, Benjamin Franklin Gates (Nicolas Cage) has been searching for a treasure no one believed existed: amassed through the ages, moved across continents, to become the greatest treasure the world has ever known. Hidden by our Founding Fathers, they left clues to the Treasure’s location right before our eyes... clues buried within the symbols on the dollar bill. In a race against time, Gates must elude the FBI, stay one step ahead of his ruthless adversary (Sean Bean), decipher the remaining clues, and unlock the 2000 year-old mystery behind our greatest national treasure.

SpongeBob SquarePants

 

The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
Release Date: November 19
Rating: PG- for some mild crude humor
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Kids/Family
Cast: Tom Kenny, Rodger Bumpass, Bill Fagerbakke, Carolyn Lawrence, Clancy Brown
Director: Sherm Cohen, C.H. Greenblatt

SpongeBob SquarePants is an optimistic, free-spirited sponge that was born in a rectangular shape, much like a kitchen sponge. Living at the bottom of the sea in a pineapple in the community of Bikini Bottom, SpongeBob works as a fry cook at the Krusty Krab diner, where his friends include a Squidward the squid and Patrick the starfish. Based on the popular television series.

Alexander

 

Alexander
Release Date: November 24
Rating: R- for violence and some sexuality/nudity
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Cast: Colin Farrell, Rosario Dawson, Anthony Hopkins, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer
Director: Oliver Stone
Award-winning director Oliver Stone tackles the legendary Alexander The Great-- a relentless conqueror who by the age of 32 had amassed the greatest empire the world had ever seen. Past and present collide to form the puzzle of Alexander, a tapestry of triumphs and tragedies in which childhood memories and Alexander's rise to power unfold side by side with the later day expansion of his empire, its gradual decline and ultimate downfall. From his youth, fueled by dreams of glory and adventure, to his lonely and mysterious death as a ruler of a vast state, from the tumultuous relationship with his parents - a powerful king and a queen determined to put her child on the throne at any cost, including murder - to the rousing "band of brothers" bond with his closest companions and vast army, as they fought from the sun-scorched battlefields of the Persian Empire across the snow-peaked mountains of India, the film chronicles Alexander's journey to become a living legend.

 

Beauty Shop

 

Beauty Shop
Release Date: November 24
Rating: Not Yet Rated
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Queen Latifah, Sherri Shepherd, Serena Williams
Director: Bille Woodruff

You thought you’d heard it all in the barbershop, but you haven’t heard anything yet – the women get their own chance to shampoo, shine, and speak their minds in Beauty Shop. From the filmmakers that brought you Barbershop and Barbershop 2. Queen Latifah stars as Gina, a hairstylist who opens a shop of her own.

Christmas with the Kranks

 

Christmas with the Kranks
Release Date: November 24
Rating: PG- for brief language and suggestive content
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Julie Gonzalo, Dan Aykroyd, Jake Busey
Director: Joe Roth

Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded malls, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That's just what Luther (Allen) and Nora Krank (Curtis) have in mind when they decide that, just this once, they'll skip the holiday altogether, despite the fact that they're usually the most fanatical about it. They might as well, since it won't be the same without their daughter, who's away in the tropics. They get the idea to join their daughter in sunny paradise as a surprise, and thus, theirs will be the only house on Hemlock Street without a rooftop Frosty; they won't be hosting their annual Christmas Eve bash; they aren't even going to have a tree. But when their daughter surprises them by cutting her trip short and returning home for Christmas, there's a mad scramble to prepare themselves to have the traditional Christmas fanfare on extremely short notice.

 

The Flight of the Phoenix

 

The Flight of the Phoenix
Release Date: November 24
Rating: Not Yet Rated
Genre: Action/Adventure
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Giovanni Ribisi, Miranda Otto, Hugh Laurie, Jared Padalecki
Director: John Moore

When a C-119 cargo plane full of oil workers crashes in Mongolia's Gobi Desert during a sandstorm, the survivors attempt to build a new plane from the parts they find in the wreckage to escape. A reimagining of the 1965 classic adventure film starring James Stewart.

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