In Selected Theaters This Weekend: Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire
Emerging as an Academy Award favorite is Danny Boyle’s latest, telling the twisty tale of Jamal Malik, an 18-year-old orphan from Mumbai, India. He is one question away from winning the grand prize on India’s version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” only to be arrested for suspicion of cheating. So this street kid has to give his life story, and the reason he knows the answer to each question is revealed in the telling. Critics are falling all over this film, and it’s no surprise. Boyle is a hell of a filmmaker.

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A Christmas Tale
Mathieu Almaric of Quantum of Solace stars as Henri, a man who has been exiled from his family for quite some time, until his mother (Catherine Deneuve) is in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant, and it’s possible that Henri is the only one able to be a donor.

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The Dukes
Robert Davi and Chazz Palmintieri are partners in a huge 1960s band called The Dukes who have fallen on hard times - hard enough that they’ve decided to forego all the crappy day jobs they’ve been working to make ends meet to try to pull off a gold heist from a shady dentist’s lab. Of course, as with most capers, things go to hell in a handbasket. Are The Dukes badass enough to come out the other side intact?