Dan's Papers - June 27, 2008 - Tiffany Razzano's Mini-Movie Reviews

A young man from southern India in the 1930s is torn between his hopes for the future and his loyalty to local tribal customs and traditions when it's discovered that his boss, a British spice grower living in India, is having an affair with a married woman from a local village.

The true story of the largest counterfeit ring in history. In 1936, Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch, an underworld counterfeiter, is thrown into a concentration camp, where he is handpicked by the Nazis to produce fake foreign currency in order to weaken the economy of Germany's enemies.

A remake of the classic '60s TV show Get Smart, starring Steve Carrell as the bumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart and Anne Hathaway as his partner and love interest.

Will Smith plays Hancock, an alcoholic superhero who's hated by the public. When he saves the life of a PR executive, Ray Embry (Jason Bateman), Ray starts a PR campaign to improve the public image of Hancock, who winds up having an affair with his wife (Charlize Theron).

Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel and John Leguizamo star in the latest thriller from M. Night Shyamalan. In order to escape the complete and bizarre breakdown in human behavior that is occurring all around them and resulting in death and destruction, a Philadelphia family flees to rural Pennsylvania. But they discover the crisis is inescapable.

Max Kohn (Otto Tausig), a writer approaching 80, refuses to let his age slow him down, as he continues to pursue both literary and romantic endeavors. However, as he often gets lost between fiction and reality, he risks the real relationship he has with Reisel (Rhea Perlman).

An American left at the gates of an ashram in India as a child, Maurice Pitka (Mike Myers) returns to America as a self-help guru seeking fame and fortune. He takes on the job of trying to reunite a star hockey player from the Toronto Maple Leafs and his estranged wife so that the team can win the Stanley Cup. Also starring Jessica Alba and Justin Timberlake.

Like all Americans at the time, nine-year-old Kit Kitteredge's (Abigail Breslin) parents (Chris O'Donnell, Julia Ormond) are hit hard by the Great Depression. While they rent rooms to a quirky group of tenants to make some extra money, Kitteredge solves a mystery that saves her parents' home.

This is the true story of the tragic murder of Barbara Daly (Julianne Moore) who married Brooks Baekleland, heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune. The film follows the dysfunctional family, particularly highlighting the incestuous relationship she had with her son, Antony, from the 1940s until her death in 1972.

A documentary about the non-violent means Estonia took to free itself from Soviet occupation.

Pixar is back with the story of Wall-E, the lonely, last robot on Earth, left on the planet after it was evacuated because it was covered in trash. When he's discovered by EVE, a search robot, she realizes Wall-E might have accidentally found the key to making Earth liveable again. When she rushes back to tell the humans, WALL-E goes on an adventure, following her across the galaxy.

A twenty-something slacker, Wesley Gibson discovers that his long-lost father, was an assassin and has been murdered. Wesley is then recruited by the secret organization his father worked for to follow in his footsteps. And with the help of a fellow assassin, Fox (Angelina Jolie), and the group's leader, Sloan (Morgan Freeman), he's able to transform his life.

This political satire is set in the future in the fictional country of Turaqistan, which has recently been taken over by a private corporation owned by a former vice president of the United States (Dan Aykroyd), who hires Brand Hauser (John Cusack), a hitman, to kill the CEO of a rival company. While Brand plans to use the wedding of a Middle Eastern superstar (Hilary Duff) as his cover, he unexpectedly falls in love with a reporter (Marisa Tomei) and considers turning his life around.