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Sofia Coppola gave us The Virgin Suicides and Lost in Translation.  This Friday she brings her latest film, re-teaming with Kirsten Dunst, in Marie Antoinette.  Over the week we’ll be taking a look at Coppola’s first two films as well as a gander at a few of Miss Dunst’s as well.  And of course we’ll have our reviews for her new flick on Friday.

But that’s not the only film opening this week.  The list includes Flags of Our Fathers, the first of two films to be released from director Clint Eastwood examining the Battle of Iwo-Jima, as well as obsessed dueling magicians Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman in The Prestige, a new 3-D version of Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, Terry Gilliam falling further into the abyss with a film that makes his last (The Brothers Grimm) appear to be a classic, another horsey movie with a young girl learning about life, and the star-studded cast of the Augusten Burroughs biopic Running With Scissors. 

All that and more; take a peek inside for the full list.

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Sofia Coppola brings Marie Antoinette to the screen, in the guise of Kirsten Dunst, for her third film.  All this week we’ll take a look some of the previous films of Coppola and Dunst as we begin Marie Antoinette Week here at RazorFine.

But that’s not all that’s scheduled to hit theaters this week.  Want to know more?  Just click on the title for film info including a full cast list.  Want a closer look?  Just click on the poster to watch the trailer.

Opening Friday:

Marie Antoinette

For her third film Sophia Coppola decided to adapt Lady Antonia Fraser’s The Journey which takes a sympathetic look at the figure of Marie Antoinette.  For her star Coppola called on Kirsten Dunst (the two worked on Coppola’s first film The Virgin Suicides) as well as Judy Davis, Jason Schwartzman, and Rip Torn.  The film received a mixed reaction at the Cannes Film Festival (as any pro-Antoinette film would) but also earned one award and a nomination for the Golden Palm.  The rock trailer, the intriguing cast, and the lush photography make this look like a film worthy of viewing and discussion.  How worthy?  Well check back Friday for our reviews!

Flags of Our Fathers

In the first of two films dealing with the Battle of Iwo Jima (Eastwood also directed Letters from Iwo Jima, presented from the Japanese point of view) Clint Eastwood gives us Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, and Adam Beach as the surviving members of the most famous photograph from WWII.  The film follows the stories of all six men, their families, the raising of the flag at Iwo Jima, how it changed the lives of the three men who made it home, and how the U.S. Government used the event to help jumpstart the war effort.  The script was penned by Oscar winner Paul Haggis (Crash).  Make sure you check back Friday for our review.

The Prestige

Batman vs. Wolverine.  Christain Bale and Hugh Jackman play competing Victorian Age magicians obsessed with outdoing each other and being proclaimed the best magician in London.  Christopher Nolan (Memento, Batman Begins) directs this journey of pride and obsession that will make everyone quickly forget that other regrettable magic film from ealier this fall.  It also stars Scarlett Johansson, Michael Caine, Piper Perabo, Rebecca Hall and David Bowie (yes, THAT David Bowie) as Nikola Tesla.  Check back Friday for our full review.

Flicka

Are you Flickin’ kidding me?  Another horsey movie?  Based on the novel My Friend Flicka by Mary O’Hara (made into a film in 1943 with Roddy McDowall) follows the story of a young teenager girl (Alison Lohman) claiming a wild horse as her own to prove to her father she could one day run the ranch.  This version also stars country music star Tim McGraw and Maria Bello as the parents (how freakin’ lucky is McGraw, he gets to pretend to be Bello’s husband on-screen and go home to Faith Hill at night)!  With Bello’s involvement you’d expect the film to be more than what it seems.

The Nightmare Before Christmas 3-D

Tim Burton’s tale of Jack Skellington (Chris Sarandon) leaving Halloween Town for Christmas Town with a well-intentioned, but woefully inept, plan to play Santa Claus (Edward Ivory) gets a remake in 3-D for Halloween (and you only had to wait 13 years).  The remastered digital 3-D prints include Lucas-like “improvements” included a revamped soundtrack.  For those of you who don’t remember the voice actors include Catherine O’Hara, Paul Reubens, Greg Proops, William Hickey, and the music and singing (he does the singing voice of Jack) of Danny Elfman.  I guess this animated 3-D flick craze is here to stay (Monster House). 

Opening Friday, in Limited Release:

Running with Scissors

In a film based off of Augusten Burroughs’ memoir, Augusten (Joseph Cross) dealing with an alocholic father (Alec Baldwin) and unstable mother (Annette Bening) as he spends his young years with his mother’s therapist (Brian Cox) and his extended family.  The first rate cast also includes Evan Rachel Wood, Gwyneth Paltrow, Gabrielle Union, and Joseph Fiennes.  Burroughs’ family wasted no time in suing Augusten so you can bet there’s some juicy tidbits to be enjoyed.  For you Nip/Tuck fans – the film is directed by the series head staff writer and executive producer Ryan Murphy.  The film opens Friday in limited release.

Sleepling Dogs Lie

Writtnen and directed by Bob Goldthait (yeah, THAT Bob Goldthwait) this dark comedy asks the question “Is honesty always the best policy?”  After Amy (Melinda Page Hamilton) shares a sexual indiscretion from her past with her current fiance (Bryce Johnson) she struggles with the consequences.  Both the film earned a Grand Jury Prize nomination at Sundance.  I have to say I’m more than a little curious at just what craziness Goldthwait’s brain unleashes here.  The film also stars Geoffrey Pierson, Jack Plotnick, Brain Posehn, Morgan Murphy, Steve Agee, and Bonita Friedericy.  It upens exclusively Los Angeles and New York on Friday.

Tideland

Terry Gilliam doesn’t play it safe, he reaches for the moon with his own brand of madness.  Whe he succeeds he gives us Time Bandits, The Fisher King, and Twelve Monkeys.  We he fails however we get films like Tideland.  The movie follows the odd little Jeliza-Rose (Jodelle Ferland) who finds herself in an abandoned country farmhouse with her inattentive druggie father (Jeff Bridges) after her mother (Jennifer Tilly) dies of a heroin overdose.  She lives in a bizarre fantasy world which includes the heads of dolls and the retarded neighbor.  Just how bad is Tideland?  Check back Friday for my review to find out.

So what’s out there this week?  Well today we’ll take a look at the films scheduled to be released which include a new cop drama from Martin Scorsese, another film with Jessica Simpson (why cruel world, why?!), a Texas Chainsaw Massacre prequel (why cruel world, why?!!), a documentary on the 2004 U.S. Presidential election, and a new film with Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II.

C’mon in and let us get you ready for the week!

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Here’s what’s scheduled to hit theaters this week.  Want to know more?  Just click on the title for film info including a full cast list.  Want a closer look?  Just click on the poster to watch the trailer.

Opening Friday:

The Departed

Martin Scorsese takes a page from Michael Mann’s Heat here focusing on a cop and a crook.  The twist is the cop (Matt Damon) is crooked and the crook (Leonardo DiCaprio) is an undercover cop trying to nail an important member of the Irish mafia (Jack Nicholson) in Boston.  It’s Scorsese’s best in recent memory (Gangs of New York, The Aviator); could this finally be his year come Oscar time?  The film also stars Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Vera Farmiga, and Alec Baldwin in a performance that if it isn’t nominated come award season, they should stop giving out awards.  Check back Friday for our review.

Employee of the Month

Jessica Simpson (without her “Daisy Dukes”) stars as the new employee at a superstore who causes a competition between two store slackers (Dane Cook, Dax Shepard) to win employee of the month in order to earn a date, because beautiful dumb girls really care who’s employee at the month at a dead-end warehouse job.  It took three people (Dan Calame, Chris Conroy, and Greg Coolridge – who gave us 2002’s insanely bad idea comedy Sorority Boys) to write the script!?  The film also stars Andy Dick and Sean Whalen.  It wheels itself into the express check out lane of theaters this Friday and we’ll have the review.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

Speaking of insanely bad ideas…  After a car accident, two pairs of young lovers (Jordana Brewster, Taylor Handley, Diora Baird, Matthew Bomer) find themselves in a house of horrors which contains the man who will become Leatherface (Andrew Bryniarski).  The script was penned by Sheldon Turner who gave us the Adam Sandler version of The Longest Yard, and directed by Jonathan Liebsman (Darkness Falls).  The supporting cast includes R. Lee Emery, Terrence Evans, Lew Temple, Emily Kaye, Cyia Batten, and Lee Tergesen.  At least it doesn’t star Jessica Biel.  It scares its way into theaters on Friday.

Opening Friday, in Limited Release:

…So Goes the Nation

Documentary filmmakers Adam Del Deo and James D. Stern (the pair gave us 2004’s The Year of Yao) take a look at the 2004 Presidential election and the factors that won George W. Bush a second term.  It’s received praise for its balanced look (so you know it wasn’t produced by FOX News), and allows insiders from both political parties to give perspectives and opinions on all that occurred, with an emphasis on the swing state of Ohio.  Will a balanced documentary be acceptable for such a polarized country?  It will openly exclusively in New York this Friday.  IFC Films will release it into more markets over the next few weeks.

The Queen

Helen Mirren stars as Queen Elizabeth II (for which she won Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival).  The film looks at Elizabeth II shortly after the death of Princess Diana and her much publicized public disagreement with Prime Minister Tony Blair (Martin Sheen).  Directed by RazorFine fav Stephen Frears (Mrs. Henderson Presents, High Fidelity, the film also stars James Cromwell, Alex Jennings, Robin Soans, and Sylvia Syms.  The script was penned by Peter Morgan (The Last King of Scotland), who also took home an award at the Venice Film Festival.  It opens in limited release in select cities on Friday.

So what’s out there this week?  Well today we’ll take a look at the films scheduled to be released which include The Last King of Scotland (on Wednesday), Billy Bob Thorton and Jon Heder going mano e mano in School for Scoundrels, Ashton Kutcher as a dimwitted cartoon (and he stars in an animated film out today too!).

All that and more; c’mon in and let us get you ready for the week! 

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Here’s what’s scheduled to hit theaters this week.  Want to know more?  Just click on the title for film info including a full cast list.  Want a closer look?  Just click on the poster to watch the trailer.

Opening Wednesday, in Limited Release:

The Last King of Scotland

James McAvoy plays a Scottish doctor who becomes the personal physician of the vicious and brutal President of Uganda (Forest Whitacker); he discovers he can no longer stand the dictator’s tyrannical rule and attempts to flee the country.  Oscar buzz is swarming all over this one which is based on the novel by Giles Foden describing the real life dictatorship of Idi Amin who ruled Uganda with an iron fist in the 1970’s.  Kevin MacDonald (Touching the Void, and the 2000 Oscar winning documentary One Day in September) directs, and Gilian Anderson and Kerry Washington also star.  The film opens Wednesday in limited release in select cities.

Opening Friday:

School for Scoundrels

A lovelorn loser (Jon Heder) enrolls in a secret confidence building class to improve his self-esteem and win the girl of his dreams (Jacinda Barrett), only to see his self-absorbed instructor (Billy Bob Thorton) attempt to beat him to the girl.  Zany comedy abounds in this one in a somewhat sweeter version of the humor Thorton used so well in Bad Santa.  Todd Philips (Old School, Road Trip, Starsky & Hutch) directs.  The supporting cast includes Sarah Silverman, Ben Stiller, Michael Clarke Duncan, Todd Louiso, Horatio Sanz, and David Cross.  The film opens on Friday and we’ll have the review.

Open Season

You know what we needed?  Another mediocre animated film about critters in the woods.  Yeah…  just exactly what we need.  This one follows the story of a bear (Martin Lawrence) raised in captivity by a forest ranger (Debra Messing) who must adapt to life in the forest as Open Season for hunting begins.  The film also includes the voice talents of Ashton Kutcher as his nit-wit friend (what else?), Billy Connolly, Jon Favreau, Patrick Warburton, Nika Futterman, Jane Krakowski, and Gary Sinese as the obessed hunter Shaw.  Somebody please explain Ashton Kutcher’s career to me, please!  The film opens on Friday, so check back for our review.

The Guardian

Speaking of films we don’t want to see starring Ashton Kutcher…  Kutcher stars as Maverick cocky Jake Fisher, the “best of the best,” who trains with famous rescue swimmer Ben Randall (Kevin Costner) to work in Alaska saving lives and learning about life.  Anybody else think this sounds like Lifetime Television for guys?  The supporting cast includes Clancy Brown, Shelby Fenner, John Heard, Leigh Hennessy, Dule Hill, Sela Ward, Bonnie Bramlett, Matt Laub, Neal McDonough, Melissa Sagemiller, and (the awesomely named) Danny Cosmo Higginbottom.  The Guardian starts drowning theater goers this Friday.

Currently in Limited Release, Opening Wide on Friday:

The U.S. vs. John Lennon

If you’re not a Beatles fan just scroll down to the next film.  John Lennon was the man.  More than just the front man for the biggest rock band in England, or the world, Lennon was an idealist and visionary.  The new documentary examines the life of Lennon and his struggles against the war in Vietnam.  The documentary is the latest from the writer/director team of David Leaf and John Scheinfeld (The Unknown Marx Brothers, Dean Martin: That’s Amore, Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of “Smile”).  After playing two weeks in select cites, the film will be release wide on Friday.  (Read our review here).

Haven

A businessman (Bill Paxton) flees the United States for the Cayman Islands with his daughter (Agnes Bruckner) to avoid prosecution.  After arriving their fates become intertwined with a local (Orlando Bloom) planning a crime that will shock the nation.  Written and directed by Frank E. Flowers (Swallow) the film also stars Zoe Saldana, Victor Rasuk, Lee Ingleby, Sarah Carter, Rachel Miner, and Robert Wisdom.  The film has languished in the festival circuit for two years (it premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2004).  It’s been playing in select cities for a few weeks and opens wide on Friday.  Check back for our review.

The Science of Sleep (Science des reves, La)

As the lights came up I sat in the theater trying to put my experience of watching this film into words.  What I came up was simply this – bizarrely fascinating.  The film centers around a man (Gael Garcia Bernal) who lacks the ability to separate his dream world from reality, with dizzying results, and his love for his new neighbor (Charlotte Gainsboroug).  Nowhere near conventional, the film reminds me of Terry Gilliam’s early work (before he went crazy and started making “films” like Tideland and The Brothers Grimm).  It was released in select cities last week (read our review) and Friday begins its wider release.

Opening Friday, in Limited Release:

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

Writer/director Dito Montiel’s autobiopic stars Robert Downey Jr. ad Montiel returning home to Astoria, NY to come to terms with his past.  Seriously, how cool is it for Robert Downey Jr. to play you in your life story?  Shia LaBeouf plays Mentiel’s young self, and the film has a nice supporting cast that includes (RazorFine fav) Rosario Dawson, Chazz Palminteri, Dianee Weist, Channing Tatum, Melonie Diaz, and Eric Roberts.  Montiel’s personal story did well at Sundace pulling in both the Director’s Award and the Special Jury Prize for ensemble performance.  The film opens Friday exclusively in New York and Los Angeles.

Jesus Camp

Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (the pair gave us 2005’s The Boys of Baraka) present this documentary look at children who attend the “Kids on Fire” summer camp for born again children.  The film focuses on three children from 9 to 12 years-old, and examines the broader impact of the Evangelical movement still strong in the Midwest.  Oddly enough, the film is being marketed to Christians despite it’s slightly slanted view in the other direction (Michael Moore looooves it).  It’s been a big hit on the festival circuit, including here in Kansas City.  Jesus Camp opens in select cities on Friday.

Facing the Giants

Another football coach movie?  Grant Taylor (Alex Kindrick, who also directs and co-wrote the script with his brother Stephen) isn’t the great football coach or motivator; his teams have lost consistantly for years, he’s about to be fired, and his wife is infertile.  Deciding he has nothing left to lose he turns to God to help inspire his players.  Not to misquote Star Trek, but what does God need with football?  The film was put together by an all volunteer Baptist cast in Albany, GA.  The inspirational pro-Christian message is sure to play better in red states.  It opens Friday in select cities.

So what’s out there this week?  Well today we’ll take a look at the films scheduled to be released on Friday.  They include James Franco, Jean Reno and David Ellison in Flyboys, Sean Penn takes a turn as a southern govener in All the King’s Men, Jet Li in perhaps his last ever action flick, Johnny Knoxville and his idiot friends prove they really are jackasses, and Feast, the final Project Greenlight film finally finds itself in a theater..

We’ll also give you the scoop on films out this week in limited release including the reality bending The Science of Sleep, a documentary on the American hardcore punk movement of the 1980’s, and an animated action flick starring the newest James Bond.

All that and more; c’mon in and let us get you ready for the week! 

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Here’s what’s scheduled to hit theaters this week.  Want to know more?  Just click on the title for film info including a full cast list.  Want a closer look?  Just click on the poster to watch the trailer.

Opening Friday:

Flyboys

Before America entered WWI a small group of American pilots volunteered to serve in the French military air force known as Lafayette Escadrille.  The film focuses on a small group of Americans that journeyed overseas for different reasons and became fighter pilots in the war against Germany.  The film stars James Franco, Philip Winchester, Abdul Salis, Tyler Labine, David Ellison, and Jean Reno.  Aside from a few problems, like having all the subtlety of a Michael Bay film and the complete absence of dust, dirt, or wear on clothing, or anything, the film is worth seeing for the acting and some good dogfight sequences.  Check back Friday for the review.

All the King’s Men

A stellar cast (Sean Penn, Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Patricia Clarkson, James Gandolfini) under the direction of Steven Zaillian (A Civil Action and the under-appreciated Searching for Bobby Fischer) are on hand for this adaption of Robert Penn Warren’s novel about the populist Southern Governer Willie Stark which was loosely based on the political career of Gov. Huey Long of Louisiana.  Sony’s pushing this one hard for award season, and the talented cast make it a must see, but has anyone else been left cold by the trailer?  That and the fact the film was delayed due to re-editing and you have to wonder…  Check back Friday for the review.

Fearless (Juo Yuan Jia)

Jet Li stars and Martial Arts master Huo Yuanjia, the founder of the Jin Wu Sports Federation and the most famous Chinese fighter at the turn of the 20th Century.  Rumors have run rampant that this would be Li’s last action film and that alone should flock his fans to the theaters.  The film also stars Nathan Jones, Shido Nakamura, Brandon Rhea, Nan Sun, and Michelle Yeoh (who’s role was severly shredded in the editing room).  Directed by Ronny Yu (Freddy vs. Jason, Bride of Chucky,

, Wu Lin sheng dou shi) who left that project with Samuel L. Jackson, and those M*@F%#ing airborne snakes, for this one.

Feast

The third, and final, Project Greenlight movie.  The film that chose the oddest cat to direct, and an average horror script to produce, and all manner of lunacy ensued.  The director tried to push his friends into the starring roles, the casting director went behind the director and producers to get her friend a role, and the producers went crazy with worry.  Remember?  Well now you get to see it!  The film will open midnight Thursday and only play through Saturday, hoping to market the DVD release in October.  Well you know I’ll be there!  The cast includes Krista Allen, Balthazar Getty, Navi Rawat, Jenny Wade, and Henry Rollins.  Check back for our review.

Jackass: Number Two

And in a film destined to make Feast look Oscar worthy, Johnny Knoxville and gang return to make a sequel to 2002’s Jackass: the Movie which was based of the bottom of the barrel exploitative short-lived MTV “reality” show which was little more than idiot stunts mixed with America’s Funniest Home Videos.  Why, oh why, do we need a sequel?  Four words – The Dukes of Hazard.  Knoxville’s career’s in the toilet and the rest of the gang has blissfully faded into oblivion, so why not dig deep in the trash for one last attempt at mediocre glory.  The film opens Friday, but you’ll have to do without a review for this one folks.

Opening Friday, in Limited Release:

The Science of Sleep (Science des reves, La)

As the lights came up I sat in the theater trying to put my experience of watching this film into words.  What I came up was simply this – bizarrely fascinating.  The film centers around a man (Gael Garcia Bernal) who lacks the ability to separate his dream world from reality, with dizzying results, and his love for his new neighbor (Charlotte Gainsboroug).  Nowhere near conventional, the film reminds me of Terry Gilliam’s early work (before he went crazy and started making “films” like Tideland and The Brothers Grimm).  It will be released in select cities on Friday so check to see if it’s showing at your local art house, and come back on Friday for our review.

American Hardcore

Director Paul Rachman and American punk historian Steven Blush come together in this new documentary, based of Blush’s book American Hardcore: A Tribal History, that focuses on America’s hardcore punk movement of he early to mid-eighties.  The documentary is packed with never before seen footage and interviews from those involved in the scene, including Henry Rollins, and music from the likes of Green Gang, SS Decontrol, Circle Jerks, Jerry’s Kids and more.  It’s been the year for the documentary so will see if American Hardcore can measure up.  The film opens in limited release in select cities on Friday.

Renaissance

The man who would be James Bond (Daniel Craig) stars as cop in a futuristic Paris (think Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta with pastries) where a woman (Cahterine McCormack) searches for her kidnapped sister (Romola Garai).  The film is animated in black and white and the style, not to mention the tone, of the story will surely bring about Sin City references and comparisons.  If it’s half that good I’ll be satisfied; it will face tougher competition at the box office, being released this late in the year.  The film also stars the voices of Jonathan Pryce, and Ian Holm.  An ambitious undertaking for second time director Christain Volck (Maaz).  It opens in select cities on Friday.

So what’s out there this week?  Well today we’ll take a look at the films scheduled to be released on Friday.  They include Ben Affleck getting to take a turn as Superman (kind of), Tony Jaa kickin some ass in Australia, a new film from the director of Cutthroat Island and Mindhunters (yikes!), and yet another summer film starring Maggie Gyllenhaal.  Read on…

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Here’s what’s scheduled to hit theaters this week.  Want to know more?  Just click on the title for film info including a full cast list.  Want a closer look?  Just click on the poster to watch the trailer.

Opening Friday:

Hollywoodland

The life and death of George Reeves, TV’s Superman, are explored.  Adrian Brody plays a private detective investigating the mysterious “suicide” of George Reeves (Ben Affleck) and uncovers the star’s secrets including hidden affair with the wife (Diane Lane) of a studio big shot (Bop Hoskins).  Robin Tunney, Joe Spano, Brad William Henke, and Molly Parker also star.  The film marks the theatrical directing debut of longtime HBO director Allen Coulter (Rome, The Sopranos, Sex in the City).  Nice to see Affleck in a good role again; Brandon Routh may have gotten to put on the new rubber super-suit, but this film could really fly (hopefully not under the radar).

The Protector (Tom yum goong)

After his elephant is stolen by an Asian gang, a young Muy Thai fighter (Tony Jaa) is called on to travel to Sydney, Australia and retrieve the elephant, avenge the wrongs done, and reclaim the honor and heritage of his people.  Prachya Pinkaew directs this sequel, of sorts, to his 2003 hit Ong-bak.  Petchtai Wongkamlao, Bongkoj Kongmalai, Xing Jing, Nathan Jones, Johnyy Nguyen, Damien De Montemas, Sotorn Rungruaeng, Amonphan Gongtragan, and Jackie Chan also star.  Ong-bak received mixed praise and indifference from martial arts fans.  The real question here is does Jaa finally take on the role of “the next Bruce Lee,” or not?

The Covenant

The O.C. meets The Skulls meets Underworld (a trifecta of ultimate pain and suffering – for the audience at least) in this new film about four magically empowered young men descended from a centuries old supernatural legacy.  Directed by Renny Harlin (Mindhunters, Cutthroat Island, The Long Kiss Goodnight… sorry, I have to stop for a second and vomit.  Whew, okay, now why is this guy still allowed behind a camera?); the film is filled with no-name good looking twenty-somethings like Steven Stait, Sebastain Stan, Toby Hemingway, Chace Crawford, Talor Kitsch, Jessica Lucas, Sarah Smyth, and Laura Ramsey.

Opening Friday in Limited Release:

Sherrybaby

After three years in prison for robbery, a 19 year-old heroin addict (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is released and goes in search of remaking her life and reclaiming her daughter (Ryan Simpkins).  Brad William Henke, Kate Burton, Bridgit Barkan, Danny Trejo, and Sam Bottoms also star.  I guess no one’s afraid of over-exposure.  I like Maggie Gyllenhaal as much as any warm blooded heterosexual male, but releasing three movies where she plays a prominent role in less than a month and a half (World Trade Center, Trust the Man, and now this) is a little too much for me.  It opens exclusively in New York and Los Angeles on Friday.