Opening 9/12/08

For show times select your theatre under the SHOWIMES AT: header in the left column. Weekend times normally start appearing on Wednesday.

BURN AFTER READING [R] 1 hr. 35 min. Dark comedy Trailer Cast: George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Richard Jenkins, Brad Pitt. Plot: an ousted CIA official's memoir accidentally falls into the hands of two unwise gym employees intent on exploiting their find. Showing at: Movie Machine, Northrock 14, 13th Avenue Warren, Warren Old Town, 21st Street Warren.

RIGHTEOUS KILL [R] 1 hr. 40 min. Action/Thriller/Drama Trailer Cast: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, 50 Cent, Donnie Wahlberg, Carla Gugino. Plot: a pair of veteran New York City police detectives are on the trail of a vigilante serial killer who targets criminals that have fallen through the cracks of the judicial system. His mission is to do what the cops can't do on their own--take the culprits off the streets for good. The similarities between the recent killings and an earlier case raise a nagging question: Did they put the wrong man behind bars? Showing at: Derby Plaza, Movie Machine, Northrock 14, 13th Avenue Warren, Warren Old Town, 21st Street Warren.

THE WOMEN [PG-13] 1 hr. 55 min. Comedy Trailer Cast: Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Jada Pinkett Smith, Debra Messing, Candice Bergen, Bette Midler, Cloris Leachman, Carrie Fisher, Lynn Whitfield, Joanna Gleason, Ana Gasteyer, Debi Mazar. Plot: the story of a clothing designer who seems to have it all – a beautiful country home, a rich financier husband, an adorable 11-year-old daughter and a part-time career creating designs for her father's venerable clothing company. Her best friend leads another enviable life – a happily single editor of a prominent fashion magazine, a possessor of a huge closet of designer clothes and a revered arbiter of taste and style poised on New York's cutting edge. When the designer's husband enters into an affair with a sultry 'spritzer girl' lurking behind the Saks Fifth Avenue perfume counter, the two women's relationship is tested to the breaking point while their tight-knit circle of friends all start to question their own friendships and romantic relationships as well. Showing at: Derby Plaza, Movie Machine, Northrock 14, 13th Avenue Warren, Warren Old Town, 21st Street Warren.

TYLER PERRY'S FAMILY THAT PREYS [PG-13] Family comedy/drama Trailer Cast: Kathy Bates, Alfre Woodard, Tyler Perry, Cole Hauser, Sanaa Lathan, Rockmond Dunbar, Taraji P. Henson, Kadee Strickland, Sebastian Siegel. Plot: the matriarchs of two very different families —one upper-crust and the other working class—become inextricably linked by scandal. Showing at: Northrock 14, 13th Avenue Warren, 21st Street Warren.