At the movies

Friday, November 17, 2006 |
The following movies are playing at South Coast theaters:
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan - Borat Sagdiyev (Sacha Baron Cohen), Kazakhstan's sixth-most famous man and a leading journalist from the state-run TV network, travels from his home in Kazakhstan to the U.S. to make a documentary. On his cross-country road-trip, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences. (R for pervasive strong crude and sexual content including graphic nudity, and language.) Pony Village Cinemas.
Casino Royale - James Bond's (Daniel Craig) first 007 mission takes him to Madagascar, where he is to spy on a terrorist Mollaka. Following a lead to the Bahamas, he encounters Dimitrios (Simon Abkarian) and his girlfriend, Solange (Caterina Murino). He learns that Dimitrios is involved with Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), banker to the world's terrorist organizations. Secret Service intelligence reveals that Le Chiffre is planning to raise money in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro at Le Casino Royale. MI6 assigns 007 to play against him. “M” (Judi Dench) places Bond under the watchful eye of the beguiling Vesper Lynd (Eva Green). Bond's interest in her deepens as they brave danger together - and even torture at the hands of Le Chiffre. The marathon game proceeds with dirty tricks and violence, raising the stakes beyond blood money and reaching a terrifying climax. (PG-13 for intense sequences of violent action, a scene of torture, sexual content and nudity.) Florence Cinemas, Pony Village Cinemas.
The Departed - In South Boston, the state police force is waging war on organized crime. Young undercover cop Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate run by gangland chief Costello (Jack Nicholson). While Billy is quickly gaining Costello's confidence, Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon), a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the police department as an informer for the syndicate, is rising to a position of power in the Special Investigation Unit. When it becomes clear to both the gangsters (Ray Winstone) and the police (Alec Baldwin, Martin Sheen, Mark Wahlberg) that there's a mole in their midst, Billy and Colin are suddenly in danger of being caught and exposed to the enemy. (R for strong brutal violence, pervasive language, some strong sexual content and drug material.) Pony Village Cinemas.
Flags of Our Fathers - In February 1945, even as victory in Europe was finally within reach, the war in the Pacific raged on. One of the most crucial and bloodiest battles of the war was the struggle for the island of Iwo Jima, which culminated with what would become one of the most iconic images in history: five Marines and a Navy corpsman raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi. Based on the bestselling book by James Bradley with Ron Powers, the film chronicles the battle of Iwo Jima and the fates of the flag raisers and some of their brothers (Ryan Phillippe, Adam Beach, Jesse Bradford, Jamie Bell, Ben Walker and Paul Walker) in Easy Company. (R for sequences of graphic war violence and carnage, and for language.) Florence Cinemas, Pony Village Cinemas.
Flushed Away - Beneath the streets of London, Roddy St. James (voice of Hugh Jackman) is a pampered pet mouse who thinks he's got it made. A plan to get rid of a sewer rat backfires when Roddy inadvertently winds up being the one flushed away into the bustling world down below. Underground, Roddy discovers a vast metropolis, where he meets Rita (Kate Winslet), a streetwise rat. The pair will need to escape the clutches of the villainous Toad (Ian McKellen), who royally despises all rodents and has dispatched two hapless henchrats, Spike (Andy Serkis) and Whitey (Bill Nighy), as well as his cousin - that dreaded mercenary, Le Frog (Jean Reno) - to see that Roddy and Rita are iced, literally. (PG for crude humor and some language.) Florence Cinemas, Pony Village Cinemas.
A Good Year - London-based investment expert Max Skinner (Russell Crowe) travels to Provence to tend a small vineyard he inherited from his late uncle (Albert Finney). When he gets suspended from his job under suspicion of fraud, he settles in to life at the chateau, remembering the time he spent there as a child. Then a determined young California girl (Abbie Cornish) arrives claiming to be the illegitimate daughter of the deceased uncle and rightful owner of the vineyard. (PG-13 for language and some sexual content.) Pony Village Cinemas.
Happy Feet - In the great nation of Emperor Penguins, deep in Antarctica, you're nobody unless you can sing - which is unfortunate for Mumble (voice of Elijah Wood), who is the worst singer in the world. He is born dancing to his own tune - tap dancing. Though Mumble's mom, Norma Jean (Nicole Kidman), thinks this little habit is cute, his dad, Memphis (Hugh Jackman), says it “just ain't penguin.” Besides, they both know that, without a Heartsong, Mumble may never find true love. As fate would have it, his one friend, Gloria (Brittany Murphy, happens to be the best singer around. Mumble is just too different - especially for Noah the Elder (Hugo Weaving), the stern leader of Emperor Land, who ultimately casts him out of the community. Away from home for the first time, Mumble meets a posse of decidedly un-Emperor-like penguins - the Adelie Amigos. Led by Ramon (Robin Williams), the Adelies instantly embrace Mumble's cool dance moves and invite him to party with them. (PG for some mild peril and rude humor.) Florence Cinemas, Pony Village Cinemas, Redwood Theater.
Let's Go to Prison - Felon John Lyshitski (Dax Shepard) has figured out the best way to get revenge on the now-dead judge who sent him to jail: watch the official's obnoxious son, Nelson Biederman IV (Will Arnett), survive the clink. John strikes gold when Nelson is wrongly convicted of a crime and sent to the pen he used to call home. He gleefully gets sent back to become Nelson's cellmate and to ensure that his new buddy gets the “full treatment.” Right away, Nelson offends the wrong cons and is sold - by John - to Barry (Chi McBride) for prison snuggling. But just as revenge starts tasting sweet, Nelson becomes Big Man in the Big House and turns the tables on John - changing the rules of his insane game. (R for language, sexual content, some violence and drug material.) Pony Village Cinemas.
Open Season - A 900-pound domesticated grizzly bear named Boog (Martin Lawrence) and a scrawny, one-horned mule deer named Elliot (Ashton Kutcher) end up stranded together in the woods during hunting season and it's up to the duo to rally all the other forest animals and turn the tables on the hunters. (PG for some rude humor, mild action and brief lanuage.) Pony Village Cinemas.
The Return - Joanna Mills (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is a tough young Midwesterner determined to learn the truth behind the increasingly terrifying supernatural visions that have been haunting her. Estranged from her father (Sam Shepard), stalked by an obsessed ex-boyfriend (Adam Scott), and with few friends in her life, Joanna fears that she is losing control. She sees and feels the brutal murder of a young woman (Kate Beahan) she's never met, at the hands of a heartless killer (Peter O'Brien) - a man who appears to be making Joanna his next target. Determined to fight back, Joanna is guided by her nightmares to the murdered woman's hometown. (PG-13 for violence, terror and disturbing images.) Pony Village Cinemas.
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause - It's Christmas time once again and Scott Calvin (Tim Allen) juggles a full house of family and the mischievous Jack Frost (Martin Short), who is trying to take over the “big guy's” holiday. At the risk of giving away the secret location of the North Pole, Scott invites his in-laws (Alan Arkin, Ann-Margret) to share in the holiday festivities, and upcoming birth of baby Claus with expectant wife, Carol (Elizabeth Mitchell). Along for the adventure are Scott's extended family, son Charlie (Eric Lloyd), ex-wife Laura Miller (Wendy Crewson), her husband, Neil Miller (Judge Reinhold) and their daughter, Lucy (Liliana Mumy) who, together with head elf Curtis (Spencer Breslin), foil Jack Frost's crafty scheme to control the North Pole. (G) Florence Cinemas, Pony Village Cinemas, Redwood Theater.
Saw III - Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) has disappeared; and with his new apprentice Amanda (Shawnee Smith) - the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police - he has once again eluded capture and vanished. One night, after finishing a shift at her hospital, Dr. Lynn Denlon (Bahar Soomekh) is kidnapped and taken to an abandoned warehouse where she meets Jigsaw, bedridden and on the verge of death. She is told that she must keep the madman alive for as long as it takes another one of his victims, Jeff (Angus MacFadyen), to complete a game of his own. (R for strong grisly violence and gore, sequences of terror and torture, nudity and language.) Pony Village Cinemas.
Stranger Than Fiction - One morning, a seemingly average and generally solitary IRS agent named Harold Crick (Will Ferrell) begins to hear a female voice narrating his every action, thought and feeling in alarmingly precise detail. When the voice declares that Harold Crick is facing imminent death, he realizes he must find out who is writing his story and persuade her to change the ending. The voice in Harold's head turns out to be the once celebrated, but now nearly forgotten, novelist Karen “Kay” Eiffel (Emma Thompson), who is struggling to find an ending for what might be her best book. Her only remaining challenge is to figure out a way to kill her main character, but little does she know that Harold is alive and well and inexplicably aware of her words and her plans for him. Desperate to take control of his destiny and avoid an untimely demise, Harold seeks help from a literary theorist named Jules Hilbert (Dustin Hoffman), who suggests that Harold might be able to change his fate by turning his story from a tragedy into a comedy. His suggestion leads Harold to initiate an unlikely romance with a free-spirited baker named Ana Pascal (Maggie Gyllenhaal). (PG-13 for some disturbing images, sexuality, brief language and nudity.) Pony Village Cinemas.
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