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The Butler

Opens Friday, Aug 16, 2013 Synopsis: Director Lee Daniels (Precious) teams up with Emmy Award-winning screenwriter Danny Strong to tell the remarkable story of White House butler Eugene Allen (played by Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker), who served eight U.S. presidents over the course of 30 years, and witnessed sweeping social change during his three decades of service at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Inspired by Wil Haygood's Washington Post article, The Butler features Robin Williams as Dwight D. Eisenhower, James Marsden as John F. Kennedy, Liev Schreiber as Lyndon B. Johnson, John Cusack as Richard M. Nixon and Alan Rickman as Ronald Reagan. Oprah Winfrey, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Terrence Howard, Jane Fonda, David Oyelowo, Lenny Kravitz, Melissa Leo, and Vanessa Redgrave co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi Cast: Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Terrence Howard, Alan Rickman, Jane Fonda Movie Details Play Trailer Buy Tickets Movie Review

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Now Playing Synopsis: Mohsin Hamid's international best-seller concerning a Pakistani Princeton graduate whose life is forever altered by the 9/11 terrorist attacks arrives on the screen courtesy of celebrated filmmaker Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding, Salaam Bombay!). Changez Khan (Riz Ahmed) was a bright Wall Street business analyst working under the influential Jim Cross (Kiefer Sutherland) when two passenger jets brought down the World Trade Center as he watched in horror. His American Dream shattered alongside his future with the radiant Erica (Kate Hudson), Khan is suddenly branded an enemy in the land he called home. The humiliation of being wrongfully arrested, profiled, and interrogated soon drives Khan back to his family in Pakistan. There, Khan's eloquence and charisma make him a natural leader among the anti-American student population, but a potential threat in the eyes of the U.S. government. Years later, American journalist Bobby Lincoln (Liev Schreiber) tracks down Khan in Lahore to interview him about a foreign professor who has been abducted by extremists, and threatened with execution. Recognizing the danger to his family, and well aware that Lincoln has a hidden agenda, the man who slowly became the victim of his own cruel fate recounts the story of his profound and unexpected transformation, and the devastating repercussions it threatens to have on everything he holds sacred. Martin Donovan and Om Puri also star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi Cast: Riz Ahmed, Kate Hudson, Liev Schreiber, Kiefer Sutherland Movie Details Play Trailer Buy Tickets Movie Review

Third installment of movie's a 'Scream'

...David Arquette, Parker Posey, Scott Foley, Kelly Rutherford, Jennie McCarthy, Matt Keeslar, Patrick Dempsey, Liev Schreiber and Lance Henriksen. PLOT SUMMARY: During the shooting of the film Stab 3, the famed masked killer strikes again...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2000/02/15/xtr_282979.shtml
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...Washington plays a captain whose platoon is kidnapped and brainwashed during the Persian Gulf War, with one of his men (Liev Schreiber) ending up at the center of an assassination plot 10 years later orchestrated by his scheming mother (Meryl Streep...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2004/12/23/ent_437884.shtml
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At the Movies: 'The Manchurian Candidate'

...muddled 2002 remake of another '60s classic, "Charade." His cast, led by Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep and Liev Schreiber, is first-rate, ably filling the roles originated by Frank Sinatra, Angela Lansbury and Laurence Harvey in John...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2004/07/30/mov_423760.shtml
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'Defiance' relies on its strengths

...encounters the ragtag Bielskis. These do. Defiance focuses on brothers Tuvia and Zuz Bielski (Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber), strong-willed rivals who, with younger brother Asael (Jamie Bell), flee to the forests after the Germans...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/01/15/mov_507694.shtml
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Movie-goers crowd into 'Village' for $50.8 million debut

...opened at No. 3 with $20.2 million. The update of the 1962 assassination thriller co-stars Meryl Streep and Liev Schreiber. The weekend's other wide releases flopped. "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle," about two stoned pals on a...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2004/08/02/mov_424063.shtml
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DVD releases include 'Over the Hedge,' 'The Break-Up,' 'The Omen' and 'American Dreamz'

...ultimate bad seed returns in a remake of the 1976 horror tale about the spawn of Satan unleashing hell on Earth. Liev Schreiber and Julia Stiles stand in for the original's Gregory Peck and Lee Remick as parents who take in an orphan baby after...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2006/10/19/mov_101018.shtml
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At the Movies: capsule reviews of new films

...puppets in an assassination conspiracy, despite first-rate performances from Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep and Liev Schreiber. The filmmakers try to bring new relevance to the Cold War saga by setting it amid on our war on terrorism, but...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2004/08/02/mov_424068.shtml
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Mental

Now Playing Synopsis: His wife Shirley (Rebecca Gibney) institutionalized following a complete mental breakdown, philandering family patriarch Barry Moochmore (Anthony LaPaglia) impulsively hires eccentric vagabond Shaz (Toni Collette) to be a nanny to their five daughters. As Shaz instills the unpopular girls with a much-needed dose of self confidence, fearless shark hunter Trevor (Liev Schreiber) shows up unexpectedly, and throws a spanner in the works. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi Cast: Toni Collette, Liev Schreiber, Anthony LaPaglia, Rebecca Gibney Movie Details Play Trailer Buy Tickets Movie Review