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An Ugly Sitcom, and That's the Truth

Abby Richter (Katherine Heigl) is the exasperated producer of Sacramento AM, a TV morning show suffering from poor ratings. Presently, morale in the studio is so low that crew members have begun bickering with each other on a daily basis, even co-hosts Georgia (Cheryl Hines) and Larry Redding (John Michael Higgins) who happen to be married to each other.


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JFK Becomes Embroiled in Unsavory Triangle in Historical Drama

"An American Affair," set in Washington, D.C. in 1963, revolves around an implausible love triangle involving JFK, a beautiful divorcee (Gretchen Mol) and a 13 year-old boy (Cameron Bright).


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Girl Next-Door Becomes Playboy Playmate in One of the Year's Worst Films

High school seniors Eugene Pratt (Zach Cregger) and Tucker Cleigh (Trevor Moore) are best friends, despite the fact that the former is a celibate nerd, while the latter is a popular player who openly boasts openly about having already slept with a dozen different women. Eugene and his girlfriend, Cindi Whitehall (Raquel Alessi) have agreed to abstinence, because his big brother got a woman pregnant the first time he had sex.


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Kam's Kapsules Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun


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Jackie Chan says ``Kung Fu Kid'' co-star Jaden Smith's dedication to martial arts puts his own son to shame. The 11-year-old son of Hollywood stars Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith has been training under Chan's stunt co-ordinator for his role in the China Film Group-Columbia Pictures remake of the 1984 hit ``The Karate Kid,'' which kicked off filming in Beijing on July 11. ...


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Boy Wizard Back at Hogwarts for More Hair-Raising Hijinks

Nothing I say here could possibly have any effect one way or the other on the hordes of Harry Potter faithful flocking to see this eagerly-anticipated, sixth installment in the franchise based on the phenomenally-popular series of children's novels by J.K. Rowling ...


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Nick (Chris Evans) is a so-called Mover born with the ability to manipulate objects with his mind, a trait he inherited from his late father. Thirteen-year-old Cassie (Dakota Fanning), on the other hand, is a Watcher, which means she can see far into the future ...

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Kam's Kapsules:  Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun


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Nick (Chris Evans) is a so-called Mover born with the ability to manipulate objects with his mind, a trait he inherited from his late father. Thirteen-year-old Cassie (Dakota Fanning), on the other hand, is a Watcher, which means she can see far into the future.  The source of their superhuman powers is a Nazi scientific experiment gone haywire during the Holocaust in which kids were fed milk with radioactive iodine. Consequently, there's a whole race of mutants roaming the Earth . . .

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Portrait of a Young Artist as Apprentice

Eighteen-year-old John Talia, Jr.,(Trevor Morgan)is an aspiring artist who is mostly misunderstood by his blue-collar father (Ray Liotta). John, Sr. thinks his son must be a homosexual because he enjoys drawing male nudes. After all, this is 1974, during decidedly less-enlightened times, especially in upstate New York. . . .

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