A structural engineer (Anthony Hopkins) and an ambitious young district attorney (Ryan Gosling) become locked in a deadly battle of wits when the former is found innocent in the attempted murder of his wife in director Gregory Hoblit’s tense tale of courtroom mind games. Ted Crawford (Hopkins) is an engineer who lives with his wife Jennifer (Embeth Davidtz) in the couple’s lavish Southern California home. One day, after carefully planning out the details to ensure that there is no way he can be convicted of murder, Ted shoots his wife in a blatant attempt to murder the woman. When head hostage negotiator Rob Nunnaly (Billy Burke) arrives on the scene to speak with Ted, he is shocked to find that the victim of the shooting is in fact his longtime lover. Though Jennifer survives the trauma of being shot in the head at close range, she hovers comatose between life and death as star prosecutor Willy Beachum (Gosling) reluctantly accepts the case while preparing to leave the Los Angeles criminal court system behind for a more promising career at a posh private law firm. Though the D.A. (David Strathairn) vehemently resents Beachum’s lofty plan for departure, the hotshot young lawyer remains convinced that he can expedite the apparently open-and-shut case and be on his way to greener pastures in one week’s time at the very most. Beachum’s swelling ego betrays him, however, as his future boss Nikki Gardner (Rosamund Pike) begins to turn up the heat and fracture mechanics specialist Ted chooses to represent himself at the trial knowing well that a career spent spotting structural flaws in aeronautical systems has instilled him with just the kind of argumentative skills needed to riddle the swaggering young lawyer’s “foolproof” case with doubt.
Cast:
* Anthony Hopkins - Ted Crawford
* David Strathairn - Joe Lobruto
* Embeth Davidtz - Jennifer Crawford
* Cliff Curtis - Detective Flores
* Bob Gunton - Judge Gardner
* Judith Scott - Resident
* Zoe Kazan - Mona
Mark S. Waters’s adaptation of the popular fantasy novels The Spiderwick Chronicles tells the tale of the Graces, a family who must adapt to their new strange surroundings. As the story begins, twin brothers Jared and Simon, along with their sister Mallory and their mother, move away from the big city to a mansion owned by their uncle. When a series of strange happenings suggest that Jared may be causing a number of disturbances, the siblings band together to figure out what is going on. Soon they discover the magical history of the property.
Complete Cast:
* Freddie Highmore - Jared/Simon
* Nick Nolte - Mulgrath
* Andrew McCarthy - Richard
* David Strathairn - Arthur Spiderwick
* Martin Short - Thimbletack
* Mary-Louise Parker - Helen
* Sarah Bolger - Mallory
* Joan Plowright - Aunt Lucinda
* Seth Rogen - Hogsqueal
* Izabella Miko
Devastated upon receiving the news that her husband has been killed in a tragic car accident, a woman wakes up to find him still very much alive as she begins to slip into a confusing world where the past and the future become increasingly difficult to distinguish. Linda Hanson (Sandra Bullock) was an average housewife with a loving family, but when a policeman comes knocking on her door with news that her husband, Jim (Julian McMahon), was involved in a fatal car accident, Linda’s world slowly begins to unravel. While her grief is at first overwhelming, Linda assumes that the whole thing was nothing more than a vivid dream when she wakes to find her family still very much intact. With each passing day, however, Linda’s reality shifts and her circumstances grow increasingly surreal; one day Jim is dead and the next he is right there by her side. As her investigation leaves her convinced that her husband’s death wasn’t a dream and that her picture-perfect life may not have been quite as flawless as she thought, Linda embarks on a mind-bending journey to prevent her grim premonition from becoming a reality. Now, in order to save the man she loves, Linda will have to piece together a perplexing mystery that seems to span two separate planes of reality.
Complete Cast:
* Sandra Bullock - Linda Hanson
* Nia Long - Annie
* Amber Valletta - Claire
* Shyann McClure - Megan Hanson
* Marc Macaulay - Sheriff Reilly
* Phillip DeVona - Funeral Attendant
* Matt Moore - Young Priest
* Kristin Ketterer - Receptionist
* Jason Douglas - Emergency Room Doctor
* Floriana Tullio - Nurse
* E.J. Stapleton - Model Home Salesman
* Julian McMahon - Jim Hanson
* Kate Nelligan - Joanne
* Peter Stormare - Dr. Norman Roth
* Courtney Taylor Burness - Bridgette Hanson
* Irene Ziegler - Mrs. Quinn
* Ritchie Montgomery - Funeral Attendant
* Laurel Whitsett - School Aide
* Marcus Brown - Bob
* Dave Shaffer - Doctor’s Assistant
* Mark Famiglietti - Doug Caruthers
* Jude Ciccolella - Father Kennedy
A top Marine sniper who previously abandoned the military after a routine mission gave way to tragedy is double-crossed by the government after reluctantly being pressured back into service in Training Day director Antoine Fuqua’s adaptation of Stephen Hunter’s novel Point of Impact.
