What's Playing 11/26/08

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It’s holiday time everyone and due to Thanksgiving on Thursday and Black Friday (perhaps the biggest holiday every year) coming up right after; all the releases are going to be on Wednesday. Another slow week though before the holiday run comes with a vengeance. Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman explore Australia in the World War II era for those looking for a dramatic way to spend the time. If you want a little humor, then you can either go by your relatives or watch the experience on the big screen in Four Christmases. Enjoy the movies folks and get some sleep on Turkey Day so you can get in line early for the best deals.

Wide Release

Australia – Starring Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, James Hong, and more. Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drives 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.

Four Christmases – Starring Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Duvall, Jon Favreau, and many more. Brad and Kate aren’t quite looking to the holidays nearly as much as everyone else is. Their Christmas isn’t so simple as they try to make it happy for their parents…their divorced parents…who are in four separate locations.

Transporter 3 – Starring Jason Statham and more. Frank Martin puts the driving gloves on for a third mission: To deliver Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of a Ukrainian government official, from Marseilles to Odessa on the Black Sea. En route, he’ll have to contend with thugs who want to intercept Valentina’s safe delivery and not let his personal feelings get in the way of his dangerous objective.

Limited Release

Oye Lucky, Lucky Oye – Witness a modern day Robin Hood in this comedy caper based on a thief who tries to steal a life for himself.

Milk – Starring Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, and more. After moving to San Francisco, middle-aged New Yorker Harvey Milk became a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt in 1977, he was elected to San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors making him the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the United States. It would be a wild ride for Harvey Milk who experience support and ridicule from all over.