Awake – A horrifying concept to be sure, Awake stars Hayden Christensen
as a man who suffers anesthetical awareness – a condition where
anesthesia wears off or fails during surgery and the patient feels
everything the doctors are doing but is paralyzed and powerless to do
anything. Jessica Alba costars as the unfortunate patient’s wife.
The Savages (In selected theaters) – Two of the finest actors working today, Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman star as estranged siblings who reestablish a bond when they’re forced to care for their ailing father.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (In selected theaters) – Based on the true story of Jean-Dominique Bauby, the successful editor of French Elle, whose life and health changes in an instant when he suffers a debilitating stroke. His body destroyed but mind intact he forges relationships with several inspiring women to learn about what it means to live and be human.
Badland (In selected theaters) – After returning from a tour of duty in Iraq a U.S. soldier finds he can’t cope with reality and embarks on a violent trip across the country.
Undoing (In selected theaters) – A year after his disappearance from Los Angeles’s Koreatown neighbourhood a man named Samuel with a dark past returns with the intention of putting things right.
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