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Ethiopian Entertainment | FEATURE FILMS | Short Programs
FEBRUARY 2008
(Class : Economy) |
Resurrecting the Champ |
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Cast : Samuel L. Jackson, Josh Hartnett, Alan Alda |
Director : Rod Lurie |
Rated : PG-13 |
Running Time : 111 minutes |
Genre : Drama |
Ailing journalist, Eric Kernan discovers a living legend who fell away from a promising career as a fighter, and decides to base his finest ever story on him. But the story he tells is nothing compared to the one he’s about to live.
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FEBRUARY 2008
(Class : Economy) |
The Jane Austin Book Club |
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Cast : Maria Bello, Kevin Zegers, Nancy Travis, Amy Brenneman |
Director : Robin Swicord |
Rated : PG-13 |
Running Time : 106 minutes |
Genre : Drama/Romance |
Six book club members, six Austen books, six interwoven story lines over six months in the busy modern setting of Sacramento. “The Jane Austin Book Club” reveals the lives of an ensemble of present-day friends through the witty prism of their literary heroine.
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FEBRUARY 2008
(Class : Economy) |
The Bourne Ultimatum |
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Cast : Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, Joan Allen, David Strathairn, Paddy Considine |
Director : Paul Greengrass |
Rated : PG-13 |
Running Time : 115 minutes |
Genre : Thriller |
In the new chapter of this espionage series, Bourne will hunt down his past in order to find a future. He must travel from Moscow, Paris and London to Tangier and New York City as he continues his quest to find the real Jason Bourne - all the while trying to outmaneuvers the scores of cops, federal officers and Interpol agents that are hot on his trail.
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FEBRUARY 2008
(Class : Economy) |
The Nanny Diaries |
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Cast : Scarlett Johansson, Laura Linney, Paul Giamatti, Alicia Keys |
Director : Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini |
Rated : PG-13 |
Running Time : 104 minutes |
Genre : Comedy, Drama, Romance |
This is the story of a young woman from a working-class neighborhood in New Jersey, struggling to understand her place in the world. Fresh out of college, she gets tremendous pressure from her mother to find a respectable position in the business world. She accepts the position as a nanny for a wealthy family. However, she is quickly forced to explore her identity like never before.
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FEBRUARY 2008
(Class : Economy) |
Stardust |
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Cast : Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert De Niro, Claire Danes, Sienna Miller; |
Director : Matthew Vaughn |
Rated : PG-13 |
Running Time : 120 minutes |
Genre : Action/Adventure |
A young man named Tristan tries to win the heart of
Victoria, the beautiful but cold object of his desire, by
going on a quest to retrieve a fallen star. Tristan will
have to cross the forbidden wall of his village and enter
the mysterious kingdom lit by unending magic. In this
fantastical realm known as stormhold, Tristan discovers
that this fallen star is not at all that he expected.
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FEBRUARY 2008
(Class : Economy) |
Heyy Baby |
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Cast : Akshay Kumar, Fardeen Khan, Ritesh Deshmukh, Boman Iran |
Director : Sajid Khan |
Rated : PG |
Running Time : 120 minutes |
Genre : Comedy |
Three handsome Sydney bachelors are having the time of their life in Sydney, until they suddenly find their dating and mating rituals irreparably destroyed when
a dimpled little roommate lands up on their doorstep – complete with her crib.
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FEBRUARY 2008
(Class : Economy) |
Hot Rod |
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Cast : Andy Samberg, Ian Mcshane, Jorma Taccone, Sissy Spacek |
Director : Akiva Schaffer |
Rated : PG-13 |
Running Time : 88 minutes |
Genre : Comedy |
Rod Taylor is the world’s greatest stunt man. In his own mind, anyway. When his abusive stepfather, frank, needs
a life-saving heart operation, kind-hearted rod plans the
ultimate jump - over 15 buses - to raise enough money
for the surgery.
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FEBRUARY 2008
(Class : Economy) |
Bratz |
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Cast : Nathalia Ramos, Janel Parrish, Logan Browning, Skyler Shaye |
Director : Sean McNamara |
Rated : PG |
Running Time : 110 minutes |
Genre : Comedy |
As long as they can remember, Yasmin, Jade, Sasha and Cloe have been “BFF” - Best Friends Forever, inseparable since they first met. But now as the girls enter Carry Nation High they face a brand new world. Finding themselves being pulled further and further apart, the girls band together and rise up as “the Bratz”.
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FEBRUARY 2008
(Class : Economy) |
The Ultimate Gift |
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Cast : Drew Fuller, Abigail Breslin, James Garner |
Director : Michael Sajbel |
Rated : PG |
Running Time : 114 minutes |
Genre : Drama |
When Jason Stevens’ impossibly wealthy Grandfather, Red Stevens, dies, he figures the “reading of the will thing” will be another simple cash transaction. Instead, Red devises twelve tasks, with twelve “gifts” that Jason must accomplish in order to receive his inheritance.
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JANUARY 2008
(Class : Economy) |
The Last Legion |
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Cast : Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley, Aishwarya Rai |
Director : Doug Lefler Rating |
Rated : PG-13 |
Running Time : 110 minutes |
Genre : Action/Fantasy |
12-year-old Romulus becomes the last emperor of the Roman empire for one day, before it falls and he loses everything. Imprisoned on an island fortress, he uses strategy and skill to escape, and goes in search of the Last Legion.
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JANUARY 2008
(Class : Economy) |
Ta Ra Rum Pum |
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Cast : Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukerji, Jaaved Jaaferi, Ali Haji |
Director : Siddharth Anand |
Rated : NR |
Running Time : 120 minutes |
Genre : Family Drama |
Rajveer Singh is a successful racing car driver with a
beautiful wife and two kids to boot. But when a major
accident forces him off the track, the family struggles to
survive a life that they are not used to, using a mixture
of fantasy and cheerfulness to pull through in the face of
adversity.
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JANUARY 2008
(Class : Economy) |
Underdog |
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Cast : Jim Belushi, Peter Dinklage, Patrick Warburton |
Director : Frederik Du Chau |
Rated : PG |
Running Time : 84 minutes |
Genre : Comedy |
In this imaginative live-action fantasy comedy, an ordinary beagle has an accident in the mysterious lab of a maniacal scientist. Unexpectedly able to speak and endowed with unimaginable super-powers, the heroic pooch soon vows to protect the beleaguered citizens of Capitol City especially one beautiful spaniel named Polly.
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JANUARY 2008
(Class : Economy) |
The Seat Filler |
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Cast : Duane Martin, Kelly Rowland, Melanie Brown |
Director : Nick Castle |
Rated : PG-13 |
Running Time : 90 minutes |
Genre : Romantic/Comedy |
Derrick is a law student who takes a job as an awards show seat filler to make ends meet. One day he’s seated next to the beautiful pop star, Janelle, who mistakes him for an industry executive! Should he keep up the charade or come clean?
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JANUARY 2008
(Class : Economy) |
Ratatouille |
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Cast : Voice Talents of Patton Oswalt, Brian Dennehy, Brad Garrett, Janeane Garofalo |
Director : Brad Bird |
Rated : U |
Running Time : 111 minutes |
Genre : Family Comedy |
In this delightful comic tale, a rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef in a 5-star Parisian restaurant run by a brilliant, eccentric master chef. Remy joins forces with Linguini, the restaurant’s garbage boy, causing extraordinary events that turn the culinary world of Paris upside down.
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JANUARY 2008
(Class : Economy) |
Transformers |
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Cast : Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Jon Voight |
Director : Michael Bay |
Rated : PG-13 |
Running Time : 130 minutes |
Genre : Action |
Two intergalactic races of robots, the Autobots and the evil Decepticons, crash land on Earth where they battle for the ultimate power source, Energon, leaving the future of humankind hanging in the balance. As the villainous Decepticons struggle to obtain the key to unlimited power, a teenage boy may stand as mankind’s last hope for survival.
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JANUARY 2008
(Class : Economy) |
High School Musical 2 |
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Cast : Zac Efron, Vanessa Anne Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Corbin Bleu |
Director : Kenny Ortega |
Rated : NR |
Running Time : 105 minutes |
Genre : Family/Musical |
In the sequel to “High School Musical”, school’s out for summer, and the East High Wildcats are ready to kick back and make it the time of their lives. When the gang start working for the local country club, they start gearing up for the Midsummer Night’s Talent Show, in which Troy and Gabriella may just score a winning duet, unless Sharpay can stop them.
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JANUARY 2008
(Class : Economy) |
The Contract |
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Cast : John Cusack, Morgan Freeman, Jamie Anderson |
Director : Tom DiCillo |
Rated : R |
Running Time : 97 minutes |
Genre : Thriller/Drama |
While on a camping trip with his son, ex-cop Ray Keene stumbles into a nightmare scenario of paid assassins and ex-military guns-for-hire. To save his son, Ray must find the real target before he finishes the hit.
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JANUARY 2008
(Class : Economy) |
Unaccompanied Minors |
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Cast : Lewis Black, Wilmer Valderrama, Tyler James Williams, Dyllan Christopher |
Director : Paul Feig |
Rated : PG |
Running Time : 92 minutes |
Genre : Comedy/Drama |
It’s Christmas Eve and five kids have just been snowed in at the airport - and there isn’t a parent in sight. Unaccompanied Minors follows awkward Spencer, rich-girl Grace, tomboy Donna, geeky Charlie and bashful Beef as they try to outwit a disgruntled airport official and reunite with their families.
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MARCH 2008
(Class : Economy) |
Daddy Day Camp |
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Cast : Cuba Gooding, Paul Rae, Josh McLerran, Lochlyn Munro |
Director : Fred Savage |
Rated : PG |
Running Time : 88 minutes |
Genre : Comedy |
Cuba Gooding JR. and the Daddy Day Care team are back, this time following the trials and tribulations of a clueless dad who’s been put in charge of a summer day camp for kids.
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MARCH 2008
(Class : Economy) |
Moving McAllister |
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Cast : Jon Heder, Mila Kunis, Rutger Hauer, Ben Gourley |
Director : Andrew Black |
Rated : PG-13 |
Running Time : 93 minutes |
Genre : Comedy/Romance |
An ambitious intern at a prestigious law firm agrees to help his boss with a favour. Just five days before the bar exam, Rick finds himself in charge of moving McAllister’s niece cross-country. Soon after starting out, they meet free-spirited hitchhiker, Orlick Prescott Hope.
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MARCH 2008
(Class : Economy) |
The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising |
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Cast : Alexander Ludwig, Christopher Eccleston, Ian Mcshane, Frances Conroy; |
Director : David L. |
Rated : PG |
Running Time : 94 minutes |
Genre : Action/Adventure/Fantasy |
The film tells the story of Will Stanton, a young man who learns he is the last of a group of warriors who have dedicated their lives to fighting the forces of the Dark.
Traveling back and forth through time, will discover a series of clues which lead him into a showdown with forces of unimaginable power. with the dark once again rising, the future of the world rests in will’s hands.
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MARCH 2008
(Class : Economy) |
The Blue Umbrella |
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Cast : Pankaj Kapoor, Shreya Sharma, Deepak Dobriyal, Manek Bedi |
Director : Vishal Bharadwaj |
Rated : PG-13 |
Running Time : 90 minutes |
Genre : Children/Drama |
Young binya exchanges her grandmother’s precious necklace
for a fascinating blue Japanese umbrella. She sings and dances
with it, rejoicing in materialistic success. But behind the
celebration, a traditional lesson is waiting.
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MARCH 2008
(Class : Economy) |
Mr Woodcock |
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Cast : Billy Bob Thornton, Seann William Scott, Susan Sarandon |
Director : Craig Gillespie |
Rated : PG-13 |
Running Time : 87 minutes |
Genre : Comedy |
Taken aback by his mother’s wedding announcement, a young man returns home in an effort to stop her from marrying his old high school gym teacher, a man who made high school hell for generations of students.
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MARCH 2008
(Class : Economy) |
Garfield Gets Real |
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Cast : Neil Ross, Wally Wingert, Pat Fraley, Jennifer Darley |
Director : Zach Helm |
Rated : G |
Running Time : 111 minutes |
Genre : Animated/Family |
Tired with his routine as a comic strip star, Garfield escapes the page and heads into the “real world.” While living the low-key life of a real housecat, he learns his comic will be cancelled if he doesn’t return before the newspaper goes to print. Garfield soon realises he’s made a big mistake and tries to head back, only to find out that it won’t be as easy as he thought.
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MARCH 2008
(Class : Economy) |
Shortcut to Happiness |
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Cast : Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Kim Cattrall; |
Director : Alec Baldwin |
Rated : PG-13 |
Running Time : 105 minutes |
Genre : Comedy/Drama |
Set in contemporary new York’s literary world, this is a re-telling of the classic fable of a man who sells his soul to the devil for fame and fortune and ultimately decides
that he wants it back. Jabez stone, a down and out writer, exchanges his soul for a successful literary career, but soon realizes it was a mistake and enlists the help of Daniel Webster to get it back.
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MARCH 2008
(Class : Economy) |
Rush Hour 3 |
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Cast : Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Hiroyuki Sanada, Youki Kudoh |
Director : Brett Ratner |
Rated : PG-13 |
Running Time : 91 minutes |
Genre : Action/Comedy |
LAPD Detective Carter and Chinese Inspector Lee are back and this time the unlikely duo head to Paris to stop a global criminal conspiracy and save the life of an old friend, Ambassador Han’s now-grown daughter, Soo Yung. Their race will take them across the city as they fight to outrun the world’s most deadly criminals and ultimately, save the day.
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MARCH 2008
(Class : Economy) |
The December Boys |
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Cast : Daniel Radcliffe, Christian Byers, Lee Cormie, James Fraser |
Director : Rod Hardy |
Rated : PG-13 |
Running Time : 105 minutes |
Genre : Drama/Romance |
“December Boys” is a story of four orphan teenagers growing up behind the closed doors of a catholic convent in outback Australia. For years the boys watch younger kids leave with their newly adopted parents and have come to the realization that their time may never come.
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