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College Road Trip
Theatrical Release Date: 03/07/2008
Synopsis: A high-school student (Raven Symone) with noble dreams of becoming a public defender sets out to visit potential universities in the unwanted company of her father (Martin Lawrence) -- an overprotective cop -- in this road trip comedy produced by Andrew Gunn and directed by Roger Kumble. Melanie (Symone) is about to graduate high school, and she's ready to take her first step toward adulthood by hitting the road to explore her college prospects with a few close female friends. But despite the fact that this trip is strictly "girls only," Melanie's father isn't comfortable with the prospect of his little princess hitting the road without an adult chaperone -- and what better guardian to have while you're out on the open road than the chief of police himself? Of course, while Melanie's father only has the best of intentions, his presence on a trip that was designed to mark his little girl's emergence as a young adult leads to an endless series of comic complications. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide [Source: Movies.aol.com]
The Bank Job
Theatrical Release Date: 03/07/2008
Synopsis: Inspired by the infamous 1971 robbery that took place at the Lloyds Bank in Marylebone London, Lionsgate's ® 'The Bank Job' stars Jason Statham ('Transporter,' 'Snatch,' 'Crank,' 'The Italian Job') and Saffron Burrows ('Klimt,' 'Enigma'). The highly-charged heist thriller tautly interweaves high-level corruption, murder and sexual scandal in 1970s England.
A car dealer with a dodgy past and new family, Terry (Statham) has always avoided major-league scams. But when Martine (Burrows), a beautiful model from his old neighborhood, offers him a lead on a foolproof bank hit on London's Baker Street, Terry recognizes the opportunity of a lifetime. Martine targets a roomful of safe deposit boxes worth millions in cash and jewelry. But Terry and his crew don't realize the boxes also contain a treasure trove of dirty secrets - secrets that will thrust them into a deadly web of corruption and illicit scandal that spans London's criminal underworld, the highest echelons of the British government, and the Royal Family itself...the true story of a heist gone wrong...in all the right ways. [Source: Movies.aol.com]
Horton Hears A Who!
Theatrical Release Date: 03/14/2008
Synopsis: A new CG animated feature film from 20th Century Fox Animation, the makers of the 'Ice Age' films, based on the beloved book, first published in 1954, by Ted Geisel, who wrote under the pen name Dr. Seuss. Seuss books are among the defining works of family literature, have sold over 200 million copies, and have been translated into fifteen languages. The 'Horton' series ('Horton Hears a Who,' 'Horton Hatches the Egg') are consistently among the top-selling of all Seuss titles generation after generation. 'Horton Hears a Who' is about an imaginative elephant who hears a cry for help coming from a tiny speck of dust floating through the air. Suspecting there may be life on that speck and despite a surrounding community which thinks he has lost his mind, Horton is determined to help. [Source: Movies.aol.com]
Doomsday
Theatrical Release Date: 03/14/2008
Synopsis: In the action-packed new thriller from writer/director Neil Marshall ('The Descent'), authorities brutally quarantine a country as it succumbs to fear and chaos when a virus strikes. The literal walling-off works for three decades - until the dreaded Reaper virus violently resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists, captained by Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra), is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare. [Source: Movies.aol.com]
Drillbit Taylor
Theatrical Release Date: 03/21/2008
Synopsis: Ryan, Wade and Emmit attend their first day at high school and they're pumped
until they meet up with Filkins, a school bully who comes off like a little Hannibal Lecter. Before they become completely engulfed in Filkins' reign of terror, they seek out some protection by placing an ad in Soldier of Fortune magazine. Their best response and the cheapest - comes from Drillbit Taylor (Owen Wilson), a down-on-his luck soldier of fortune who lives a homeless - he likes to say "home free" existence on the beach. He enrolls them in some physical and mental training. [Source: Movies.aol.com]
Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns
Theatrical Release Date: 03/21/2008
Synopsis: A funny, moving romantic drama about the power of love and family, Lionsgate's 'Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns' marks another winning portrayal of life by writer/director/actor Tyler Perry ('Diary of a Mad Black Woman,' 'Madea's Family Reunion') and features a return to the big screen by Madea, the indomitable, law-breaking, fun-loving grandma.
A single mother living in inner city Chicago, Brenda has been struggling for years to make ends meet and keep her three kids off the street. But when she's laid off with no warning, she starts losing hope for the first time -- until a letter arrives announcing the death of a father she's never met. Desperate for any kind of help, Brenda takes her family to Georgia for the funeral. But nothing could have prepared her for the Browns, her father's fun-loving, crass Southern clan. In a small-town world full of long afternoons and country fairs, Brenda struggles to get to know the family she never knew existed
and finds a brand new romance that just might change her life. [Source: Movies.aol.com]