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CAYOM YEAR 1: PART 1 (Post the Films of the Year)

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Rapture

Director: David Fincher

Genre: Drama/Romance

Cast: Aaron Johnson, Elizabeth Gillies, Krysten Ritter, Vanessa Marshall, Bob Saget, Catharine Keener, Leighton Meester, Ving Rhames, Taylor Lautner

Plot:

Martin Stevens (Aaron Johnson) is a somewhat shy, somewhat awkward young man entering his senior year of high school. He’s never had a girlfriend, and he’s never even been kissed, and there’s only one girl he has his eyes on: Aislyn Turner (Elizabeth Gillies), a beautiful but withdrawn girl who lives with her older sister Liza (Krysten Ritter), after the death of her parents in a plane crash when she was only ten. Aislyn’s had a few boyfriends but she’s never gone steady with any of them. One day, when Martin’s looking at her in the cafeteria, one of her exes tells him that she demands way too much from her boyfriends emotionally. This doesn’t deter Martin from dreaming about her, he’s always wanted a girl who he can comfort and be close with. The only real thing stopping him from asking Aislyn out is his shyness, though she does catch his eye once in the cafeteria. She doesn’t smile, though she does shoot him a knowing look. Martin lives a pretty normal life with his parents, Joe (Bob Saget) and Marie (Vanessa Marshall), and we see that Martin’s getting ready to go to Princeton next year to study law, he got a 1510 on the SAT and is going for valedictorian. His rival for valedictorian is Katie Parsons (Leighton Meester), an overachieving cheerleader who’s dating Rick Sterns (Taylor Lautner), the two won prom king and queen the previous year and are pretty much at the top of the school food chain in terms of popularity. After a few quick scenes to introduce the school social scene, we’re treated to the next day at lunch, where Martin is trying to work up the courage to ask Aislyn out. Spurred on by his friends, Martin goes to talk to Aislyn, only for Rick to approach her out of the blue and start flirting with her (this is while Katie is working on a project in the school’s computer lab). Aislyn flat out rejects Rick, telling him he should go back to his real girlfriend. Rick says that he wants a change from her, the good cheerleader thing is boring and he wants to have a nice of fun with the creepy girl. All while this is going on, Martin just sits and watches, not knowing what to think. After Aislyn rejects him again, Rick walks away and Aislyn shoots Martin another look. He starts to turn away, only for her to say “hey” to him, looking at him and gesturing for him to come over. The two strike up a conversation, Martin is pretty awkward at first but he finds a subject he and Aislyn are both interested in (the band Slayer) and the two of them actually seem to hit it off. Martin asks Aislyn out on a date, and she says “we’ll see”, without smiling at him. Martin is left not knowing what to think or even whether or not Aislyn even likes him.

The next scene is of Aislyn at home with her sister, who works two jobs trying to make everything work for them. We see that Aislyn and Liza have a pretty close relationship but that Aislyn is naturally distant, she cares deeply for her sister but isn’t all that interested in talking with her. When Aislyn tells Liza about what happened with Rick that day, Liza encourages her to go out with him. Aislyn brings up the fact that Rick is already dating someone, to which Liza responds “it’s not like they’re married, go for it”. Aislyn responds that she doesn’t even like him and mentions Martin next, Liza tells her that Martin sounds like a creep, Aislyn points out that he likes Slayer, to which Liza responds that it makes him seem even more like a creep. There’s a scene of Rick and Katie talking at Katie’s house as she continues working on her project, Katie has no idea that Rick tried to ask Aislyn out and the scene ends with the two of them making out and presumably about to have sex. There’s a scene of Martin at home after dinner, wondering whether or not to call Aislyn when there’s a knock at his door. He answers it and sees her, she wants him to come out and talk on the porch. The two of them are having another rather mundane conversation when Aislyn suddenly grabs him and kisses him passionately. Martin is shocked by this but soon begins to enjoy it as Aislyn kisses him over and over. After several fairly sensual kisses, Aislyn parts from him and smirks (the first time Martin’s seen her smile), telling him “not bad” before turning and leaving without saying another word, leaving Martin confused but on cloud nine. The next day at school, he immediately approaches her and asks her “so are we… you know?” to which she responds by taking his hand in hers. The day passes quickly. Martin is barely able to concentrate in class, he’s shaking and seemingly in shock at how rapidly he and Aislyn got together. His friends are all congratulating him, one of them says “she turned down the most popular guy in school… for you”. Aislyn sits with Martin at lunch and kisses him deeply again, Rick looks over at them and seems quite pissed at this before Katie comes over to him and kisses him on the cheek. His expression quickly changes, he seems happy to see Katie and he holds her close, walking out of the cafeteria with her hand in hand. Martin asks Aislyn if she’s going to tell Katie about Rick flirting with her the previous day, she says “more trouble than it’s worth”, and kisses Martin again.

There are a couple of scenes of the two of them going out on dates, they’re at a movie together and Aislyn makes some snarky comments (and gets Martin to come out of his shell a bit by joining in). They go to the arcade together and Aislyn is smiling and laughing a lot as she beats Martin at a video game he told her he was great at, the two of them seem to be having a really great time and by the end of their date they’re both smiling and laughing, holding hands and acting a lot like any ordinary couple. It’s clear that Aislyn genuinely likes Martin, and Martin likes her too, though he seems somewhat nervous as they sit down in a swinging couch on his porch. He tells her that one of her exes said something about her being too needy emotionally, he says that he feels bad for bringing it up but he wonders why she’s never kept a boyfriend very long. Aislyn tells Martin that “all my exes got tired of listening to my shit, sometimes I get emotional with all the stuff I’ve got going on and none of them wanted to listen”, to which Martin responds “I’ve never heard you string more than a few sentences together”. She replies “trust me… it’ll happen. My sister gets stressed out from her work, she comes home and bitches about it, it’s miserable in the house for a few days, I have to vent, and sometimes I get pissed. I’m working on it, maybe this time I won’t freak out and dump my boyfriend over it.” Martin stumbles for a bit to find something to say, finally taking Aislyn’s hand and saying that he’ll listen to whatever she has to say no matter what. He tells her he can’t believe he has a girlfriend, let alone one as awesome as she is. He continues to gush, only for her to shut him up by passionately kissing him. Finally the two of them part and she gets up from the couch, telling Martin she’ll see him tomorrow at school and leaving with a smile. Martin goes back into the house, smiling from ear to ear. His dad is wondering what he’s smiling about, and Martin talks about his dates with Aislyn. His dad is glad to see that he’s got a girlfriend but reminds him about using protection and says that he’ll give him a condom to carry around with him if he thinks things are getting really serious. Martin backs off a bit, feeling somewhat awkward and promising that he’ll make sure to use protection if it gets anywhere near that level. Meanwhile, we see Katie lying in bed with Rick, she’s smiling and telling him that he was amazing as usual, though Rick seems somewhat bored. He puts on a smile for Katie, kissing the back of her neck and telling her that she’s the hottest girl ever. He and Katie get dressed, Katie says that she’s got to finish up that project, while Rick says that he’d better leave before Katie’s mom gets home. He leaves and we see Katie’s mom (Catherine Keener) enter the room, by that point Katie’s back to work on her project and her mom doesn’t seem to suspect that anything’s happened.

Meanwhile, we see Aislyn arrive at home, she finds a note from her sister saying that she’ll be working all night. Aislyn shrugs her shoulders and goes upstairs, she’s about to put on a Slayer CD when there’s a knock at the door. She opens it up and there’s Rick, wanting to come in. Aislyn tells him to go away but he keeps trying to get her to let him in. When she tells him to fuck off and tries to slam the door in his face, he blocks it with his foot and tries to force his way into the house. A fight ensues, Rick punches Aislyn in the face, stunning her, and then forcing his way in and pinning her to the ground. Aislyn fiercely tries to fight him off, grabbing various things in the house to try and hit him, but he’s too strong and he eventually starts tearing off her clothes, we hear Aislyn scream and then the scene switches to Aislyn huddled in the shower, completely naked. Rick is outside the bathroom pulling his pants back up, he tells Aislyn that if she doesn’t wash up good he’ll beat her unconscious and do it himself. Aislyn is sobbing violently, screaming “FUCK YOU!” after Rick tells her how “nice of a lay” she was. The next scene is of Aislyn at the breakfast table with an emotionless look on her face. She’s put on makeup to cover up her bruises, and as Liza comes in, Aislyn just looks at her, her gaze following her older sister across the room. Liza tries to ask Aislyn what’s wrong, Aislyn can’t work up the strength to tell Liza about the rape and she says everything’s fine. The conversation eventually degenerates into a shouting match, with Aislyn storming out the door and Liza left wondering what possibly could’ve happened. Liza looks around the house, eventually finding a smashed up vase in the trash can. At school, Aislyn’s demeanor has changed somewhat, she tries not to let on to Martin that anything’s happened, but he can tell that something’s wrong and tries to get her to talk about it. She shoots an absolute death glare at Rick and Katie as they come in, to which Rick snickers at. “What’s your deal?” Katie asks Aislyn, Aislyn responds by grabbing Martin and kissing him. There’s another scene of Martin walking to his car with Aislyn, he’s still trying to get her to say what happened and wonders if it might be her sister. He says “if there’s anything bothering you, you can tell me…”. She softens up and is about to tell him, but simply kisses his cheek and tells him not to worry about it before going to her car and driving off. Martin returns home and talks with his mom about how Aislyn was at school, she just says that sometimes women have things they’re dealing with that guys just don’t understand. She says that the more a woman trusts you, the more she’ll tell you. That night, Martin is up in his room looking worried, he calls Aislyn on his phone but she doesn’t answer. The scene switches to Aislyn at home, listening to music on headphones and unable to hear her phone. She’s staring up at the ceiling with a vacant expression on her face, seemingly contemplating something. She walks to her sister’s room (her sister is out again that night) and opens one of her drawers. There’s another scene of Martin at home, he’s giving up on trying to call Aislyn and is watching something on Adult Swim when his phone rings. It’s Aislyn, extremely distressed, telling him he has to come right away, that she has to tell him something. He says he’ll come over to her house right away. She tells him that he needs to come over to Katie Parsons’ house and gives him the address, says to come right away and then hangs up.

When Martin gets to Katie’s house, he looks in the living room and we see a horrified look on his face, followed by a loud “holy fucking shit!” exclamation. Inside the living room is Katie’s dead body, wrapped in a bloody sheet. Aislyn has shot her in the head. Aislyn tearfully runs over to Martin, stammering an explanation. She tells Martin that Rick raped her last night and that she came over to kill him, knowing he always comes over to Katie’s house at this time of day. When she saw Katie, and Katie saw the gun, Katie started to freak out and Aislyn panicked and shot her. She’s sobbing and saying she doesn’t know what to do. Martin is stunned and shocked, but seeing Aislyn in such an emotional wreck, the only thing he can do is hold her and tell her everything will be all right. Aislyn begs Martin to help her clean up the evidence and dispose of the body. Martin is freaked out at this prospect, wanting Aislyn to turn herself in and plead temporary insanity, but Aislyn is weeping that she doesn’t want to go to jail. Finally, Martin decides to help her, looking up on the internet how to dispose of a body (he puts on some gloves before using the house’s computer) and quickly (and somewhat awkwardly) helping Aislyn to clean up the evidence. They take Katie’s body to Aislyn’s car and put it in the trunk (wrapped tightly in a bedsheet, a plastic tarp, and duct tape so there won’t be any blood in the car), driving out deep into the woods and burying the body in a shallow grave. When it’s over, Martin is freaked out and Aislyn is extremely emotional. She’s shaking as she has flashbacks of the rape, and is just about to scream when Martin holds her tightly. Aislyn returns the embrace and the two of them go back into Aislyn’s car. They start to kiss passionately, and soon the two of them are having sex in the back of Aislyn’s car. When it’s over, Aislyn whispers “I love you…” into Martin’s ear, and Martin, still somewhat stunned at everything that’s happened that evening, says “I love you too…”, not knowing anything else to say. Aislyn returns to her home while Martin goes back to his, sneaking in so his parents won’t know about him being out. We then see a scene of Katie’s mother returning home (she manages a restaurant late nights). She sees the bullet hole in the floor, the shell casing, and the blood, and calls out for Katie. When she gets no response, she calls 911, screaming frantically that something’s happened to her daughter. Meanwhile, Aislyn returns the gun to her sister’s drawer and gets into her bed, breathing heavily.

The next day at school, everyone is talking about what happened to Katie. Though there’s no body, the blood on the floor can be used by the police to test and see if it matches her DNA. Meanwhile, Rick is EXTREMELY distraught. He goes to the locker room and tries to hold back his tears, even though he was tired of having sex with Katie and raped Aislyn, he still had deep feelings for Katie and is wrecked by her death. As he is about to start sobbing, a teacher approaches him and tells him that some police officers want to speak with him. He sits down with Officer Frank Brown (Ving Rhames), who is leading the investigation into Katie’s disappearance. He asks Rick some standard questions, Rick says he wasn’t at Katie’s all night but he’s clearly agitated about something (he thinks the cops might be on to the fact that he raped Aislyn), which leads the cops to believe he’s responsible for Katie’s death. He has no alibi (he was out running in the woods at the time of her death), and though he doesn’t have an apparent motive, he still seems to be the cops’ number one suspect, especially since there was no sign of a break-in at Katie’s home. Meanwhile, Aislyn already seems uneasy by the police presence at the school, and takes Martin into the janitor’s closet so he can try and calm her down. He too is uneasy but tells Aislyn that she has nothing to worry about and that the cops seem to be suspecting Rick, something which Aislyn (unseen by Martin) takes some slight pleasure at. Martin agrees to come home with Aislyn after school, as she doesn’t want to be alone and she doesn’t feel like talking with her sister about what’s happened yet. Meanwhile, the investigation continues at Katie’s house. The cops find the “how to dispose of a body” searches on the computer, and the DNA test on the blood comes back to match Katie’s DNA. The cops are able to determine, even without a body, that Katie was likely shot, and the fact that a bedsheet, plastic tarp, and duct tape are missing from the home indicates that she’s most likely been killed. Katie’s mother breaks down sobbing at the news. The scene switches to Aislyn’s house, where Liza is trying to get Aislyn to talk to her, especially after what happened to Katie. Aislyn says she just wants to talk to Martin and goes upstairs, the two of them are soon having sex in Aislyn’s bed. As they are lying under the covers after the sex, Martin tells Aislyn that she should maybe at least tell Liza that Rick raped her. Aislyn starts to get mad and refuse but Martin says that she should tell her and that it’ll be best to at least talk to someone else about that. We see Aislyn entering the kitchen and Liza looking at her, and then we see the middle of their conversation, Liza is shocked and extremely distressed and Aislyn is crying as she tells Liza about the rape. The two start sobbing and hugging together and Liza wants to go with Aislyn to the police, especially considering what happened to Katie and that Rick is probably the top suspect in that, it might help the cops with their investigation. Aislyn insists that she doesn’t want to go to the cops, that Rick made her wash away all the evidence and that she’s scared Rick might come for her too, Liza assures her that the cops will arrest Rick and that she’ll be safe. Aislyn says that she’ll go to the cops but not right now and that she doesn’t want Liza to do it either. She then goes back to the stairs where Martin is standing, having waited the whole time for Aislyn and Liza to finish. Martin goes over to Liza and tells her that he’s sorry about what happened to Aislyn and that he should’ve protected her, Liza just shakes her head and says “you kidding me? He probably would’ve killed you.”, prompting Martin to sigh and bow his head. He kisses Aislyn goodbye and then leaves, going home and to his room. He thinks about everything that’s happened and whether or not being with Aislyn is worth covering up a murder, thinking back to the sex they had and how much he loves being with her. He then decides that he wants to kick Rick’s ass, that the next time he sees Rick at school he’s just going to go over and start punching him.

The next day, we see Martin approach Rick in the hall. Rick turns toward him and Martin is seemingly ready to sock him… but then he just walks by him, wussing out and not doing anything. The next scene we see is of Rick in the principal’s office, the principal is telling him that it might be best if he didn’t go to school after all of this happened. Rick starts to get really mad, shouting that he hates being falsely accused and that he loved Katie, he ends up trashing the principal’s office before being forcibly restrained and pulled out by school security. Meanwhile, we see a scene of Martin at lunch with his friends, they notice how bummed out he looks. One of them says “hey, you know with Katie dead you’ll be valedictorian for sure”, which prompts Martin to punch him. His friend shouts “what the fuck was that for?” as Martin walks out of the cafeteria. Aislyn is sitting outside, she’s been eating her lunch outside the cafeteria since all of this has happened. She looks really uneasy. Martin starts talking with her and Aislyn is fretting about “what happens if they find out it’s not Rick? What if those cops dig just a little bit deeper? I don’t want them to arrest you too…” “Don’t worry about it,” Martin replies, holding Aislyn’s hand and trying to reassure her. There’s a quick scene of the two of them having sex in one of the school showers, and then a quick scene of them sitting on one of the benches afterward, the sex seems to be the only thing that relaxes the two of them and Aislyn is holding Martin’s hand tightly as they sit on the bench. Meanwhile, Katie’s mother is sobbing as she looks at her daughter’s finished project for school, which she’d just finished the night she was murdered. Officer Brown comes in and says that he’s almost certain that Rick is behind all this and that as soon as Katie’s body is found, they’ll be able to make an arrest. Katie’s mother insists that Rick would never hurt Katie, that he loved her and that it has to be someone else, either some kind of rapist or some jealous person from Katie’s school. As Officer Brown is leaving, he gets a phone call from someone at the station saying that they have some information about Rick. We then see a scene of Liza talking with Officer Brown, telling her about her sister’s rape. One of the other officers believes that Katie must’ve found out about the rape and that Rick killed her to keep her quiet, Officer Brown insists on talking to Aislyn and getting her statement. We see Aislyn and Martin driving to Aislyn’s house, only for Officer Brown to be waiting outside. Aislyn almost panics, thinking they’ve come to arrest her, but she calms down when she realizes she’s just being interviewed about the rape. Aislyn is calm and quiet during the interview, keeping her voice from breaking all except for one moment when she describes the worst part of the rape. When the interview is over and the cops leave, Aislyn is furious at Liza for telling the cops about the rape, Aislyn screams angrily at Liza and nearly hits her, but quickly calms and the two end up sobbing and embracing in the kitchen.

Back at the station, Officer Brown is thinking that the theory presented to him about the rape doesn’t make sense, if Rick raped Aislyn that might be why he was agitated at the police, and someone like Rick would probably kill Aislyn before ever touching Katie. He also notices that they managed to get some fingerprints off the roll of duct tape in the house. He decides to have Rick arrested for Aislyn’s rape. He is fingerprinted and the prints are tested against the prints found on the tape… the prints aren’t a match. The cops begin to realize that someone else may be responsible for Katie’s murder. As part of the investigation into the rape, Aislyn is repeatedly called into the police station, and Officer Brown notices some strangeness in Aislyn’s behavior, strange even for someone who was recently raped. As the cops seem to get closer and closer to Aislyn, Aislyn becomes more and more emotional, lashing out at Liza and even at Martin a couple of times. The two seem to be having sex with increasing frequency, and eventually, Aislyn asks Martin to go buy some ecstasy with her so she can have something to take her mind off everything that’s happening. The two stay out late doing ecstasy and having sex together until finally they go back to Aislyn’s house while Liza is sleeping. Liza, thinking the weird noises outside are someone trying to break in, goes to get her gun. Just as she is taking it out of the drawer, she hears Aislyn’s voice and breathes a sigh of relief, though as she’s putting the gun away, she notices that the chamber is stuck and that one of the bullets is missing. She confronts Aislyn as she walks in the door, telling her that she knows what happened to her was awful but that’s no excuse to be out all night with her boyfriend. She notices Aislyn is high and goes completely off on her, prompting Aislyn to swear at Liza and storm out of the house. She asks Martin to come with her, and of course Martin is EXTREMELY unsure of this, knowing his own parents would freak out if he ran off with some girl. Aislyn is begging Martin to come with her, saying that he promised he would and that she needs him. Martin finally relents, the two of them heading to a motel on the outskirts of town and checking in to a room. The next day, Liza notifies the police about Aislyn running away, and Officer Brown pays her a visit. The officer asks Liza why Aislyn would leave and if she seemed stressed about anything besides the rape. Liza tearfully tells him that she’s been really hard on Aislyn lately and that the two of them have been fighting a lot, Officer Brown asks if he can take a quick look around the house to gather any clues about where Aislyn might’ve been going. Stressed out from everything, Liza agrees to let him look. Officer Brown does a quick look around Aislyn’s room, then goes to Liza’s. He opens the drawer briefly where the gun is and sees it, noticing that it’s of a similar caliber to the gun used to kill Katie. He takes the gun as evidence and thanks Liza (without showing her the gun), promising to find Aislyn quickly and assuring her that she’s in no danger, Rick is safely in jail and can’t harm her.

Brown takes the gun from the house and runs ballistics tests on it. Meanwhile, Martin and Aislyn are lying together in the hotel room, Martin is freaking out a bit over school, Aislyn tells him not to worry and Martin finally snaps at her, telling her that she’s put him through hell over the past few days and that he’s probably in huge trouble with his parents because of her, not to mention the fact that if he misses too much at school he’ll lose out on being valedictorian. Aislyn begins yelling back at him and the two are screaming at each other when Aislyn’s phone rings. It’s Liza, and she sounds extremely worried. Her voice shaking, she asks Aislyn if she touched her gun recently. Aislyn is shocked and she stammers “what…?”Liza’s voice grows much stronger and she demands to know if Aislyn’s touched her gun. Meanwhile, we see the results of the ballistics test. Liza’s gun matches the shell casing from the bullet used to kill Katie. Officer Brown leans back in his chair, shocked. He stammers “holy shit…”. The scene switches to Aislyn at the hotel room in a full panic mode, freaking out over the fact that the cops have Liza’s gun. She grabs Martin and tells him that they have to go, get out of the city, out of state, out of the country… Martin starts to refuse to go with her, only for Aislyn to scream “if you love me you’ll come with me!” Martin finally decides to go with her, they quickly check out of the room and get in Aislyn’s car. Meanwhile, the cops are looking at traffic cam footage of Aislyn’s car, there isn’t a camera near Katie’s house so they don’t have her there, but they do have the car going into a wooded area the night of the murder. They comb the woods and find Katie’s body. Meanwhile, we see Aislyn and Martin at a restaurant some hundred miles from their hometown. On the television, breaking news announces that officers have found Katie’s body and that cops have a warrant out for Aislyn’s arrest. Aislyn and Martin look around to see people in the diner starting to notice her, the two of them quickly flee the restaurant and get back in Aislyn’s car. They manage to get off the road before cops can be called to go after them, they pull into some woods and park the car about a mile in. Martin begins to question Aislyn over some details of Katie’s death, as far as he knew, Katie was shot in the head in a panic, but the reporters said that marks on Katie’s ankles and wrists indicated she’d been tied up before being shot and that she also had signs of being beaten on her body, all Martin saw of the body before they buried it was the head. Aislyn finally confesses to Martin the details of the crime. She says that she planned to kill Katie the whole time, she was so infuriated that Rick had raped her that she wanted him to suffer, but if she killed him, even if she tortured him first, it would be too easy, he’d be dead and wouldn’t suffer but if she killed Katie, and if Rick was blamed for it, he’d spend the rest of his life in jail, she also expressed that she hoped Rick got raped in jail. Martin yells at Aislyn, asking her that if she wanted Rick to go to jail why didn’t she just tell the cops about the rape? Aislyn says that an unpopular girl like her accusing the prom king of rape without any evidence would almost surely result in him being acquitted, she had to set him up for murder and she wanted to make SOMEONE suffer for what happened to her, that person was Katie. She rants that Katie had to be the dumbest most oblivious person in the world not to notice that her boyfriend was a cheating rapist pig and that she had to suffer for letting this happen. Martin begs Aislyn to turn herself in, but Aislyn says that Martin promised to protect her and asks him if he still loves her. Martin, unable to bring himself to refuse Aislyn, unable to stop loving her even after the horrible things she did, backs down. The two of them again begin to have sex in the back of the car.

Meanwhile, there’s a huge manhunt going on for Aislyn. Liza begs Officer Brown not to arrest Aislyn, that she did nothing wrong. Officer Brown tells her that if Aislyn had just shot Rick in the head, she might get off with involuntary manslaughter… but Aislyn tortured and murdered a girl who had nothing to do with what happened. “What happened to your sister was beyond nightmarish… but she’s still a monster.” Officer Brown leaves the room while Liza breaks down sobbing. Meanwhile, Martin and Aislyn are back on the road, trying to find somewhere else to stay. They end up at a convenience store and Martin goes in while Aislyn stays in the car. Unfortunately for him, they’ve started flashing his face on the news as well, and the clerk recognizes him, tripping the silent alarm. Martin gets back on the road with Aislyn, only for a cop car to begin pursuing the two of them. Martin reluctantly pulls over and a cop comes up to their window. He pulls a gun on them and demands that Martin and Aislyn step out of the car. Aislyn is shaking but Martin convinces her to cooperate, and the two get out of the car together. The cop is going to cuff Aislyn while holding Martin at gunpoint. Suddenly, Aislyn elbows the cop in the groin and causes him to discharge his weapon, barely missing Martin. Martin lunges for the cop and grabs his gun, pointing it at the officer. Aislyn wants to take the officer hostage. She removes his sidearm and tosses it aside, but as she goes to use the officer’s own cuffs on him, he turns and sprays her in the eyes with pepper spray, causing her to swear repeatedly and yell at Martin to shoot the officer. Shaking, Martin is unable to do it. The two of them hear police sirens in the background as backup quickly arrives… Aislyn screams at Martin that they don’t have time and to shoot the officer. Martin has tears streaking down his face. The officer approaches Martin, telling him to hand over the gun. Martin looks like he’s going to fire, but keeps the gun trained on the officer and just grabs Aislyn by the wrist, pulling her into the woods. The officer quickly grabs his sidearm and gives pursuit, following Martin and Aislyn to a farmhouse on the other side of the woods. Martin and Aislyn go into the farmhouse, Aislyn tells the family inside to get out as Martin brandishes the gun. After the family flees, Martin starts yelling at Aislyn again, telling her that if they hole up inside the house they’re both screwed. Aislyn, frantic and still nearly blind from the pepper spray, tells Martin they’re going to shoot their way out. Martin tells Aislyn she’s crazy, but starts helping her look for more weapons in the house. Meanwhile, officers are now converging on the farmhouse. As Aislyn finds a shotgun, Liza calls her on the phone. Aislyn screams furiously at Liza, blaming her for leading the cops to her and saying that she wishes she didn’t have a sister. Liza is sobbing on the other end of the phone, begging Aislyn to surrender peacefully and saying she loves her. Aislyn continues to scream at her, saying awful things like she wishes her sister had died in that plane crash. It’s then that Martin realizes, finally, that whatever he loves about Aislyn, there’s a part of her that is just beyond anything he can do for her, and that the trauma of that rape by Rick can’t justify Aislyn’s actions over the last week. Aislyn angrily hangs up the phone and then smashes it to pieces. She turns to Martin, asking him if he’s going to help fight their way out of there. Martin looks at her, into the same eyes he’s been staring into ever since the start of senior year, the girl he’s loved more than anything that’s ever come into his life… and tells her no. He tells Aislyn that it’s over and that they both have to surrender and accept the consequences of their actions. Aislyn screams at him angrily, only for him to turn and walk away. She sticks the barrel of the shotgun in her mouth and threatens to pull the trigger. Martin begs Aislyn not to kill herself, Aislyn tells Martin that she will if he doesn’t help her. He stops and turns toward her, walking toward her and saying that everything’s going to be all right. She lowers the gun, smiling at him… and he immediately grabs the gun and starts struggling with her. The two of them wrestle on the ground for a while, but Martin, fueled by adrenaline and determination not to let the girl he still loves throw her life away, gets the upper hand and pins her. The next scene is of Martin using the officer’s handcuffs to cuff Aislyn to the headboard of the bed, he then starts walking away from her. Aislyn screams at him to come back, but Martin doesn’t even look at her as she walks away. She finally screams “FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU YOU PIECE OF SHIT! I HATE YOU! I FUCKING HATE YOU!”. As Martin approaches the front door of the house, tears streak rapidly down his face.

Martin opens the door and immediately steps outside, surrendering to the police. As officers rush to arrest him, Martin yells out that he did everything, he killed Katie and buried the body and he’s got Aislyn inside as his hostage cuffed to the bed. Officer Brown cuffs Martin, saying to him “that’s the biggest crock of horseshit I’ve ever heard. You’ve already ruined your shot at Princeton, don’t ruin the rest of your life by trying to protect that psycho bitch in there”. Martin starts sobbing as he’s pulled into a police car, whimpering “It’s true, she didn’t do anything…” as he’s taken into the squad car. There’s a quick scene of officers pulling a now completely emotionless Aislyn into the county jail, she doesn’t look over at Liza as she’s hauled in. We next see Martin in the police station as officers talk with his parents. Officer Brown says that if they can get their son to cooperate fully, they’ll drop all the charges accept for tampering with a body, which would get Martin probation. The next scene is of Martin and his parents, Martin keeps sobbing how he’s sorry but that he loves Aislyn and he can’t let them put her away forever, Martin’s father tells him that she’s going away forever no matter what he does and that he can’t throw his whole life away for her. Martin looks up at a small TV showing Aislyn being hauled into jail, he tries to fight away the tears as his parents place their hands on his shoulders, trying to give him strength. We see Liza at home, watching the television footage of her sister and putting her head in her hands. She goes upstairs to look for the gun, but of course the police still have it, and she bows her head, trying to fight back more tears. The next, and final scene of the film, is of that year’s graduation. One of Martin’s friends has been named valedictorian, and as he gives his speech, a moving speech about how, despite all the tragedy that’s taken place in their school that year, that life moves on and that they all have a brighter future, various scenes play out, showing Rick in a jail cell with a VERY big and mean looking cellmate, Katie’s parents laying flowers at her grave, Liza on a prison phone with her sister across the glass, Aislyn is looking into Liza’s eyes and, showing actual remorse, says only “I’m so sorry…”, to which Liza responds with the slightest of smiles, and finally, Martin sitting at home with his parents, looking online for college applications. He has a monitoring bracelet on his ankle, showing that while he didn’t get off scot free for his crimes, he did cooperate with the police and didn’t have to spend much time in jail. We next see him go up to his room, and he reaches into one of his drawers, pulling out a small picture of Aislyn he still keeps. He looks at her and clenches the picture tightly in his hand, slowly shaking his head and putting the picture away again. He then goes over to his boombox and starts playing a Slayer CD, closing his eyes and listening to the music as the film ends.

Theater Count: 370 (Oct. 14), 1,060 (Oct. 21), 2,715 (Oct. 28)

Date: Friday, October 28 (widest)

Rating: R for violence, language, brief nudity, brief drug use

Budget: $35 million

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Fairylight

Genre: Fantasy/Adventure

Cast: Meaghan Jette Martin, Ezra Miller, Brenda Song, Molly Quinn, Olivia Olson, Bill Pullman, Helen Mirren, Sam O'Neill, Kristin Chenoweth

Plot: Meridia (Meaghan Jette Martin) is a beautiful young fairy living in the magical but hidden world of Illumina, concealed behind the world's largest waterfall in a jungle deep in South America. She lives in Illumina with her mother Elisandra (Kristin Chenoweth), and spends most of the day practicing her magic with her best friends, Rosacea (Molly Quinn), Aquatia (Brenda Song), and Melodia (Olivia Olson). The fairies of Illumina are ruled over by the high queen Platina (Helen Mirren). Fairies are mostly humanlike (and are human-sized, not small like fairies in Peter Pan), except they have glistening, glowing wings that they can make appear and disappear at will, they also have powers such as generating beams of light and limited control over elements. We see a few male fairies, but their numbers are dwindling and Platina is trying to find out why by divining the sacred water that flows in from the river. Male fairies are dying younger and younger and very few male babies are being produced. While Platina is very very concerned about this serious problem, most of the fairies of Illumina, including Meridia, are living their lives in seeming bliss, and we see a few happy introductory scenes of Meridia and her friends at the beginning of the film. Meanwhile, on the outside, it's 1927, and young Eric Jackson (Ezra Miller) is traveling the world with his father Ralph (Bill Pullman), a world-renowned explorer. They're trying to carve a path into the jungles of South America to explore places deeper and darker than ever before. Their funding comes from a British aristocrat, Sir Reginald Lemon (Sam O'Neill). Lemon believes there is treasure in the South American wilds and has sent Ralph and Eric to find it. We see a quick scene of the two of them avoiding capture by natives before the scene returns to Illumina, where Platina talks to Meridia about her concerns. Meridia has what is known as the Illiminus Spark, making her the most powerful fairy of her generation. Platina needs Meridia's help in divining the reason for the sudden drop in the male population of Illumina. Meridia agrees to assist her and begins learning the spells she'll need to gain her answers. Meridia devotes herself fully to this important task, which alienates her from her friends somewhat, especially Rosacea, who is shown to be Meridia's rival (though the two are still close friends, it's a conflicted relationship). We also see another scene of Ralph and Eric together, we learn that though Eric enjoys the adventures with his father, he's becoming bored of it and desires to attend a normal university like Harvard. There is some tension between the two as we return to Meridia, who seems to have discovered a path of light through her divining. Believing the path will lead her to the answer she seeks, she follows it, even as it takes her out past the waterfall. Meanwhile, Eric and Ralph have an argument and Eric leaves his father. The next scene shows Eric looking for some way back to civilization, while Meridia unknowingly enters the human world, too caught up in following the path of light to realize she's passed the waterfall.

Meridia and Eric eventually stumble into each other. Meridia is terrified, realizing she's crossed into the world of humans (which she's been told never to do, while Eric thinks he's just found a random American girl. The two of them merely have to touch and they can understand each other's languages, Eric doesn't yet know that Meridia is actually a fairy. Her strange responses to his questions and attempts to run confuse him and he follows her, eventually finding the waterfall that gives entrance to the fairy world. Meridia tries to close the barrier behind her with a spell but Eric comes through at the last second and Meridia has to confess everything. Eric doesn't believe her at first, but once he is shown the world of the fairies he's astonished. Platina is furious at Meridia for bringing Eric in, but the fairies' oath requires them never to harm a living creature, so they cannot do anything to Eric for intruding upon them. Meridia asks Eric very kindly not to reveal where they are, and Eric agrees... though the next scene is of Eric telling his father about Illumina. He brings Ralph to the waterfall, though the barrier is back up and Eric realizes he made a mistake and that he'll never get to go into Illumina again. Ralph scolds Eric. Meridia sees this through the barrier and decides to allow them in just as Ralph is about to storm off. The next few scenes are of Ralph and Eric in Fairyworld, the other fairies are distrusting but eventually Meridia manages to get Aquatia and Melodia to trust the two humans. Elisandra, surprisingly, likes them both right away and is very hospitable, even showing the two of them some home cooking and the like. After some time spent in Fairyworld, Ralph slips out and contacts Reginald about the discovery. Reginald, realizing the implications of Illumina's mystical energies (the fairies and their plants generate energy very easily which can be used to make electricity), tasks Ralph with the job of capturing a fairy. Ralph seems uneasy about this but Reginald promises the fairy won't be harmed and that he'll be paid a lot of money for doing so, easily enough to send Eric to Harvard. While this is going on, Eric and Meridia draw closer and closer to one another, much to Rosacea's chagrin. While she puts on a show of being distrusting about Eric, in reality she has a crush on him and starts to flirt with him. Meanwhile, Meridia discovers what might be causing the disappearance of the male fairies... radio waves, generated by new radios used by humans in the last 20 years, have adversely affected the sparks that sustain the essences of male fairies. Eric knows that humanity will never give up its technology and Meridia realizes that the fairies can't force them to. Eric apologizes while Meridia tries to come to terms with the potential extinction of fairies.

A scene or two later, Ralph tries to capture Meridia and actually manages to do so, but after a few scenes in which he realizes how gentle and kind Meridia is and how much Eric cares about her, he lets her go. Meridia promises not to tell any of the other fairies about this and asks Ralph to help her discover what's going on with the fairy population. Meanwhile, with Meridia gone, Rosacea is getting closer and closer with Eric. After Meridia walks in on Rosacea getting very intimate with Eric (against his will, he's trying to get her away from him the whole time), she thinks Eric has betrayed her and storms off. Meanwhile, we see that Reginald has arrived at the waterfall with some hired thugs, he had a suspicion that Ralph wouldn't be able to do the job and decides to capture a fairy himself, he merely asks Ralph for help with getting through the barrier. Ralph refuses to help him and flees into the jungle, Reginald decides he'll wait for an opportunity to get to Illumina himself. He gets one when Meridia, sobbing, rushes out of the barrier without closing it behind her, heartbroken over Eric's betrayal. She is visited by Rosacea, who realizes how much she hurt her friend and tearfully apologizes. As the two embrace, they are set upon by the thugs who try to kidnap them both. Meridia, knowing the fairy's oath, refuses to defend herself. Eventually, Rosacea realizes that they're in danger and uses her powers to attack, a vicious wave of fire that burns several of the thugs badly... one of them to death. Catatonic with guilt, Rosacea is helpless as the other thugs and Reginald take her away. Meridia returns to Illumina and tells everyone what happened. Platina is furious, blaming Meridia for everything that's happened, Eric rushes to her defense and begs Platina to let him help and that it was his fault everything's happened. Platina says he's right and banishes him from Illumina, telling Meridia never to see him again. She then resolves to go after Rosacea herself.

We see Rosacea being tortured by Reginald and his thugs, one of the thugs was the brother of the thug Rosacea killed. Rosacea is still wrecked with guilt and trying to apologize, begging for them to just kill her. Reginald says they have bigger plans for her. Eric finally finds his father deep in the jungle, Ralph wants to rescue Rosacea from Reginald and Eric does too but they know they'll need help. Meanwhile, Platina shows up to save Rosacea and she uses powerful lightning magic to wreck Reginald's camp and knock out most of his thugs. She's about to save Rosacea when Reginald shoots her point blank in the head. She dies immediately, to Rosacea's horror. Reginald smirks and laughs, saying "funny... for all their power they're as fragile as us". Rosacea clenches her fists... she's now determined to avenge Platina. Meanwhile, Ralph and Eric are at the waterfall, begging to be let back into Illumina. Eventually, Elisandra relents and lets them in. They tell the fairie sthat Rosacea can be saved but they need help. Meridia, Aquatia, and Melodia all agree to help but then a ripple of darkness goes through Illumina... it's the energy distortion caused by Platina's death. All the fairies realize what happened and begin mourning. Some are furious with Ralph and Eric, but Meridia, tearfully and emotionally, convinces the fairies that Ralph and Eric did not cause any of this, that greed is not unique to humans and that many fairies throughout time have committed far worse deeds. She says that there are fairies who would destroy humanity to save themselves and that's wrong, no one has the right to make that choice and that the only thing that can righteously be done is to protect the friends you have the best you can. She then goes with her friends, Eric, and Ralph to save Rosacea.

Back at Reginald's camp, Rosacea tries to lash out at him but she's weakened from the torture and chained up tightly. Ralph and his thugs are loading Rosacea into a plane when suddenly, the three fairies arrive. Aquatia and Melodia attack with their powers but Meridia is still reluctant. The thugs manage to knock out Aquatia and Melodia and Ralph is badly beaten down as well. Eric convinces Meridia to attack finally and she knocks out all of the thugs and wounds Reginald. A fight ensues as Reginald tries to stave off Meridia and Eric, it eventually ends with Reginald accidentally stumbling into the propeller of the plane and being killed. Meridia frees Rosacea, who apologizes for everything and says she deserves to be exiled, Meridia tells Rosacea that she's a brave fairy and all she wants is to be her friend. The fairies give Platina a grand funeral ceremony and Meridia tells Eric that she knows their kind is doomed because of humanity's activity. Eric says that if humanity has the power to doom the fairies, it also has the power to save them. Using some knowledge he got from a book he'd been reading at the start of the film, he is able to construct a kind of Faraday cage using metal plating around the mountain cave where the fairies live, blocking off the radio waves. It might not bring back the males that are already dead but their numbers should eventually recover. A few of the fairies decide to take this knowledge to other fairy colonies throughout the world and they flutter off to do so. Rosacea is named the new leader of Illumina, while Meridia decides to follow Eric and Ralph on their travels around the world. The three of them are seen on another adventure as the film ends, with Meridia passionately kissing Eric.

Date: Friday, June 24

Budget: $130 million

Theater Count: 3,705

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for action violence, frightening scenes, brief nudity

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Con Air 2: Terror In The Sky

Genre: Action

Cast: Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, Arnold Vosloo, Monica Potter, Carrie Underwood, Oded Fehr, Jon Voight, T.J. Ramini

Plot: It's 15 years since the events of the original Con Air, and Cameron Poe (Nicolas Cage) is now a US Marshal. After 9/11, he became a US Air Marshal. He still works closely with his trusted friend Vince Larkin (John Cusack). He lives in Washington DC with his wife (Monica Potter), while his daughter (Carrie Underwood) is attending college at nearby Georgetown. Poe is assigned to serve as the air marshal on a flight carrying a bunch of terrorists from a prison (inferred to Guantanamo Bay) that has been shut down by the government. The terrorists are to be transferred to a supermax prison in the US via plane. While Poe is serving on this mission, a terrorist leader (Arnold Vosloo) secretly hiding in Washington DC informs Poe that he has taken Poe's wife and daughter hostage and that he must assist the terrorists in taking control of the plane. What ensues is an escalating crisis as the terrorists, led on the plane by a vicious, sadistic terror cell leader (T.J. Ramini) want to crash the plane into a special joint session of Congress being held that night. Poe must work to keep his wife and daughter safe while preventing the terrorists from crashing the plane into the Capitol. He is assisted by a sympathetic reformed terrorist (Oded Fehr) who helps Poe get some communication to the outside world. Eventually, Larkin finds out about the terrorists' intended plot and wants to help Poe land the plane safely where it can be retaken, but Larkin's boss (Jon Voight) wants the plane shot out of the sky. Eventually, Poe manages to retake the plane, leading to a spectacular crash landing on the Washington Mall (like the Vegas crash in the first film, no innocent people are hurt as Poe manages to get warning out in time). Unfortunately, Poe's help, the reformed terrorist, has been killed by the leader of the terrorists on the plane (who Poe then killed before the crash). After crashing the plane, Poe races to where the terrorists are keeping his wife and daughter. With Larkin's help, and in a spectacular firefight, Poe manages to kill all the terrorists and save his family. He retires from the US Marshalls afterwards.

The theme songs for the film, both sung by Carrie Underwood, include a new version of "How Do I Live Without You?" which plays after Poe rescues his family, and "Daddy Always Saves The Day", the film's official theme song and a ballad that is intended to win a Best Song Oscar.

Date: Friday, April 29

Budget: $110 million

Theater Count: 3,486

Rating: R for strong violence, language

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Disco Dan

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bryan Cranston, John Travolta, Kim Basinger, Bridget Mendler, Danny DeVito, Betty White

Plot: Dan (Bryan Cranston) is an ordinary office worker who never got over the end of the disco craze. He tries to dance disco any chance he gets. His obsession with disco has cost him many dates which is why he's never been married. One night at the nearby disco hall, a divorced woman named Misty (Kim Basinger) is impressed with his disco dancing and the two strike up a relationship. Her daughter (Bridget Mendler) hates disco but she likes Dan and doesn't mind her mom dating him. However, when a flamboyant new disco dancer, Steve (John Travolta) starts making the rounds at the disco, he catches Misty's eye, Dan finds himself struggling to work up a groove. Misty's daughter hates Steve and decides to help Dan mix it up a little, and eventually, Dan wins back Misty's heart with his killer new moves! Danny DeVito plays the owner of the disco hall, while Betty White plays a woman who lives across the street and keeps calling the police because she thinks the disco is too loud.

Date: Friday, February 11

Theater Count: 2,915

Budget: $35 million

Rating: PG-13 for language and some sexual dialogue

Everyone Dies

Genre: Horror/Comedy

Cast: Miley Cyrus, Daveigh Chase, Michael Cera, Josh Peck, Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, Quentin Aaron

Plot: Six hard-partying teens come across a mysterious house of horrors. There's Ashley (Miley Cyrus), the slutty prom queen, Kelly (Daveigh Chase), the shy, nerdy girl, Bobby (Michael Cera), the nerdy guy who likes the nerdy girl but she won't give him the time of day, Mark (Josh Peck), the stoner of the group), Amy (Snooki), the slutty poor girl, and Daquan (Quentin Aaron), the nervous football player. They want to throw a big party at the house and get really high, but as the marijuana fumes go up through the rafters, it causes a mysterious force to awaken and the house seals shut. One by one, the members of the group are killed. First Daquan dies (of course), then Amy, then Mark. Bobby is trying to get Kelly to sleep with her, and she agrees, since she doesn't want to die a virgin. But as they're lying in the bed about to have sex, they both get killed as well. Finally, only Amy is left. She tries to escape the house and almost does, but at the last moment before she can escape, she trips and impales herself on a long, rusty nail.

Date: Friday, October 7

Theater Count: 2,780

Budget: $40 millionR

Rating: R for violence, language, drug use, brief nudity

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Spring Awakening

Genre: Drama/Romance/Musical

Cast: Hunter Parrish (Melchior), Alexandra Socha (Wendla)

Release Date: 4/8

Theater Count: 2863

Budget: $40 million

Running Time: 124 minutes

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sensuality, thematic content, and brief strong language

Plot Summary: An adaptation of the acclaimed 2008 Broadway musical

Wendla Bergmann, an adolescent in late-nineteenth century Germany, laments that her mother has not taught her the lessons she needs to learn in life (“Mama Who Bore Me”). She tells her mother that it is time she learned where babies come from, but her mother cannot bring herself to explain the facts about conception clearly to Wendla. Instead, she simply tells Wendla that to conceive a child a woman must love her husband with all of her heart. The other girls in town appear to be similarly innocent and are upset about their lack of knowledge ("Mama Who Bore Me" (Reprise)).

At school, some teenage boys are studying in Latin class. When Moritz Stiefel, a very nervous and intense young man, sleepily misquotes a line, the teacher chastises him harshly. Moritz’s classmate, the rebellious and highly intelligent Melchior Gabor, tries to defend him, but the teacher will have none of it, and hits Melchior with a stick. Melchior reflects on school and society and expresses his intent to change things ("All That’s Known").

Moritz and Melchior talk and Moritz describes intimate dreams he has had about a childhood friend, Ilse and is worried he is a freak. To comfort the panicked Moritz, Melchior tells Moritz that all of the boys at their age get the dreams. The burned-out boys tell about their own frustrating thoughts and desires. ("The Bitch of Living"). Moritz, is not comfortable talking about the subject with Melchior and quickly breaks off the talk.

Some girls are gathered together after school and tease each other as they fantasize about marrying the boys in the town. At the top of the list is the radical, intelligent, and good-looking Melchior ("My Junk"). Moritz, more comfortable, talks more with Melchior and says his dreams are only more vivid. Melchior tries to calm and comfort his friend, but Moritz runs off in frustration. All of the boys and girls express their desires for physical intimacy ("Touch Me").

Searching for flowers for her mother, Wendla stumbles upon Melchior. The two share a moment while sitting together in front of a tree and reminisce about being childhood friends. Both consider their physical desires, but they do not do act on them ("The Word of Your Body"). Meanwhile, at school, the teacher and schoolmaster cannot pass everyone in the class, so they decide to fail Moritz, deeming his passing grade is not up to the school's lofty standards.

Martha, one of the girls, accidentally admits to her friends that her father abuses her and that her mother is either oblivious or uncaring. The other girls are horrified to hear this, but Martha makes them promise not to tell anyone, lest she end up like Ilse, who now wanders homeless and aimless because her parents kicked her out of the house ("The Dark I Know Well"). Later, Wendla finds Melchior again at his spot in the woods and tells him about Martha's abuse. Melchior is appalled to hear this, but Wendla wants to understand her friend’s pain and asks Melchior to hit her with a stick. At first Melchior is determined to do nothing of the sort, but reluctantly complies. He gets carried away in the beating, but then runs off, disgusted with himself, as Wendla weeps on the ground. Alone, Wendla finds that Melchior has left his journal on the ground. She picks it up and takes it with her.

Moritz is told he has failed his final examination, and his father reacts with disdain and contempt; rather than attempting to understand his son's pain, Moritz's father is only concerned with how the others in town will react. Moritz writes to Melchior’s mother, his only adult friend, for money to flee to America; she tenderly but firmly denies his request and promises to write his parents to discourage them from being hard on him ("And Then There Were None"). Devastated by the refusal and feeling he has few choices left, Moritz begins to contemplate suicide.

In a stuffy hayloft during a storm, Melchior cries out in his frustration at being caught between childhood and adulthood (“The Mirror-Blue Night”). Wendla finds him once again, telling him she wants to return his journal, and each apologizes for what happened the last time they met. Melchior then awkwardly admits to Wendla that he has been having dreams about her since the incident. Wendla avoids the topic but before long, they begin to kiss; Wendla resists his advances at first but then gives in more. Melchior understands Wendla is unfamiliar with all this and says he can stop, but Wendla says she feels something powerful unlike anything before and makes a move on him. They begin to make love in the hayloft ("I Believe").

Moritz, despondent and having another vivid dream of him and Ilse, lashes out at his parents for berating him for something that isn’t his fault and as a result is thrown out of his house.

Wendla and Melchior are finishing their moment of intimacy in the hayloft; they reflect on and discuss what has just happened (“The Guilty Ones”).

Moritz, wanders the town at dusk, carrying a pistol ("Don't Do Sadness"). He comes across free-spirited Ilse, who he has not spoken to in years, and secretly loves. Ilse, who also secretly loves Moritz, tells him she has found refuge at an artists' colony; and they remenise in some childhood memories and "remarkable times" ("Blue Wind"). She invites him to come home with her and join her in sharing some more childhood memories and perhaps something more, Moritz refuses as he's only set on killing himself, but Ilse does everything she can to convince him to change his mind ("Don't do Sadness/Blue Wind"). After coming close to kissing and admitting their feelings for each other, Moritz refuses, and Ilse leaves very hurt. After suddenly changing his mind, he desperately calls after her, recognizing his true feelings for her, but it is too late; she is gone. Feeling rejected once again, Moritz feels that he has lost everything and the world he sees is dark and cold. Believing that he has nowhere to turn, Moritz shoots himself.

At Moritz's funeral, each of his friends including Ilse, drop a flower into his grave, and Melchior chastises Moritz’s father for being so cruel to his friend, as the other students look at Moritz's father with disgust ("Left Behind"). Back at school, the schoolmaster and teacher feel the need to call attention away from Moritz, in order to absolve themselves of their own guilt. After interrogating some students about Moritz’s life, they lay the blame of Moritz's death on Melchior, who they judge as a bad influence, and Melchior is expelled with nothing he can do about it ("Totally Fucked").

Melchior has fallen into a depression and is visited in the special spot in the woods from before by Wendla, who tries to tell him that Moritz’s death wasn’t his fault. They both declare their love for one another and their resolve to stand together before having another intimate encounter (ORIGINAL SONG – “Against the World”)

Wendla has become ill, and her mother takes her to a doctor. He assures them both that Wendla is suffering from anemia and will be fine, but he takes Wendla's mother aside and tells her that Wendla is pregnant. When her mother confronts her, Wendla is completely shocked, not understanding how this could have happened. She realizes that her mother lied to her about how babies are made and expected her to know the consequences of her actions with Melchior. Although she berates her mother, her mother rejects the guilt and insists Wendla tell her who the father is. Wendla reluctantly surrenders a passionate note Melchior sent her. Wendla reflects somberly on her current condition, but ends with optimism about her future child ("Whispering"). Meanwhile, Melchior's parents argue about their son's fate; his mother does not think Melchior has done anything wrong. When Melchior's father tells his wife about Wendla's pregnancy, however, she agrees that they must send Melchior away, which they do without telling him that Wendla is pregnant.

During this time, Melchior and Wendla only keep contact through the use of letters, with Ilse delivering them. At the reform school, Melchior gets into a fight with some boys who mock him about Wendla’s letters. Melchior finally learns from the letters about Wendla and their child, and he escapes from the institution to find her. At the same time Wendla’s mother forces Wendla to consent to an underground abortion and takes her to a secret practitioner. When Melchior reaches town, he finds Ilse to have her get Wendla to meet him at the cemetery at midnight. Ilse, sad, reluctantly agrees. At the cemetery Melchior stumbles across Moritz's grave, and swears to himself that he and Wendla will raise their child in a compassionate environment. When Wendla is late to the meeting, Melchior begins to feel uneasy. Looking around, Melchior sees a new and reads the name on the stone - Wendla Bergman - and realizes that Wendla died from the forced abortion. Overwhelmed by shock and grief, he takes out a razor with the intention of killing himself but then sees Moritz's and Wendla's spirits rising from their graves to offer him their strength (ambiguous whether it is real or him hallucinating). They persuade him to journey on, and he resolves to live and to carry their memories with him forever ("Those You've Known").

Melchior drops the razor as the vision fades and falls to his knees and weeps. Ilse then arrives and apologizes for not telling him before, saying she didn’t have the heart to. Melchior forgives her and the two talk about how they feel out of place in a world that takes those they love from them. The two, both crushed by their experiences, renew their faith in themselves and their futures and resolve to not let others dictate it to them in a song about life and hope (“The Song of Purple Summer”)

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The Day I Met Mina

Genre: Romance/Drama

Cast: Zac Efron, Carey Mulligan, Kiefer Sutherland, Marlee Matlin, Brady Corbet, Jessica DiCicco

Plot: Bart Marshall (Zac Efron) returns from Iraq after the end of the war. He's been hoping to get into college with the scholarship he earned in the army, but the college he wanted to go to doesn't accept him because his test scores weren't quite good enough. While at the college talking with a counselor, he meets Mina (Carey Mulligan), a student at the college. The two of them eventually strike up a relationship and Mina wants him to live with her, though this would mean that he'd have to delay his own college education for a while. He's getting a lot of tension from his alcoholic father John (Kiefer Sutherland), who wants Bart to "man up" and support a family instead of sponging off of Mina. Meanwhile, his deaf mother (Marlee Matlin) has cancer and it's becoming harder and harder for John to take care of her with his alcoholism, forcing Bart to spend more and more time with her. Bart also has to deal with his trouble-making best friend from high school, Nate (Brady Corbet) who has started beating his girlfriend (Jessica DiCicco). While Bart is happy with Mina, he knows that being with her has made everybody's lives worse. The longer he stays with her, the more his life starts to fall apart. His mother dies in an accident while John is out at the bar, and eventually, Nate's girlfriend snaps and kills him. John ends up staying with Mina through all of this and eventually he finds a nearby vocational school that will take him. He knows that the day he met Mina was bad for the people he loves, but he has a new love now and he resolves to start a family better than the one he had.

Date: Friday, April 8

Rating: R for language and some violence and drug use

Budget: $28 million

Theater Count: 2,551

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I think this could be an amusing comedy. (Yeah its not a big plot, but it sounds amusing)Santa Goes to JailFamily ComedyCast: Steve MartinPlot: One Christmas Eve Santa (Martin) is on his run like usual. But then he stops in New York City where he falls down the chimney. And then he sets off the burglar alarm. Then Santa gets arrested. Soon outbreak goes out as kids are freaked out that Santa is arrested. The elves now have a backup plan. They have to save Christmas-and fast. So now the elves go around sending presents while we see comical moments of Santa in jail. The movie ends with Santa getting out, and one of the prisoners having his faith restored in Christmas.Rated PG for some crude humor.November 23rd (Seems empty)3,789 theaters60M budget.Runtime: 110 minutes.

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Heh, we both put something on April 8. I'll keep it there, weekends usually have two wide openers anyway and Mina's not gonna be any kind of a hit.

Day Of The Destructor

Genre: Action

Cast: Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Samuel L. Jackson, Charlize Theron, Shia LeBeouf, Benicio Del Toro

Plot: A mysterious laboratory beneath the suburbs of New York City is designing the next generation of AI for use in military vehicles. They are testing it in use for a large, silver tank-like robot known as the Destructor, which can be sent into terrorist camps to completely destroy them. The lead scientists, Tim and Samantha (Ben Affleck and Kate Beckinsale) are wary about the Destructor's potential and the learning capabilities of the AI, but the lab's boss (Benicio del Toro) demands they go forward, hoping to make billions from an expensive military contract. However, during final tests, the AI goes haywire and the Destructor begins a furious rampage, destroying the safety barricades in the lab and killing many scientists. Tim and Samantha flee the destruction, hoping to get their information to Samantha's old college professor, Dr. Ratner (Samuel L. Jackson) who might know a way to sabotage the machine. Meanwhile, we also follow a young tourist named Jackson (Shia LeBeouf) who repeatedly narrowly escapes death at the creature's hands. Meanwhile, the boss of the lab hires a mercenary leader (Charlize Theron) to bring the machine down, hoping to get control of a crucial piece of evidence in the machine's memory banks that will incriminate him if the machine is stopped by the army. The Destructor causes mass havoc and destruction throughout New York, while Tim and Samantha and Dr. Ratner try to stop it (and also evade the mercenary leader who is trying to kill them). Eventually, the machine is destroyed (with help from Jackson) and the mercenary leader is subdued. New York City is saved, and the boss of the lab goes to jail for his recklessness.

Date: Friday, June 17

Theater Count: 3,600

Rating: PG-13 for action violence and language

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December romance filler:

A Bend in the Road

Genre: Drama/Romance

Cast: Eric Bana (Miles Ryan), Jessica Chastain (Sarah Andrews), Michael Pitt (Brian Andrews), Casey Donnolly (Jonah Ryan)

Release Date: 12/9

Theater Count: 3124 Theaters

Budget: $40 million

Running Time: 105 Minutes

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sensuality and language

Plot Summary: Adapted from the Nicholas Sparks novel (so women and couples will give it a Christmas super bonus!) :P

Miles Ryan, a deputy sheriff in the North Carolina town of New Bern, loses his wife Missy in a hit-and-run accident. He wants to bring the driver that killed his wife to justice. His son Jonah is having some trouble at school in his new grade and by working to deal with that Miles meets his son's teacher Sarah Andrews, who moved to his town from Baltimore during the summer after a difficult divorce.

Drawn together by Jonah's school troubles, the two start to date and eventually fall in love over the fall months. The most significant date is when they go on the town's Ghost Walk, which Jonah suggests to Miles as a cool way for his dad to be with Sarah. On the Ghost Walk Miles and Sarah listen to a ghost story about a couple who lived in war times. The couple were forbidden to see each other, however, they communicated through the use of candles, which signified that they missed and loved each other. The man is killed by an order of the girl's father, sending the girl into depression. The night before, he had sent her a letter, asking her to marry him. Her response would be two candles for yes or one candle for no. She lights two candles and commits suicide over grief of her lost love. The night turns out to be a success as Miles and Sarah really fall for one another and spend an intimate night together at Sarah's apartment (Jonah spending the night at a friend's house).

Everything is going perfect between the two. Miles and Jonah meets Sarah's entire family and is somewhat sure of his future with her. Sarah's family is warm and accepting and great, though Sarah's brother Brian is a bit nervous around Miles and Jonah. He half-heartedly tries to dissuade Sarah from the relationship, saying she just had a difficult divorce and he doesn't want her to get committed to another big relationship only for it to fall apart. Sarah appreciates the concern but says Brian is worrying too much.

Several scenes show more closeness developing between Miles, Sarah, and Jonah. During these scenes Miles is reminded of his past when information about Missy's accident is revealed and he works to uncover more details. He eventually uncovers the startling truth: Brian, Sarah's brother, is revealed to be the one who hit Missy. Miles is enraged and after a very tense Thanksgiving dinner with Sarah's family as he tries to keep it all in, he confronts Sarah and Brian outside the house afterwards. Miles, furious, believes that Sarah knew this from the beginning and planned everything out. Sarah is completely awestruck and doesn't know what to do. Miles explodes on Sarah and says that they're through. Sarah and Brian must fight and survive through Miles' dangerous anger and troubling wants for revenge, as Miles' past actions haunt them as they wait for something to happen.

Eventually, Miles' makes sense of everything and makes a decision. Miles waits at the cemetery by Missy's grave where he knows Brian will come. Brian does indeed come, carrying flowers and wondering when Miles would approach him. When Miles speaks to Brian, he is afraid, but decides to accept what might happen. Brian describes what happened with Missy's death and says he made a stupid mistake falling asleep at the wheel after a long day. Instead, Miles tells Brian to never mention the accident to anyone ever in his life, and that he forgives him, as long as he does something worthwhile with his life. Miles decides to keep Brian's confession as a secret, only between him and Sarah. Brian goes home, utterly surprised, but knows that what Miles said was right.

Brian then talks with Sarah about his meeting with Miles and that he is going to be moving away from the town so that Miles doesn't have to go through life with a daily reminder of what happened to his wife. He says that it's also the only way that Miles and Sarah will have a chance to have a happy life. Sarah says that if he hasn't already called, then there is no chance that they're getting back together. Brian asks her to think about it and then leaves. Meanwhile Miles has returned home and talks with Jonah, who is having trouble sleeping. The two talk about Miles and Sarah and Jonah asks if his dad really loves her. Miles says he does and Jonah wants him to go after her. Miles says he doesn't know since he made a mistake getting angry with her. Jonah says he has an idea.

A week or so later, Sarah returns home from a late evening at school. She gets out of her car and looks up at her apartment window when she sees something unexpected, two candles are lighted. She smiles and goes inside to find Miles and Jonah waiting for her. The three share a warm embrace.

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Name: Not So Tall TalesDirector: Mike MitchellGenre: Family Comedy/Adventure (Live Action)Date: Aug 12.Cast: Zachary Gordon (Jimmy), Joel Courtney (Mark) , Riley Griffiths (Petey) , Ryan Lee (Jeff) , Elle Fanning (Angela), Chloe Moretz (Erica) Dax Shepard (Evil CIA Guy), Paul Walker (Good CIA Guy)Plot: A bunch of junior high kids discover a book that has a bunch of funny stories. At first, they aren't very impressed with them, but as time goes on, they realize the book isn't fiction, at least not in the normal sense. It seems to be predicting the future, and Jimmy insists that he must guard the book, but Mark accuses him of using it to impress Erica, something Jimmy cannot deny.Two generic "CIA guys" battle wits when they both discover that these tales aren't so tall... that they are coming true. The Evil CIA Guy tries to bribe the kids to give him the book, but Angela is able to see through his plot even as he has most of the others convinced. They end up giving the book to the good "CIA Guy" and everything seems wrapped up, until the Evil CIA Guy manages to convince the whole town that the kids are to blame for all of this, that it is not really a magical book ,but the kids read these stories and then cause them to happen, claiming the book has magic power.They manage to convince everyone of the truth, and they accept that the book must be burned, because it's not just magical, but contains some evil power. When the book is burned, we see a spirit, it thanks the kids for letting it free. "Evil CIA Guy" is jailed and everything ends up mostly happy for a certain amount of time that isn't ever after.Theaters: 3,133MPAA Rating: PG (Some rude humor, mild language)Budget: 30mRuntime: 94 minutes

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Some more weeks need fillers so I'm gonna do some, I want the vast majority of weekends to have at least two wide openers. We should have at LEAST 120 films total for the year if possible.

Phone Fiend

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Tom Felton, Sara Paxton, Bruce Willis, Michelle Rodriguez

Plot: A young hacker (Tom Felton) discovers how to make people's cell phones blow up at will in large enough explosions to injure or kill anyone he wants at any time. At first he uses this ability to prank people by blowing up their phones when they're not near them, but soon he decides to start using it to kill anyone he doesn't like and hold people hostage for money. Sara Paxton plays his conflicted girlfriend who tries to figure out whether or not to stop him. Bruce Willis plays a cop who tries to catch him, Michelle Rodriguez plays a bank executive who the hacker tries to extort for money. At the end of the film, the hacker's girlfriend decides to stop him by shooting him, he gets away from her but she blows up his own cell phone, killing him.

Date: Friday, January 14

Rating: PG-13 for violence and language

Theater Count: 2,811

Budget: $30 million

You Just Got Beat By A Girl

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Marsden, Katie Holmes, Meira Blinkoff, Nicole Sullivan, Ellen Page, Aziz Ansari

Plot: A 5-year-old girl named Kelly (Meira Blinkoff) discovers she has a talent for playing first-person shooter video games. In fact, she ends up being the best Modern Warfare player in the world, much to the chagrin of older gamers who are humiliated when she beats them. One of her victims, the defending world champ (Aziz Ansari) decides to work on tracking down a player who can beat her. He finds one in a girl at his college named Ally (Ellen Page) with an eidetic memory and a profound talent for games. Ally is good enough to beat Kelly, but she always holds back right at the end of the match, as she can't bring herself to beat a little girl. James Marsden and Katie Holmes play Kelly's parents, who don't want their daughter playing such a violent video game competitively at first but when they see that she just enjoys making older boys cry (clapping and laughing when she beats them), they decide to let her keep playing. Nicole Sullivan plays Kelly's teacher, who realizes how gifted Kelly is and tries to get her to do other hobbies. Eventually, Kelly and Ally face off at the world Modern Warfare championships. Ally plays her absolute best but Kelly beats her anyway. When asked if she's going to play again, however, Kelly says she's bored and she decides to start playing guitar (which her teacher helped get her into). The old world champ is mad that Ally couldn't beat Kelly, but he mellows out a bit when Ally kisses him (the two of them are shown to be getting closer and closer romantically throughout the film).

Date: Friday, January 21

Rating: PG for some mild language

Theater Count: 2,875

Budget: $32 million

Everglades

Genre: Action/Thriller

Cast: Jamie Foxx, Mitchell Musso, Miranda Cosgrove, John Malkovich, Amy Adams, Harrison Ford

Plot: A Florida state trooper (Jamie Foxx) is in pursuit of a dangerous murderer (John Malkovich) who has entered the Everglades swamp. Meanwhile, a young couple (Mitchell Musso, Miranda Cosgrove) is camping nearby, unaware of the danger. The murderer takes the young couple hostage, while elsewhere, a scientist (Amy Adams) studying alligator behavior discovers a horrifically large and violent alligator in the swamp. She and a forest ranger (Harrison Ford) cross paths with the state trooper, while the trooper must evade the crocodile and capture the criminal before he escapes and/or kills the hostages. At the end of the film, the hostages are rescued and the alligator eats the criminal before he can shoot the trooper, the alligator is tranquilized by the park ranger and he and the scientist take the alligator back to a laboratory for study.

Date: Friday, January 28

Rating: PG-13 for violence and language

Theater Count: 3,025

Budget: $47 million

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Teratoma

Genre: Drama/Horror

Cast: Melissa Leo, Jim Caviezel, Kurt Russell

Plot: A woman (Melissa Leo) discovers that she has a massive tumor that is growing at a horrific rate. Though the tumor is benign, the rate of growth of the tumor is such that it threatens her life and eventually prevents her from getting out of bed. The tumor is so massive that body parts and teeth begin growing in it, and eventually it is discovered that there's some kind of twisted, half-human creature forming in it. Operating on the tumor is too risky, it's too close to vital organs to make operation feasible, but as the strange thing inside the tumor grows more and more, the woman realizes that her life depends on the tumor being excised as soon as possible. Jim Caviezel plays the woman's husband while Kurt Russell plays her doctor.

Date: Friday, February 4

Rating: R for language, some graphic scenes and nudity

Theaters: 2,427

Budget: $20 million

Siri

Genre: 3-D Animation/Fantasy

Cast: Jennette McCurdy, Zachary Tyler Eisen, Patrick Dempsey, Anna Gunn, Tim Curry, Lana Parilla, Robin Williams

Plot: Siri (Jennette McCurdy) is a high school girl who dreams of something more but is stuck in an ordinary town with no one but her best friend Matt (Zachary Tyler Eisen) to hang out with. Her teacher, Mr. Ghost (Patrick Dempsey) notices her depression and tells her to read one of his old books. The book is about a girl who came to a mysterious land to guide a beautiful warrior woman to victory over a powerful wizard. Siri reads the book cover to cover, noticing a strange annotation on one of the pages. The annotation is actually a set of directions that guides her to a cave where she and Matt are sucked into the land from the story. The warrior woman, Alandra (Anna Gunn), reminds Siri a lot of herself but is much stronger and braver, and thinks Siri is a clueless girl at first, but realizes she needs Siri's help and Siri's knowledge of the story helps her decipher the plans of the wizard, Verden (Tim Curry) and his dangerous and powerful daughter, Alandra's rival Sazana (Lana Parilla). At some point, Mr. Ghost comes looking for Siri and Matt and gets sucked into the mysterious portal as well. Siri and Alandra are assisted by the kooky doctor, Zaptrap (Robin Williams), who creates inventions that Siri uses to help her become as strong as Alandra. Eventually, Alandra battles Sazana, who has captured Dr. Ghost, while Siri and Matt battle Verden with Zaptrap's help. The good guys win, the book finally gets its happy ending, and Siri and Matt return home. Siri's experience with her adventures helps her become braver at school and make more friends, while she and Matt become a couple. Dr. Ghost brings Alandra home from the book and she settles in the real world and she and Dr. Ghost become a couple as well.

Date: Friday, February 25

Rating: PG for some action violence and scary scenes

Theaters: 3,307

Budget: $60 million

Land Of Storms

Genre: Action/Historical

Cast: Gerard Butler, Mia Wasikovska, Chris Evans, Graham McTavish, David Wenham, Jamie Dornan

Plot: In the 11th century, a group of Celtic warriors set out onto the ocean to find a new land to call home. Led by Braig (Gerard Butler) and his young, fiery wife Mela (Mia Wasikovska), the warriors land on a small island battered by fierce winds and powerful storms. The island is also inhabited by fierce creatures and a tribe descended from Vikings that colonized it centuries ago. Led by the powerful warrior Maraug (Graham McTavish), the native tribe decides to kill the newcomers, and a fierce war ensues, between the two tribes, the creatures, and the elements themselves for control of this new land.

Date: Friday, March 4

Rating: PG-13 for violence and brief nudity

Theaters: 3,228

Budget: $85 million

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Really really really short fillers (even in my book they are very short)Beer BuddiesComedyCast: Seth Rogan, Jonah HillPlot: Al (Rogan) and Ryan (Hill) are 2 best friends since middle school. One night though, Al's wife cheats on him. So now him and Ryan decide to go out for beer. The 2 who are called now "The Beer Buddies" have one wild night then. As they go out and party like crazy until they get arrested the next day. Al's wife then bails him out going "Okay now, if your going to go that crazy, I wont cheat on you again"Rated R for strong language, drinking, drug use, sexual images and some violence.July 29th3,035 theaters.25M budget.Spider BabyHorror/ComedyCast: Unknowns.Plot: A scientist that is doing research on spiders catches a spider baby. Soon though the spider baby grows and grows and causes havoc on the town in b-movie fashion. The spider does things such as eats the old woman and her dog and other comical stuff. Though shown in a serious matter. In the end the scinetist destroys it, for now.Rated PG-13 for violence, language and suggestive scenesJanuary 21st2,344 theaters.13M budget.

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Our Friend The Witch

Genre: Comedy/Fantasy

Cast: Beth Behrs, Orlando Bloom, unknown kids

Plot: Lavidia (Beth Behrs) is a young witch who lives in a forest. Her mother, a vicious and evil witch, has just been killed by a mob of villagers from the nearby town that was terrorized by witches for centuries. Lavidia, fearing for her life, doesn't want to be evil like her mother and her ancestors, but wicked magic is all she knows how to do and no one in the village will be her friend, in fact, everyone wants her dead. One day, however, some kids lost in the woods come across her lair. She's very hungry so she decides to cook and eat the kids and turn to the dark side, but the kids are so friendly to her that she can't bear to cook them. She befriends the kids and they decide to help her get into the good graces of the village, but trouble comes from the distrusting villagers and a handsome bounty hunter (Orlando Bloom) who kills witches for gold. Can Lavidia win the trust of the villagers and the bounty hunter's love?

Date: Friday, March 18

Rating: PG for some scary moments

Theaters: 2,727

Budget: $46 million

Lucky In Love

Genre: Romance/Comedy

Cast: Ashton Kutcher, Olivia Munn

Plot: Lucky (Ashton Kutcher) is one of Las Vegas' most successful gamblers and biggest playboys, he's slept with hundreds of women but he's never found a special woman to settle down with. Morgan (Olivia Munn) is a maid at one of Vegas' most swanky hotels. She has an awful job and gets no respect. When Lucky falls for her, Morgan doesn't want to give him the time of day, despite all the riches he promises her. We find out that she secretly likes him but she doesn't want her friends to think she's a gold digger. Can Morgan prove that she values love more than money so that she and Lucky can be together?

Date: Friday, March 25

Rating: PG-13 for language and some sexual dialogue

Theaters: 2,904

Budget: $40 million

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Sarah's Surefire Cure For The Blues

Genre: Comedy/Romance

Cast: Olivia Thirlby, Anton Yelchin, John Lithgow, Teri Hatcher

Plot: Sarah (Olivia Thirlby) is a college psychology student looking for an idea for her graduate thesis. She has a gift for cheering people up, but doesn't know exactly what she does to help make people happy, so she tries to write down everything she does in an attempt to figure out exactly what it is that makes everyone so happy. Her professor (John Lithgow) is quite hard on her, thinking her project is stupid, but her notes start to become a book that catches the eye of a hotshot publisher (Teri Hatcher) looking for the next big hit nonfiction book and thinking Sarah's work could make a great bestseller. While this is going on, Sarah is trying to hook up with a literature student (Anton Yelchin) who seems to be happy all the time despite enjoying greatly depressing works of literature. Sarah is conflicted between doing real psychological research for her thesis and cobbling her notes together into the book that the publisher wants her to write. Eventually, she discovers what it is about her that makes others so happy, while using the information she's gathered from her boyfriend's favorite literature to write her thesis on the psychology behind why people read certain things. Sarah tells the publisher that she doesn't have any grand secret for making people happy and that any book she tries to write wouldn't help anyone at all. She instead decides to work toward becoming a psychology professor, while recommending the publisher to her boyfriend instead.

Date: Friday, April 15

Rating: PG-13 for language and sexual dialogue

Theaters: 2,886

Budget: $22 million

Northwest Nightmare

Genre: Action

Cast: Zachary Levi, Olivia Wilde, Kerry Washington, Kevin Spacey, Mark Wahlberg, Kate Hudson, Chris Jericho, Lucy Liu

Plot: The film depicts a horrifying future scenario in which the Cascadia fault just off the Washington state coast ruptures, causing a massive category 9 earthquake that generates a huge tsunami and shakes Seattle to its core. The film takes place in several locations, most notably Seattle, where a young working couple (Zachary Levi, Olivia Wilde) must survive the earthquake while finding their 6-year-old son, who was with his kindergarten class on a trip to the Space Needle, which the earthquake renders dangerously close to collapsing. Lucy Liu plays the director of the tsunami warning center who has to get warning to places across the Pacific and whose family lives in a village on the Washington coast. Chris Jericho plays a surfer in Vancouver who is trapped in a seaside hotel inundated by floodwaters. Kerry Washington plays a doctor at a Seattle hospital, Kevin Spacey plays the mayor of Seattle, Kate Hudson plays a cancer patient trapped in a flooding hospital in northern Oregon while Mark Wahlberg plays her husband. Stories of survival play out as the horrific day goes on, the film concludes with a massive 8.1 aftershock that immediately threatens the lives of several of the main characters. Chris Jericho's character dies saving a young surfer woman (Kristin Fairlie) from a balcony collapse caused by a second tsunami.

Date: Friday, May 13

Theaters: 3,558

Budget: $140 million

Cries In The Night

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keira Knightley, Robert Pattinson, Terry O'Quinn

Plot: Keira Knightley plays an Interpol agent named Natasha who is investigating the sex trafficking of children in Asia. She is currently investigating rumors of a massive deal, tens of millions of dollars for a hundred young girls, that is to take place in a few days. Her partner (Robert Pattinson) has some shady underworld connections that get the two of them closer to the culprits, and the agents find out that the deal is being set up by a mysterious and dangerous international criminal (Terry O'Quinn). The investigation takes the agents all over Asia, until Natasha discovers that her partner is actually the mastermind behind the deal and he even arranged to have one of the girls delivered to his home as a sex slave. The final scenes of the film involve Natasha's confrontation with her former partner to rescue the last girl.

Date: July 8

Rating: R for violence, language, disturbing images

Theater: 2,634

Budget: $42 million

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Mr. Belvedere

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alfred Molina, Brendan Fraser, Kyra Sedgwick, Bradley Steven Perry, Sierra McCormick

Plot: In this adaptation of the 80s TV show, Alfred Molina plays Lynn Belvedere, a posh British butler who comes to America and shacks up with a middle-class family. The family is reluctant to take in Mr. Belvedere at first, but over the course of the film, the butler and the family bond and are soon inseparable. The film's climax occurs as the family tries to protect Mr. Belvedere from immigration, while Mr. Belvedere helps the family's youngest son (Bradley Steven Perry) deal with a vicious bully. The film ends happily, of course, as the family fully accepts Mr. Belvedere and they start a new life together as a happy family.

Date: Friday, August 5

Rating: PG for mild language

Theaters: 2,819

Budget: $36 million

Defensive

Genre: Comedy/Romance

Cast: Adam Sandler, Piper Perabo, Steve Buscemi, Christine Taylor, Joe Mantegna

Plot: Beth Anderson (Piper Perabo) is a tough-talking pundit who hosts a true-crime talk show on TV. She's in favor of tough sentences for criminals, even those accused of minor crimes, and she's especially hard on criminal celebrities and defense laywers. However, when she is accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of jewelry from a fancy jewelry store, she suddenly needs a defense lawyer in the worst way! Enter Jeremy Roth (Adam Sandler), a sleazy defense lawyer who specializes in getting celebrities off for crimes (there's a joke in there at one point: "Did you hear Lindsay Lohan once killed a guy and burned down his house?" "Uh... no?" "I know, that's because I got her off!") The jewelry store owner (Steve Buscemi) is determined to see Beth locked up, and there's a tough prosecutor (Christine Taylor), who, coincidentally, Jeremy's been trying to hook up with for months. A strange love triangle between Jeremy, Beth, and the prosecutor results that could compromise the case and leave Beth locked up for a long time! Joe Mantegna plays the judge who is constantly fed up with Roth's courtroom antics.

Date: Friday, August 26

Rating: PG-13 for language, crude dialogue

Theaters: 3,244

Budget: $50 million

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Mac the KnifeMusic/ComedyCast: Chris RockPlot: Based off the classic Bobby Darin song, Chris Rock plays "Mac the Knife". Or that is his nickname. He goes on some comic adventures full of Bobby Darin songs in the movie. Where he has to stop the evil king Loro from invading a nearbye country. So now its up to Mac the Knife to save the day.Rated PG-13 for some crude humor, suggestive content and language.September 30th2,779 theaters40M budget.Apes on the RunFamily ComedyCast: Abigail BreslinPlot: A 12 year old girl named Molly (Breslin) whose father is a zookeeper brings home a pet ape. Her dad says that she can keep it and have it come to the zoo if she wants. So now she does and then the apes go on a adventure with her in a comical way.Rated PG for some thematic elements.December 16th2,345 theaters.19M budget.

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Flight of FearThrillerCast: Jodie FosterPlot: April Jones (Foster) is scared of flying. But after she has to go fly across country and has no other choice she takes the plane. Soon though disaster happens on the plane as it is going through some very rugged turbulance. And she is scared to death now. As the movie goes on she is worried about death. And the cabin pressure does go out as well. But in the end she makes it safely.Rated R for strong language, disturbing images and thematic elements.August 19th2,560 theaters.50M budget.Jane love KarenDrama/ThrillerCast: Ashely Tisdale, Felicity JonesPlot: Jane (Tisdale) is a lesbian who has a straight roomate named Karen (Jones). Jane falls in love with Karen, even though Karen constantly tells her she is straight. Throughout the movie Jane is always trying to ask out Karen but fails at it. Soon she goes crazy and tries to always stop any guy that comes near her. Karen tells her to buzz off and then suddendly in a twist we find out Jane is in fact straight and Karen is a lesbian.Rated R for strong language, strong violence, drug use, sexual images, nudity and disturbing images.June 17th2,204 theaters.10M budget.Number 61ThrillerCast: Gerard ButlerPlot: Harold (Butler) is a conspiracy theorist. He has an obession with the number 61. As he believes it means something that will destory the world. Now Harold is trying to find a way to solve the riddle behind the number 61. Throughout the movie he does crazy stuff. In the end he dies as he kills himself about this.Rated R for strong and graphic violence, brutal images, strong language and brief nudity.October 14th2,579 theaters.30M budget.

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Santa Baby

Genre: Comedy/Romance

Cast: Anna Faris, Bradley Cooper, John Goodman, Jean Smart

Plot: Based on the classic Christmas song "Santa Baby". Maddie Ray (Anna Faris) is the world's most popular, sexiest actress, but after blowing a ton of money on various frivolous things, she's in desperate need of some financial help, so she starts doing some publicity stunts implying that she'll do anything for Santa in exchange for some expensive stuff for Christmas. Her ex-boyfriend, another actor named Mitchell Stone (Bradley Cooper), still cares about her and is worried about Maddie's increasingly erratic behavior, trying to offer her some help in exchange for giving their relationship another go. Meanwhile, at the North Pole, Santa (John Goodman), doesn't know what to think, especially since he's happily married to Mrs. Claus (Jean Smart) and wants nothing to do with Maddie's advances. However, he is determined to teach her a lesson, so with Bradley's help, Santa decides to teach Maddie that Christmas means more than money and fancy gifts.

Date: Friday, November 4

Rating: PG for language and some flirtatious dialogue

Theaters: 3,100

Budget: $60 million

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The Penny Jar

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Chloe Moretz, James Cromwell, Liam Neeson, Martin Short, Eva Green, Natalie Portman

Plot: A girl named Kristen (Chloe Moretz) lives with her grandfather (James Cromwell) after the deaths of her parents when she was very young. Her grandfather has a massive penny jar he keeps in his garage, it's full of pennies and he says he's going to pass it on to Kristen someday. Each of the pennies, he says, has a story. One day when Kristen is taking a nap, some burglars can be heard breaking in and trying to haul out the penny jar. Kristen pursues them but ends up tripping and falling down a well, the well has a tunnel at the bottom that leads Kristen to a mysterious forest. She tries to return the way she came so she can track down the burglars, but she can't get back. She is met by a hunter (Liam Neeson) who takes her to a village, where her adventure begins. She learns out that everyone in this world knows her grandfather and that each of them at one point contributed to the penny jar. It seems that the burglars were stealing the penny jar to give to a dark wizard (Martin Short) who says that a piece of everyone's soul is imprinted on the pennies and that if he controls the jar he'll control the world. Before he can extract the souls, he is stopped by Kristen. The wizard tries to cast a spell on her but he is stopped by a woman with a whip (Eva Green), the woman turns out to be the captain of the guard and the collector of the pennies, the one tasked with returning them to their owner. Eventually, Kristen's grandfather comes to the mysterious land in pursuit of Kristen, the two reunite and also meet a beautiful princess (Natalie Portman) who is set to become queen soon, but first the wizard must be dealt with. Eventually the wizard is defeated, the princess is crowned queen, the pennies are returned, and Kristen and her grandfather return home.

Date: Friday, May 27

Rating: PG for some scary scenes and action violence

Theaters: 3,317

Budget: $80 million

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