A-LISTS film by tim parks
Humor Me Love and Other Drugs not only combines romance
with comedy and drama, it also reunites former Brokeback Mountain co-stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway. The film is set against the dog-eat- dog world of pharmaceutical sales, in particular, with Gyllenhaal’s character hawking a male performance enhancement drug, as source material is based on Jamie Reidy’s memoir Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Vi- agra Salesman. And a hard sell approach is needed by Jamie (Gyllenhaal) to entice Maggie (Hathaway) into a romance. She is a free spirit who doesn’t succumb easily to matters of the heart. Opens November 24.
Music To My Queers When small-town girl Ali (Christina Aguilera in her
screen debut) travels to Los Angeles to fulfill her long- desired dreams of pursuing a musical career, she happens upon The Burlesque Lounge, a once thriving establishment that has now fallen on hard times. Ali hopes to strut her vocal stuff rather than sling
drinks for patrons at the venue, after she is given a cocktail waitress job by the club’s headliner and owner Tess (Cher in her return to the big screen). Soon, Aguilera’s character is both making friends
(Julianne Hough) and enemies (Kristen Bell) among the musical revue’s performers, while a stage man- ager (Stanley Tucci) and the show’s gender bender host (Alan Cumming) take her under their collective wings in trying to get her time in the limelight. Opens November 24.
Close Encounters of the Cinematic Kind Filmmaking brothers Colin and Greg Strause, who
brought audiences Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem in 2007, are back with a sci-fi tale of another type of alien invasion. In Skyline, the denizens of Los Angeles are drawn like moths to an extraterrestrial flame after bizarre lights ap- pear unexpectedly over the City of Angels. Unfortunately, the lights turn out to be gigantic alien
spaceships that have the ability to suck the populace off the face of the Earth, thus the movie’s tagline of “Don’t Look Up” coming into play. Opens November 12.
Here’s the story about the new romcom Morning
Glory, which stars Harrison Ford, Rachel McAdams, Di- ane Keaton and Patrick Wilson. Recently unemployed TV producer Becky Fuller (McAdams) finds herself gainfully employed at the lowest-rated morning news program in the nation. However, she sees an opportu- nity to give the ratings a boost by bringing aboard re- nowned TV anchor Mike Pomeroy (Ford). The trouble with her solution is that Pomeroy abhors the idea of chatting about celebrity gossip and the like, while his co-anchor Colleen Peck (Keaton) doesn’t. As the duo begins to clash on-camera, behind-the-scenes Becky becomes romantically involved with Adam Bennett (Wilson). Opens November 10.
Drama Queens The King’s Speech is a cinematic retelling of the true story based upon Queen Eliza-
beth II’s father King George VI becoming the ruler of England, after his brother Edward abdicates the throne. Assisting the newly appointed monarch, played by Colin Firth, is nonconformist Aus-
tralian speech therapist Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush), who has been enlisted in helping the King overcome his pronounced stuttering problem. The two become unlikely chums, with Logue helping King George VI find his true
voice to lead the country into war and dispel the notion that he is unfit to rule England. The King’s Speech boasts an all-star cast, which includes Helena Bonham Carter, Derek Jacobi, Guy Pearce and Michael Gambon. Opens November 26.
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