Director: Josh Shelov Screenwriter: Josh Shelov, Michael Jaeger Starring: Neil Patrick, Bonnie Somerville, Amy Sedaris, Jenna Stern, Christopher McDonald, Peter Serafinowicz, Bridget Regan, John Hodgman Genre: Comedy Plot: Jeff and Samantha Jasinski (Neil Patrick Harris and Bonnie Somerville) are a middle class married couple that move from Delaware to New York City with their five-year-old daughter for a last chance at "the big time." When they arrive to New York, they realize that there is a huge problem: they can't get their daughter into a single private kindergarten, all of which have been booked solid for months. The couple is immediately laughed at by every New York school administrator before desperately turning to a kindergarten consultant who believes Jeff should pose as a high-profile poet to have his child accepted. Jeff pawns off his friend's filthy e-mails and text messages as his poetry, which the school principal loves. Through sexual blackmail and creative persuasion, the Jasinskis battle to enroll their child for the fall semester.
Director: Jake Kasdan Screenwriter: Gene Stupnitsky, Lee Eisenberg Starring: Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake, Lucy Punch, John Michael Higgins, JasonSegel Genre: Comedy Plot: Some teachers just don't give an F. For example, there's Elizabeth (Cameron Diaz). She's foul-mouthed, ruthless, and inappropriate. She drinks, she gets high, and she can't wait to marry her meal ticket and get out of her bogus day job. When she's dumped by her fiancé, she sets her plan in motion to win over a rich, handsome substitute (JustinTimberlake) – competing for his affections with an overly energetic colleague, Amy (Lucy Punch). When Elizabeth also finds herself fighting off the advances of a sarcastic, irreverent gym teacher (Jason Segel), the consequences of her wild and outrageous schemes give her students, her coworkers, and even herself an education like no other.
Director: Michael J. Weithorn Screenwriter: Michael J. Weithorn Starring: Jenna Fischer, Chris O'Donnell, Rob Benedict, Daniel Yelsky, Kim Coates, Brooke Smith, LesleyAnnWarren, Ron Leibman, Zach Page, Arden Myrin, Aida Turturro, Jim Florentine, Dion DiMucci Sara Kapner, Michelle Hurst, Dena Hysell, Joe Gressis, Glen Trotiner Genre: Comedy, Drama Plot: It’s a movie for everyone whose life has been thrown off-course, out of whack, or simply not turned out the way they planned it. In other words, it’s a movie for everyone, period. Set in suburban Long Island in the summer of 2002, with the psychic wounds of 9/11 still fresh, A LITTLE HELP is a story that takes a comic, searching and profoundly empathetic look at a few pivotal months in the life of dental hygienist Laura Pehlke (Jenna Fischer)—an ordinary woman whose life suddenly flies off the rails—and her heroic efforts to re-establish a sense of security and normalcy for herself and her son. Thirtysomething Laura has always enjoyed the wind at her back, by virtue of her good looks and exuberant, winning personality. But lately, things have taken some dark and difficult turns. Her marriage to real estate agent Bob Pehlke (Chris O’Donnell) has become tense and loveless – Laura even suspects that he’s been cheating – and her previously close relationship with her 12 year-old son Dennis (Daniel Yelsky) has become strained as he enters adolescence. With little to sustain her outside of these two problematic relationships, Laura finds herself slipping into the habits of her happier, party-girl days… having just one more beer than she should (and then another one after that); lying about whose cigarette is sitting in the ashtray of her car. Belittled by her husband and her intrusive mother Joan (Lesley Ann Warren) and sister Kathy (Brooke Smith), she’s only just beginning to realize how truly lost she is. In this disconnected state, she’s woefully unprepared for her husband’s sudden death, the result of a heart problem that went undetected by an ER physician. Still in shock from the trauma, she allows her family to dictate two major life decisions, as they pay to send Dennis to an exclusive private school (on the dubious principle that the school’s “structure” will in some way provide for the loss of his father) and coerce Laura into filing a malpractice suit against the doctor who misdiagnosed Bob. Though she has deep reservations about the suit, shark-like attorney Mel Kaminsky (Kim Coates) critically notes that Bob’s mismanagement of their finances threatens to undermine Laura’s ability to provide for her shattered family, and suggests the lawsuit as the best means of ensuring her security. Within days, Laura finds herself an unwilling party to two massive, bizarre lies. At his new school, feeling like an outsider, Dennis wins his peers’ respect after impulsively telling them that his deceased father was a heroic fireman who died in the twin towers. While horrified, Laura grudgingly agrees not to reveal the lie in order to save her son the humiliation of exposure. Simultaneously, she finds herself increasingly uncomfortable with the progress of the lawsuit; the ER doctor might have diagnosed Bob correctly but for her husband’s evasive and uncertain account of his condition—a truth she suspects he failed to reveal to the doctor in order to cover his infidelity. As her troubles deepen and her desperation mounts, the strain of maintaining these two facades threatens to snap the fraying threads holding her life together. But Laura finds strength from an unexpected source, her brother-in-law Paul (Rob Benedict). Another devoted parent who has a similarly difficult time holding his own against the overbearing Joan and Kathy, Paul grew up with Laura, admiring her from afar, but considered her way out of his league back in high school. It is only now, during these difficult days,that Laura begins to appreciate the unconditional devotion and support that Paul provides, but is her realization too late to help her chart her course through the dire straits her life has entered?
Director: Chris Weitz Screenwriter: Eric Eason Starring: Demian Bichir, José Julián, Dolores Heredia, Joaquín Cosio, Carlos Linares Genre: Drama Plot: From the director of "About a Boy" comes "A Better Life" – a touching, poignant, multi-generational story about a father's love and the lengths a parent will go to give his child the opportunities he never had.
Director: Marshall Curry, Sam Cullman Screenwriter: Matthew Hamachek, Marshall Curry Genre: Documentary Plot Summary: On December 7th, 2005, federal agents conducted a nationwide sweep of radical environmentalists involved with the Earth Liberation Front -- an organization the FBI has called America's "number one domestic terrorism threat." "If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front" is the remarkable story of the group's rise and fall, told through the transformation and radicalization of one of its members, Daniel McGowan. Part coming-of-age tale, part cops-and-robbers thriller, the film interweaves a chronicle of McGowan facing life in prison with a dramatic investigation of the events that led to his involvement with the ELF. Using never-before-seen archival footage and intimate interviews -- with cell members and with the prosecutor and detective who were chasing them -- "If a Tree Falls" asks hard questions about environmentalism, activism, and the way we define terrorism.
Director: Josh Shelov 
