211. Sita Sings the Blues
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nina Paley
Actors: Annette Hanshaw, Aseem Chhabra, Sanjiv Jhaveri, Pooja Kumar, Debargo Sanyal, Reena Shah
212. Savage Grace
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Tom Kalin
Actors: Julianne Moore, Stephen Dillane, Hugh Dancy, Eddie Redmayne, Unax Ugalde, Lina Lambert
213. Bedtime Stories
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Family
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Adam Shankman
Actors: Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Guy Pearce, Courteney Cox, Russell Brand, Richard Griffiths
Plot: A handyman helps out his sister by babysitting her son and daughter. He finds out that when he tells bedtimes stories, anything the two say magically comes true.
214. Brideshead Revisited
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Julian Jarrold
Actors: Michael Gambon, Emma Thompson, Matthew Goode, Patrick Malahide, Felicity Jones, Anna Madeley
Plot: Based on a novel that explores extramarital affairs, relationships and catholicism. It explores how religion can tear a family apart along with love and happiness. It takes a close look at why and how marriages fail.
215. Tokyo!
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joon-ho Bong, Leos Carax, Michel Gondry
Actors: Ayako Fujitani, Denis Lavant, Jean-François Balmer, Ryo Kase, Teruyuki Kagawa, Nao Omori
216. Elegy
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Isabel Coixet
Actors: Patricia Clarkson, Penélope Cruz, Sonja Bennett, Ben Kingsley, Deborah Harry, Dennis Hopper
Plot: An older man struggles with insecurity and the pre-defined rules of dating younger women. When he becomes involved with a beautiful woman half his age, he is hesitant to believe it might last and preemptively sabotages the relationship.
217. The Accidental Husband
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Romance/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Griffin Dunne
Actors: Uma Thurman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Colin Firth, Sam Shepard, Lindsay Sloane, Justina Machado
Plot: A talk-show host encourages a listener to break up with her boyfriend, and
when she does, he wants revenge.
218. Choke
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Clark Gregg
Actors: Anjelica Huston, Sam Rockwell, Brad William Henke, Bijou Phillips, Paz de la Huerta, Gillian Jacobs
Plot: A sex addict tries to acomplish 2 things that seem to be releated. Save his mother and save his addiction. He knows his weaknesses but as the story unwinds it becomes more clear what the original problem is. As he goes from girl to girl while trying to help his mother, his sexual problems escalate.
219. Priceless ( Hors de prix )
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Pierre Salvadori
Actors: Audrey Tautou, Gad Elmaleh, Vernon Dobtcheff, Marie-Christine Adam, Jacques Spiesser, Annelise Hesme
220. Midnight Meat Train
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
Actors: Brooke Shields, Bradley Cooper, Vinnie Jones, Leslie Bibb, Roger Bart, Ted Raimi
Plot: Leon Kaufman is a struggling photographer who is fascinated by the night time culture of the city. He gets more grittier, provocative and risky which puts him in the path of a serial killer that butchers his victims that he finds on the subway.
