In Wide Release: Evan Almighty, A Mighty Heart, Broken English

A Mighty Heart

Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie stars as the wife of reporter Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and murdered while on assignment in Pakistan in 2002.

On January 23, 2002, Mariane Pearl’s world changed forever. Her husband Daniel, South Asia bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, was researching a story on shoe bomber Richard Reid. The story drew them to Karachi where a go-between had promised access to an elusive source. As Danny left for the meeting, he told Mariane he might be late for dinner. He never returned.

In the face of death, Danny’s spirit of defiance and his unflinching belief in the power of journalism led Mariane to write about his disappearance, the intense effort to find him and his eventual murder in her memoir “A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl.”

Starring Jolie, Dan Futterman, Irrfan Khan, Adnan Siddiqui, and Alyy Khan. Directed by Michael Winterbottom.

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Evan Almighty

Evan Almighty is the sequel to the Jim Carrey original, Bruce Almighty. Steve Carell (The Office) stars as a self-obsessed congressman who is commanded by God to build an ark to prepare for a flood.

And so Evan leaves Buffalo behind and shepherds his family to suburban northern Virginia. Once there, his life gets turned upside-down when God appears and mysteriously commands him to build an ark. But his befuddled family just can’t decide whether Evan is having an extraordinary mid-life crisis or is truly onto something of Biblical proportions.

Also starring Morgan Freeman (reprising his role as God), Lauren Graham, John Goodman, and Jimmy Bennett. Tom Shadyac directs.

Broken English

Parker Posey stars as Nora Wilder, a cynical thirty-something Manhattanite hoping to break out of the same old disastrous patterns in life and love.

Nora plugs away at her job in a posh downtown hotel and can’t help but wonder what it is she has to do to find a relationship as ideal as her friend Audrey’s “perfect marriage.” It doesn’t help that her overbearing mother takes every opportunity to remind Nora that she’s still unattached. After a series of disastrous first dates, she meets Julien, a seemingly devil-may-care Frenchman with a passion for living.

Expecting another disastrous ending, Nora tries to avoid making the same mistakes. Inevitably, Nora has to look inward before she can find a new outlook on life and most importantly, love.

Also stars Drea de Matteo, Gena Rowlands, Justin Theroux, and Josh Hamilton. Directed by Zoe R. Cassavetes.

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