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Chicken Little

Chicken Little. Movie Big.

Genres: Comedy / Animation
Director: Mark Dindal
Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
Starring: Zach Braff, Garry Marshall, Joan Cusack, Steve Zahn, Don Knotts
After Chicken Little causes widespread panic--when he mistakes a falling acorn for a piece of the sky--the young chicken is determined to restore his reputation. But just as things are starting to go his way, a real piece of the sky lands on his head. Chicken Little and his band of misfit friends, Abby Mallard (aka Ugly Duckling), Runt of the Litter and Fish Out of Water, attempt to save the world without sending the town into a whole new panic. Chicken Little eventually discovers that he needs to risk his newfound popularity and alert his father and the town. When Buck realises Chicken Little actually has it right this time, he unites with his son and his friends as they set out to save the world.

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A therapeutic new comedy.

Genres: Comedy / Romance
Director: Ben Younger
Distributor: Universal Pictures Distribution
Starring: Meryl Streep, Uma Thurman, Bryan Greenberg, Jon Abrahams, Jerry Adler
Rafi (Uma Thurman) is a recently divorced 37-year-old career woman from Manhattan and Dave is a talented 23-year-old painter from Brooklyn who falls in love with her. Part counselor, part Jewish mother, Rafi's therapist Lisa (Meryl Streep) is gingerly helping Rafi out of her post-divorce slump and through the urgent alarm of her ticking biological clock. Although doubtful that Rafi's new fling is an appropriate partner in the long term, Lisa encourages her patient to enjoy it and have fun. But once Lisa accidentally discovers that Rafi's new boyfriend is, in fact, her son, Dave, she finds it increasingly difficult to act the good therapist while hearing intimate details of her son's love life. Soon, the secret is out and cultures clash, complications arise, civil arguments erupt and a storm of opinions swirl around the couple at the centre of all this comic fuss.

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