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Kit Kittredge: An American Girl

Bright, inquisitive and generous, Kit Kittredge is a natural born leader. But her happy childhood is abruptly interrupted when her father loses his car dealership and must leave Cincinnati to look for work. Kit and her mother Margaret are left to manage on their own, growing vegetables, selling eggs and even taking in an assortment of boarders including an itinerant magician, a vivacious dance instructor on the prowl for a husband and a zany mobile librarian. When a crime spree sweeps Cincinnati...

Adulthood

A powerful sequel to the acclaimed 'Kidulthood'. Set in the backdrop of an unseen London underbelly where sex is currency and drugs are easy to find, we pick up six years after the fatal killing of Trife to analyse Sam Peel's rehabilitation into society. 'Adulthood' follows Sam around the streets where he once grew only to fear the actions he did in the past as he must come to terms with having to deal with the people he hurt the most and stop another mindless killing before it's...

Batman - The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight is an upcoming 2008 American superhero film based on the fictional DC Comics character Batman. The film is a sequel to 2005's Batman Begins, which rebooted the Batman film series after an eight-year hiatus. Christopher Nolan returns as the director, and Christian Bale reprises the lead role. Batman's primary conflicts in the film come from his fight against the Joker (Heath Ledger) and his strained friendship with district attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart). For the film...

Atonement

Atonement - Certificate 15 Atonement opens in England in 1935, on the hottest day of the year. In the looming shadow of World War II Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan, later played by Romola Garai) and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous Victorian Gothic Mansion. As the family gathers for the weekend the combination of the oppressive heat and long suppressed emotions coming to the surface create an ominous sense of threat and danger. Briony, a fledgeling writer, is a girl...