Titles Under Consideration
Baghead
- Directors: Mark & Jay Duplass (The Puffy Chair)
- Cast: Ross Partridge, Steve Zissis, Greta Gerwig, Elise Muller
A group of actors, in an attempt to salvage their fledging careers, decide to hole up in a friend's cabin in the woods for the weekend to write a script staring themselves. What they come up with is far beyond any of their expectations. 84 min. Rated R for language, some sexual content and nudity.
The Children of Huang Shi
- Director: Roger Spottiswoode (And the Band Played On)
- Cast: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Michelle Yeoh, Chow Yun-Fat, Radha Mitchell, Guang Wen Li
In war-torn 1930's China, a young English journalist, an American nurse and the leader of a Chinese partisan group who meet in desperate and unexpected circumstances. Together they rescue 60-orphaned, children leading them on an extraordinary journey, across hundreds of miles of treacherous terrain, through snow-covered mountains and an unforgiving desert. Along the way they discover the true meaning of love, responsibility and courage. 114 min. Rated R for some disturbing and violent content. In English, Japanese & Mandarin with English subtitles.
Choke
- Director: Clark Gregg
- Cast: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Houston, Kelly MacDonald, Brad Henke, Joel Gray
Based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club), Choke tells the story of Victor Mancini (Sam Rockwell), a medical-school dropout, and an antihero for our deranged times who cruises sexual addiction recovery workshops for action and spends his days working at a colonial theme park. Needing to pay elder care for his mother (Anjelica Houston), Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be "saved" by fellow patrons who, feeling responsible for Victor's life, send checks to support him. 92 min. Rated R for strong sexual content, nudity and language.
Man on Wire
- Director: James Marsh (The King)
On August 7th 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between New York's twin towers, then the world's tallest buildings. After nearly an hour dancing on the wire, he was arrested, taken for psychological evaluation, and brought to jail before he was finally released. Following six and a half years of dreaming of the towers, Petit spent eight months in New York City planning the execution of the coup. 102 min. Rated PG-13 for some sexuality and nudity, and drug references. In English and French with English subtitles.
Towelhead
- Director: Alan Ball (writer of American Beauty; creator of "Six Feet Under")
- Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Toni Collette, Maria Bello, Summer Bishil, Peter Macdissi
Jasira, a 13-year-old Arab-American girl, navigates the confusing and frightening path of adolescence and her own sexual awakening. When Jasira's mother sends her to Houston to live with her strict Lebanese father, she quickly learns that her new neighbors find her and her father a curiosity. Worse, her budding womanhood makes her traditional and hot-tempered father uncomfortable. Lonely in this new environment, Jasira seeks friendship and acceptance from her neighbors Mr. Vuoso, an Army reservist, and Melina, a meddling but caring expectant mother. 116 min. Rated R for strong disturbing sexual content and abuse involving a young teen, and for language.
When Did You Last See Your Father?
- Director: Anand Tucker (Hilary & Jackie, Shopgirl)
- Cast: Jim Broadbent, Colin Firth, Juliet Stevenson
An unflinching exploration of a father/son relationship, as Blake Morrison deals with his father Arthur's terminal illness and imminent death. Blake's memories of everything funny, embarrassing and upsetting about his childhood and teens are interspersed with tender and heartrending scenes in the present, as he struggles to come to terms with his father, and their history of conflict, and learns to accept that one's parents are not always accountable to their children. 92 min. Rated PG-13 for sexual content, thematic material and brief strong language.