Chicago
The film version of Bob Fosse’s celebrated Tony Award winning hit Broadway Musical. Set in 1929 Chicago, the film tells the story of the improbable rise and fall and rise of an ambitious chorus girl.
Director: Rob Marshall
Writer(s): Bill Condon
Cast: Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta Jone, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah, John C. Reilly, Christine Baranski
About a Boy
A comedy-drama about a rich, child-free and irresponsible Londoner in his thirties who, in search of available women, invents an imaginary son and starts attending single parent meetings. As a result of one of his liaisons, he meets Marcus, an odd 12-year-old boy with problems at school. Gradually, Will and Marcus become friends, and as Will teaches Marcus how to be a cool kid, Marcus helps Will to finally grow up.
Director: Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz
Writer(s): Peter Hedges
Cast: Hugh Grant, Toni Collette, Rachel Weisz, Nicholas Hoult
Angel Eyes
The film opens on an accident scene on a wet rainy night in Toronto. Sharon Pogue (Jennifer Lopez) is a police officer at the scene and she is holding the hand of one of the victims and pleading that he hold on, not to give up and help is on the way.
The film then switches to one year later, where Sharon is now a very bitter, angry person. The reason for her anger turns out to be because she is estranged from her family. Some time in her past she had her father Carl (Victor Argo) arrested for beating her mother Josephine (Sonia Braga). Her father and brother, Larry Sr. (Jeremy Sisto) have found it hard to forgive her and so she is more or less ostracized from her family.
Meanwhile, a man named Catch (Jim Caviezel) wanders the streets of Toronto in a Zombie-like trance, doing good deeds, trying to help anybody he meets. He turns car lights off, he tells a young woman in his apartment building that she left her keys in the door.
The Lazarus Child
A 12-year-old boy babysitting his younger sister, turns his back for a moment, during which she and a friend get hit by a bus crossing the street. Deep in a coma, the sister’s condition is dire and further frays the estranged parents relationship and plunges the brother into deep depression. The only hope is a radical form of treatment devised by an eccentric researcher. In the researcher’s treatment, a person enters the comatose person’s mind and tries to communicate with them and bring them back to consciousness. With time running out the guilt-racked brother volunteers for the job.