The idea: An inspiring junior high school teacher has a secret life with a serious drug habit.
Writers: Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck
Director: Fleck
* So? Above average
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Opening the treasure chest
SNEAKS / THE LIST
The movies have quite an assortment of baubles to carry us through the dog days.
For The Record
Los Angeles Times Tuesday May 09, 2006 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 2 National Desk 1 inches; 54 words Type of Material: Correction
"Goal" screenwriters: The list of summer movies in Sunday's Calendar said that the film "Goal! The Dream Begins" was written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, with a story by Mike Jefferies and Adrian Butchart. The final credits list all four as writers, with Jefferies and Butchart also getting the "story by" credit.
For The Record
Los Angeles Times Sunday May 14, 2006 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 2 National Desk 1 inches; 55 words Type of Material: Correction
"Goal!" screenwriters: The list of summer movies in the May 7 Calendar said the film "Goal! The Dream Begins" was written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, with a story by Mike Jefferies and Adrian Butchart. The final credits list all four as writers, with Jefferies and Butchart also getting the "story by" credit.
The Reaping
Thriller
\o7Warner Bros.
\f7With: Hilary Swank, David Morrissey, Idris Elba, AnnaSophia Robb
The idea: A faithless former missionary is at a loss to explain the biblical phenomena plaguing a Louisiana town.
Writers: Chad Hayes & Carey Hayes, story by Brian Rousso
Director: Stephen Hopkins
* So? Bayou spookiness
Step Up
Drama
\o7Touchstone Pictures
\f7With: Channing Tatum, Jenna Dewan, Mario, Drew Sidora, Rachel Griffiths, Dwight "Heavy D" Myers, Damaine Radcliff, De'Shawn Washington
The idea: An at-risk Baltimore street dancer and an aspiring ballet dancer fuel one another's dreams.
Writer: Duane Adler and Melissa Rosenberg, story by Adler
Director: Anne Fletcher
* So? Opposites attract
Street Poet
Drama
\o7Indican Pictures
\f7With: C. Thomas Howell, Tara D'Agostino, Jeff Stearns, Fred Willard, Edward Albert, Fred Williamson, Michael Parks
The idea: The relationship between a sexy publisher and her latest poetry slam discovery heats up.
Writer-director: E. Paul Edwards
* So? Cast from the past
Zoom
Comedy
\o7Columbia/Revolution
\f7With: Tim Allen, Courteney Cox, Chevy Chase, Spencer Breslin, Rip Torn
The idea: An out-of-shape former superhero must train the next generation to save the world.
Writers: Adam Rifkin and David Berenbaum, screen story by Rifkin, based on the novel by Jason Lethcoe
Director: Peter Hewitt
* So? Generation gap
**
Aug. 18
Clerks II
Comedy
\o7The Weinstein Co./MGM
\f7With: Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Rosario Dawson, Trevor Fehrman, Jennifer Schwalbach, Jason Mewes, left, Kevin Smith, right.
The idea: The convenience store heroes Dante and Randal tackle the questions of adulthood.
Writer-director: Smith
* So? Tardy
Factotum
Drama
\o7IFC Films
\f7With: Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor, Marisa Tomei
The idea: Bukowski surrogate Henry Chinaski writes, drinks and enters into a relationship with an equally self-destructive woman.
Writer: Bent Hamer, Jim Stark; based on a novel by Charles Bukowski
Director: Hamer
* So? Something light (not)
Fakers
Comedy
\o7Indican Pictures
\f7With: Matthew Rhys, Art Malik, Tom Chambers, Kate Ashfield, Rula Lenska
The idea: In debt to a crime lord, a London man hatches a scam to forge copies of a lost sketch by an Italian master and sell them simultaneously to unsuspecting buyers.
Writer: Paul Gerstenberger
Director: Richard Janes
* So? Oddly topical
Flyboys
Action
\o7Milestone Entertainment
\f7With: Stephen Baldwin, Tom Sizemore, Jesse James, Reilly McClendon
The idea: Teenage brothers find themselves caught between a Las Vegas gangster and his ne'er-do-well brother.
Writers: Rocco DeVilliers, Richard Dutcher and Jason DeVilliers, story by Rocco DeVilliers and Gregory C. Haynes
Director: Rocco DeVilliers
* So? Curiosity factor
The Illusionist
Thriller
\o7Yari Film Group
\f7With: Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, Jessica Biel, Rufus Sewell, Eddie Marsan
The idea: His involvement with a duchess places a virtuoso magician at odds with the crown prince and chief inspector in 1900 Vienna.
Writer-director: Neil Burger, based on the short story "Eisenheim the Illusionist" by Steven Millhauser
* So? Disappearing act
My First Wedding
Comedy
\o7Cinema Libre
\f7With: Rachael Leigh Cook, Kenny Doughty, Paul Hopkins, Valerie Mahaffey, Caroline Carver
The idea: A bride-to-be's misdirected confession of a fantasy leads to complications.
Writer: Joan Carr-Wiggin
Director: Laurent Firode
* So? Implied progression
Nearing Grace
Drama
\o7Whitewater Films
\f7With: Gregory Smith, Jordana Brewster, Ashley Johnson, David Morse
The idea: A high school senior seeks enlightenment in the form of an elusive beauty.
Writer: Jacob Aaron Estes from a Scott Sommer novel
Director: Rick Rosenthal
* So? Fleeting
Trust the Man
Comedy
\o7Fox Searchlight
\f7With: Julianne Moore, left, Billy Crudup, David Duchovny, Maggie Gyllenhaal, right, Eva Mendes, James LeGros
The idea: The romantic escapades of four New Yorkers -- an actress, her stay-at-home husband, her slacker brother and his aspiring novelist girlfriend -- play out against the hectic background of modern life.
Writer-director: Bart Freundlich
* So? Impressive tangle
**
Aug. 25
Beerfest
Comedy
\o7Warner Bros.
\f7With: Jay Chandrasekhar, Erik Stolhanske, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter
The idea: Humiliated at an underground Oktoberfest competition, two American brothers return to Germany a year later seeking revenge.
Writers: Broken Lizard
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
* So? Head trip
DOA: Dead or Alive
Action
\o7Dimension Films
\f7With: Devon Aoki, left, Holly Valance and Sarah Carter, above; also Jaime Pressly, Natassia Malthe, Matthew Marsden, Eric Roberts
The idea: Based on the video fighting game series
Writers: J.F. Lawton and Seth Gross & Adam Gross, story by Lawton, based on the video game by Tecmo
Director: Corey Yuen
* So? Kinetic
How to Eat Fried Worms
Drama
\o7New Line Cinema
\f7With: Luke Benwald, Tom Cavanaugh, Kimberly Williams, Hallie Kate Eisenberg
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