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Redford, Streep and Cruise in Lions for Lambs
Robert Redford directs and acts in the movie Lions for Lambs. The film is based on a platoon of soldiers stationed in Afghanistan, a senator, a reporter, and a college professor. It stars Tom Cruise who plays the role of a congressman who has dealings with a journalist played by Streep. Meanwhile, Redford plays the role of an ambitious professor, eager to inspire his students.
Lions for Lambs goes on general release in the US on November 9, 2007.
Sneak peek : P S: I Love You
The new Hilary Swank-Gerard Butler romantic drama, P.S. I Love You is set to arrive in cinemas this holiday season, and we've got a sneak peek!
Holly Kennedy (Swank) is beautiful, smart, and married to the love of her life: a passionate, funny and impetuous Irishman named Gerry (Butler).
So when Gerry's life is taken by an illness, it takes the life out of Holly. The only one who can help her is the person who is no longer there.
Nobody knows Holly better than Gerry - so it's a good thing he planned ahead.
Before he died, Gerry wrote Holly a series of letters that will guide her, not only through her grief, but in rediscovering herself.
The first message arrives on Holly's 30th birthday in the form of a cake and, to her utter shock, a tape recording from Gerry, who proceeds to order her to get out and "celebrate herself."
In the weeks and months that follow, more letters from Gerry are delivered in surprising ways, each sending her on a new adventure and each signing off in the same way: P.S. I Love You.
Holly's mother (Kathy Bates) and best friends, Sharon (Gina Gershon) and Denise (Lisa Kudrow), begin to worry that Gerry's letters are keeping Holly tied to the past, but, in fact, each letter is pushing her further into a new future.
With Gerry's words as her guide, Holly embarks on a touching, exciting and often hilarious journey of rediscovery in a story about marriage, friendship and how a love so strong can turn the finality of death into new beginning for life.
The movie arrives in cinemas December 21.
Rocket Science
Set in New Jersey, Rocket Science follows Hal Hefner (Reece Daniel Thompson) in his attempts to go through high school unnoticed, however his considerable stutter and his inability to verbalise his thoughts and feelings do him no favours.
To make matters worse Hefner has a strange and abusive older brother Earl (Vincent Piazza), recently-divorced parents, his mother has a live-in boyfriend, and his school has an inadequate speech therapist. Writer Jeffrey Blitz said Reece Daniel Thompson was beginning to get quite good at learning how to stutter.
"I know how stuttering works, so I know there is no way he is going to pick up a stutter, no matter how good he gets at it, but his parents were worried because he got great at stuttering. It was a very intuitive thing for him and it would carry over into lunch time," Blitz said.
When the school's bossy, attractive debate champion Ginny Ryerson (Anna Kendrick) tries to recruit Hal as her debating partner, good sense tells him no but his hormones cry yes, and soon Hal finds himself confronted with growing feelings for Ginny as well as the looming humiliation of having to compete in the state finals.
The film boasts a relatively unknown cast and follows familiar territory of adolescent angst and the awkwardness of high school. But writer Jeffrey Blitz said the film "doesn't follow the formula that you think," and promises the script holds its fair share of surprises. Rocket Science is released in the UK on September 28.
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