New Flicks

Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Something wicked this way hops.

Genre: Animation / Adventure / Family
Director: Steve Box and Nick Park
Distributor: DreamWorks Animation SKG
Starring: Peter Sallis, Helena Bonham-Carter, Ralph Fiennes, John Thomson, Peter Kay

Wallace and Gromit are cashing in with their humane pest-control outfit, "Anti-Pesto." With only days to go before the annual Giant Vegetable Competition, business is booming, but Wallace & Gromit are finding out that running a "humane" pest control outfit has its drawbacks as their West Wallaby Street home fills to the brim with captive rabbits. Suddenly, a huge, mysterious, veg-ravaging "beast" begins attacking the town's sacred vegetable plots at night, and the competition hostess, Lady Tottington, commissions Anti-Pesto to catch it and save the day. Lying in wait, however, is Lady Tottington's snobby suitor, Victor Quartermaine, who'd rather shoot the beast and secure the position of local hero - not to mention Lady Tottingon's hand in marriage. With the fate of the competition in the balance, Lady Tottington is eventually forced to allow Victor to hunt down the vegetable chomping marauder. Little does she know that Victor's real intent could have dire consequences for her...and Wallace & Gromit.

In Her Shoes

Friends. Rivals. Sisters.

Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Curtis Hanson
Distributor: 20th Century Fox Distribution
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, Shirley MacLaine, Mark Feuerstein, Brooke Smith

Two sisters have nothing in common but size 8 ½ feet. Maggie and Rose are both best friends and polar opposites when it comes to values, goals and personal styles. Maggie is a party girl who barely graduated from high school, recycles jobs as quickly as yesterday's newspapers and believes her biggest asset is her attractiveness to the opposite sex. Her recurring state of unemployment leaves her virtually homeless as she bounces between the sofas of her friends and relatives. Rose is a Princeton educated attorney at a top law firm in Philadelphia. Her beautifully decorated pre-war apartment is her haven from the outside world. With her nose perpetually to the grindstone, she struggles constantly with her weight and never feels comfortable in the clothes she wears. Her low self-esteem regarding her physical appearance has left her dating life non-existent. Through their re-connection with their grandmother, Ella, Maggie and Rose learn how to make peace with themselves and with each other.

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