What's Playing 01/30/09

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Stories of being in a new town, having your family taken from you, and a ghostly spirit taking over where they don’t belong. Films that provide a little something for everyone this weekend as the only people who will be there are those who don’t happen to like football. Which means I will NOT be there!

Wide Release

New In Town – Starring Renee Zellweger, J.K. Simmons, Harry Connick Jr. and more. A high-powered consultant in love with her upscale Miami lifestyle is sent to a middle of nowhere town in Minnesota to oversee the restructuring of a blue collar manufacturing plant. After enduring a frosty reception from the locals, icy roads and freezing weather, she warms up to the small town’s charm, and eventually finds herself being accepted by the community. When she’s ordered to close down the plant and put the entire community out of work, she’s forced to reconsider her goals and priorities, and finds a way to save the town.

Taken – Starring Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, and more. No matter if you’re retired, old, or just fed up; when your family is threatened, anything is possible. A former spy relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been forced into the slave trade.

The Uninvited – Starring Emily Browning, Arielle Kebbel, Elizabeth Banks, and more. Anna Rydell returns home to her sister (and best friend) Alex after a stint in a mental hospital. Her recovery is jeopardized though thanks to her cruel stepmother, aloof father, and the presence of a ghost in their home. This film is a remake of the Japanese hit A Tale Of Two Sisters.

Limited Release

Luck By Chance – A struggling actor comes from Delhi to Bombay and enters the Hindi film industry.

Medicine For Melancholy – A love story of bikes and one-night stands told through two African-American twenty-somethings dealing with the conundrum of being a minority in a rapidly gentrifying San Francisco.