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. What Happens in Vegas
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Tom Vaughan
Actors: Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher, Queen Latifah, Lake Bell, Dennis Farina, Rob Corddry
Plot: Two strangers hook up and get married in Vegas. Upon piecing together the night they realize that one of them one a huge jackpot with the other's money the night before. They stage huge schemes to get the money from one another and end up really falling in love.
214. 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
215. 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.
216. 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.
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. 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.
219. 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.
220. 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
