Movie: A Christmas Carol (2009)

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• Director: Robert Zemeckis
• Release Date:

  6 November 2009 (USA)

• Run Time:

  96 min

• Country: USA
• Genre: Animation , Drama , Family , Fantasy
• MPAA:

  Rated PG for scary sequences and images.

Trivia: Jim Carrey’s first project with Walt Disney Pictures.

Goofs: Anachronisms: Scenes showing London from the air incorporate numerous anachronistic features, including the Millennium Footbridge (opened 2000), the reconstructed Globe Theatre (opened 1997) and Southwark Bridge (opened 1921).

Movie: This Is It (2009)

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• Director: Kenny Ortega
• Release Date:

  28 October 2009 (USA)

• Run Time:

  USA:121 min | Argentina:112 min

• Country: USA
• Genre: Documentary , Music
• MPAA:

  Rated PG for some suggestive choreography and scary images.

Tagline: Like You've Never Seen Him Before

Trivia: In 1983, Paul Anka co-wrote with Michael Jackson the song I Never Heard, which was retitled and released in 2009 under the name This Is It. This was not noted in the film credits, although it has been confirmed by Anka on ABC’s "The View" (1997).

Movie: Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

“It is the story of one Mr. Fox and his wild-ways of hen heckling, turkey taking and cider sipping, nocturnal, instinctive adventures. He has to put his wild days behind him and do what fathers do best: be responsible. He is too rebellious. He is too wild. He is going to try “just one more raid” on the three nastiest, meanest farmers that are Boggis, Bunce and Bean. It is a tale of crossing the line of family responsibilities and midnight adventure and the friendships and awakenings of this country life that is inhabited by Fantastic Mr. Fox and his friends. Written by Cinema_Fan”

• Director: Wes Anderson
• Release Date:

  25 November 2009 (USA)

• Run Time:

  87 min

• Country: USA , UK
• Genre: Adventure , Animation , Comedy
• MPAA:

  Rated PG for action, smoking and slang humor.

Tagline: Dig the life fantastic.

Trivia: Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach created a new beginning and ending, adapting the latter part of Roald Dahl’s story (where Mr. Fox and his family and friends go on the offensive against Boggis, Bunce and Bean) as the main plot.

Movie: 2012 (2009/I)

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• Director: Roland Emmerich
• Release Date:

  13 November 2009 (USA)

• Run Time:

  158 min

• Country: USA , Canada
• Genre: Action , Drama , Thriller
• MPAA:

  Rated PG-13 for intense disaster sequences and some language.

Tagline: We Were Warned.

Trivia: The doomsday theory has sprung from a Western idea, not a Mayan. Mayans insist that the world will not end in 2012. The Mayans had a talent for astronomy, and enthusiasts have found a series of astronomical alignments they say coincide in 2012, including one that happens roughly only once every 25,800 years. Once every 25,800 years, the sun lines up with the center of our Milky Way galaxy on a winter solstice, the sun’s lowest point in the horizon. The next time that will happen is on December 21, 2012; which happens to be the same day the Mayan calender expires. In addition to the Mayan calendar, the modern doomsday myth is bolstered several ostensibly scientific reasons for a disaster. Examples include a pole shift, the “return” of Planet X or the Sun’s sinister counterpart Nemesis, a galactic, planetary, or other celestial alignment, global warming, global cooling, a massive solar flare, a new ice age, and so on. None of these have any basis in respected science. For example, the “galactic alignment” between the sun, Earth, and galactic center happens every December. The best alignment was reached in the 1990s and was accompanied by its own set of doomsday theories. Alignments since then have been increasingly poor.

Movie: The Stepfather (2009)

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• Director: Nelson McCormick
• Release Date: 16 October 2009 (USA)
• Genre: Horror , Thriller
• MPAA: Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence, disturbing images, mature thematic material and brief sensuality.

Tagline: This fall Daddy's home.

Movie: St. Trinian's (2007)

“St Trinians proudly continues to represent the unacceptable face of British education. When the new Minister of Education announces he will personally sort the place out he doesn’t realise either the enormity of the task or that the headmistress is an old flame. The school is anyway threatened with closure by their bank; with the staff clearly a waste of space the girls realise the responsibility to save the day falls on them. Perhaps a painting popularised by Scarlett Johansson might be the way out? Written by Jeremy Perkins {jwp@aber.ac.uk}”

• Release Date: 21 December 2007 (UK)
• Run Time: UK:97 min | Germany:100 min (European Film Market)
• Country: UK
• Genre: Comedy
• MPAA: Rated PG-13 for thematic elements, drug and alcohol content, sexual material and language.

Tagline: School can be a riot

Trivia: There is many references to "Pride and Prejudice" (1995). For example: Fritton’s dog is Mr D’Arcy, one of the girls mentions Colin Firth, Colin Firth dripping in water after falling into the unused fountain and Stephen Fry asking the question “Which book was originally titled “First Impressions” (A: Pride and Prejudice).

Goofs: Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the School Challenge final, the answer to the question “What is the volume of a sphere?” is given as pi r

Movie: Good Hair (2009)

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• Director: Jeff Stilson
• Run Time: 95 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Documentary , Comedy
• MPAA: Rated PG-13 for some language including sex and drug references, and brief partial nudity.

Movie: Couples Retreat (2009)

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• Director: Peter Billingsley
• Release Date: 9 October 2009 (USA)
• Run Time: 107 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Comedy
• MPAA: Rated PG-13 on appeal for sexual content and language. (originally Rated R for some sexual material.)

Tagline: It may be paradise… but it's no vacation.

Movie: The Invention of Lying (2009)

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• Release Date: 2 October 2009 (USA)
• Run Time: 100 min | Canada:99 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
• Country: USA
• Genre: Comedy
• MPAA: Rated PG-13 for language including some sexual material and a drug reference.

Tagline: In a world where everyone can only tell the truth… …this guy can lie.

Trivia: Was originally titled “This Side Of The Truth”.