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Precious

Rating: R
Length: 109
Synopsis: Gabourey Sidibe plays a 16-year-old in 1987 Harlem, pregnant for the second time by an absent father, who must wait hand and foot on her abusive mother and who gets a chance at a way out when a teacher at an alternative school gives her the attention she desperately needs. With Mo’Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd, Lenny Kravitz; directed by Lee Daniels.

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Planet 51

Rating: PG
Length: 90
Synopsis: In this animated comedy, an American astronaut finds the planet he’s just landed on is inhabited, with the residents happily living in a little-green-people, white-picket-fence existence not unlike America in the 1950s. With voices of Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel, Gary Oldman, Seann William Scott, John Cleese; directed by Jorge Blanco.

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New York, I Love You

Rating: R
Length: 110
Synopsis: A collective work of 11 short films shot by renowned international directors including Jiang Wen, Mira Nair, Brett Ratner and Natalie Portman, in each of the Big Apple’s five boroughs, with a common interwoven theme of finding love. With Bradley Cooper, Andy Garcia, Hayden Christensen, Rachel Bilson, Portman.

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The Blind Side

Rating: PG-13
Length: 126
Synopsis: Sandra Bullock plays a well-to-do white woman who takes in a homeless black youngster (Quinton Aaron) from a broken home and helps him fulfill his potential on and off the football field. Based on a true story. With Tim McGraw, Kathy Bates, Jae Head; directed by John Lee Hancock.

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An Education

Rating: PG-13
Length: 99
Synopsis: In a London suburb in 1961, a bright schoolgirl is torn between studying for Oxford and the exciting alternative offered by a charismatic older man. With Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard; directed by Lone Scherfig.

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The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Rating: PG-13
Length: 130
Synopsis: The second installment of the Twilight series continues the romance between vampire Edward (Robert Pattinson) and mortal Bella (Kristen Stewart), whose childhood friend has a supernatural secret of his own. With Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene, Dakota Fanning; directed by Chris Weitz.

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Pirate Radio

Rating: R
Length: 116
Synopsis: Rogue disc jockeys in the 1960s drive the British government crazy by playing rock records in defiance of the law from a boat in the middle of the North Atlantic. With Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Kenneth Branagh; directed by Richard Curtis.

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2012

Rating: PG-13
Length: 158
Synopsis: Nostradamus and the Mayans, among others, predict the end of the world by the end of 2012; this movie posits a global cataclysm and a heroic struggle by the survivors. With John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover, Woody Harrelson; directed by Roland Emmerich.

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