April Feature Films
Catch a new movie every night at midnight on The Emerson Channel! This month we have Academy Award winning Precious,followed by an interview with director Lee Daniels! |
| Defiance
It is 1941 in Eastern Europe and amid the massacre of the Jews, three brothers manage to escape into the woods near their home. Initially just surviving, they soon begin a desperate battle against the Nazi’s. Their bravery attracts others to their fight for freedom as they find a way to avenge the deaths of their loved ones. |
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| Stepmom A terminally ill single mother (Susan Sarandon) teaches her ex-husband's young wife (Julia Roberts) how to care for her children after her death. In this most difficult process, an extended family is truly and irrevocably created. |
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| Girl, Interrupted In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, Susanna Kaysen (Winona Ryder) was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder-an affliction with symptoms so ambiguous almost any adolescent girl might qualify. She is sent to a renowned New England psychiatric hospital where she spent the next two years in a ward for teenage girls. There, Susanna loses herself among the other patients, including Lisa (Angelina Jolie), a charming sociopath who stages a disastrous escape, and Daisy (Brittany Murphy), a pampered girl with a predilection for rotisserie chicken. In an attempt to reclaim her life, Susanna is assisted by the hospital's head psychiatrist, Dr. Wick (Vanessa Redgrave), and a no-nonsense ward nurse, Valerie (Whoopi Goldberg). GIRL, INTERRUPTED questions the boundaries between confinement and freedom, friendship and betrayal, and madness and sanity at a time when it seemed the whole world might be going crazy. |
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The Hours The lives of two different women are affected across the time continuum via a Virginia Woolf novel. Clarissa Vaughn (Streep) is a book editor in modern day New York who is throwing a party for a friend of hers who is dying of AIDS. Laura Brown is a housewife in 1949 who is planning a party for her husband but cannot put down Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. Both women are connected to the brilliant but depressed author who is shown during the writing of her famous tome. The three stories are interwoven to show how the modern woman is intimately connected to her past. |
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| Ferris Bueller's Day Off John Hughes' magical comedy about how playing hooky for a single day can produce a lifetime's worth of adventure. Matthew Broderick is Ferris, a guy who knows the value of a day off. |
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Rain Man Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) wants to swindle money out of his autistic savant brother, Raymond (Dustin Hoffman). But when the brothers journey across America together, Raymond teaches Charlie a few valuable lessons about life. |
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An Inconvenient Truth This documentary presents Al Gore’s campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide. Intertwining simple but harrowing statistics with personal reflections, Gore explains that the tools and methods to reverse the damage we have done are at hand and that the economic consequences of tackling the problem are positive rather than negative. |
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| Free Willy Jesse (Jason James Richter), a troubled twelve-year-old, befriends Willy, an orca whale recently captured by the seaquarium. When the owner of the seaquarium plots to kill Willy for the insurance money, Jesse risks his life to FREE WILLY in this touching family adventure. |
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Couples Retreat This comedy is centered around four Midwestern couples who settle into a tropical-island resort for a vacation. While one of the couples is there to work on the marriage, the others fail to realize that partici2pation in the resort's therapy sessions is not optional. |
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| Precious Set in Harlem in 1987, it is the story of Clareece “Precious” Jones, a sixteen-year-old African–American girl born into a life no one would want. She’s pregnant for the second time by her absent father. Precious may sometimes be down but she is never out. She finds her answer when she is asked to join a special school that will lead her from darkness to light. |
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| 2012 Never before has a date in history been so significant to so many cultures, so many religions, scientists and governments. This film is an epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors. |
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28 Days From director Betty Thomas comes 28 DAYS, the story of Gwen Cummings (Sandra Bullock), a successful New York writer living life in the fast lane and everyone's favorite party girl-until she gets drunk with boyfriend Jasper (Dominic West), borrows her sister's (Elizabeth Perkins) wedding limo and earns herself a stay in court-ordered rehab. There, Gwen comes face to face with a unique set of rules and rituals embraced by an assortment of interesting characters and eventually realizes that life is not one big party! |
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| Twilight: New Moon In the newest episode of the Twilight saga, Bella Swan is devastated by the abrupt departure of her vampire love, Edward Cullen but her spirit is rekindled by her growing friendship with the irresistible Jacob Black. Suddenly she finds herself drawn into the world of the werewolves, ancestral enemies of the vampires, and finds her loyalties tested. |
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| Anger Management Dave Buznik (Sandler) is a shy businessman who is wrongly sent to an anger management program. There he has the unfortunate luck to run into ultra-aggressive counselor Buddy Rydell (Nicholson) who takes his job much too seriously and eventually bully’s his way into every aspect of Dave’s life. |
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| Erin Brockovich Erin Brockovich (Julia Roberts), a file clerk, discovers a cover-up involving contaminated water that has a devastating impact on a small desert community in this legal drama based on true events. Despite the community's initial reluctance to become involved, Erin earns their trust and convinces them to file a suit against the major public utility company that results in the largest settlement ever paid in a direct action suit—$333 million dollars. |
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