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september
Devil’s hellish problem is that one of these five people is Satan
Devil
Five strangers are trapped
inside a broken elevator. The
situation gets a wee bit more
intense when we realize one
of them is the devil. M. Night
Shyamalan wrote the story.
Krach
A Wall Street trader (Gilles
Lellouche) discovers he can
predict gains in the stock
market using weather patterns.
Krach’s Gilles Lellouche
16 FAMOUS SEPTEMBER 2010
Jack Goes Boating
Philip Seymour Hoffman makes
his directorial debut with this
dramedy (originally produced as
a stage play) about the lives of
two couples. Jack (Hoffman)
and Connie (Amy Ryan) are just
beginning their fragile dating
dance, while their married pals
Clyde (John Ortiz) and Lucy
(Daphne Rubin-Vega) realize
their relationship is slowly
dissolving.
Catfish
This unconventional
documentary focuses on
New York City photographer
Yaniv Schulman, who begins
an online relationship with
eight-year-old Abby, a girl from
Michigan who’s painted a picture
based on one of his photos. Their
cyber friendship takes a strange
turn when Yaniv starts dating
Abby’s older sister, Megan.
Easy A
Hoping to enhance her
social standing, virgin Oilve
Penderghast (Emma Stone)
pretends to sleep with closeted
gay teen Brandon (Dan Byrd).
Her suddenly sluttish reputation
means boys are swarming all
over her, morally righteous
students hate her, and her
parents (Patricia Clarkson and
Stanley Tucci) are worried. But
Olive takes the ruse one step
further when she wears the
letter A — just like the adulteress
in the classic book The Scarlet
Letter — to school, thumbing her
nose at all who judge her. See
Emma Stone interview, page 24.
The Town
Gone Baby Gone showed
Ben Affleck could direct,
and three years later he’s
back at it with this Boston-set
thriller about a thief (Affleck)
who starts dating the bank
manager (Rebecca Hall) he
took hostage a few day earlier.
As he was masked, she doesn’t
know her new beau is the
same man who terrorized her,
but an FBI agent (Jon Hamm)
is more than capable of
putting the pieces together.
Alpha and Omega
This 3D animated flick finds
two wolves — pack leader
Kate (Hayden Panettiere)
and slacker Humphrey
(Justin Long) — taken from
their home in Alberta to Idaho,
where they’re expected to help
repopulate the area’s dwindling
wolf community. That
unappealing prospect is all the
motivation these mismatched
animals need to make the
long journey home — strictly
as platonic pals.
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