411 Weekend Movies Preview 10.18.02: The Ring, Formula 51, More
Posted by Ashish on 10.18.2002
Get ready for the weekend as 411 Movies Zone takes a look at all the new major releases hitting a theater near you today...
The following movies are scheduled to open today:
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The Ring Genre: Horror/Thriller/Mystery
Director: Gore Verbinski
Rating: PG-13
Starring: Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, Brian Cox, and David Dorfman
View the movie trailer at the official movie website for The Ring, Ring-TheMovie.com.
Plot: A mysterious video tape is killing off anyone who watches it. Whenever the victim watches it, the phone rings, telling them they have only one week to live. A young reporter named Rachel is investigating these events, but after she and her small son watch the tape, it becomes a race against time to find out why the tape is killing everyone and how it could be stopped. (IMDB)
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Formula 51 Genre: Action
Director: Ronny Yu
Rating: R
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Nigel Whitmey, Robert Jezek, Meat Loaf, and Emily Mortimer
Plot: Elmo McElroy (Jackson) is a streetwise American master chemist who heads to England to sell his special new formula - a powerful, blue concoction guaranteed to take you to 'the 51st state.' McElroy's new product delivers a feeling 51 times more powerful than any thrill, any pleasure, any high in history. But his plans for a quick, profitable score go comically awry when he gets stuck in Liverpool with an unlikely escort (Carlyle) and his ex-girlfriend (Mortimer) and becomes entangled in a bizarre web of double-dealing and double-crosses. (IMDB)
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Abandon Genre: Drama/Thriller
Director: Stephen Gaghan
Rating: PG-13
Starring: Katie Holmes, Benjamin Bratt, Charlie Hunnam, and Melanie Lynskey
View the movie trailer at the official movie website for Abandon, AbandonMovie.com.
Plot: Catherine Burke (Holmes) is under pressure. She faces exams, completion of her thesis, and a competitive interview process, all of which is compounded when a police detective, Wade Handler (Bratt), begins investigating the two year-old disappearance of her boyfriend, Embry Langan (Hunnam), a young man whose memory haunts and obsesses her. As the investigation continues, Catherine is forced to choose between her past passions and new possibilities, even as Handler is discovering surprising new facts about Embry and his possible connection to another disappearance from campus. (IMDB)
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Auto Focus Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Schrader
Rating: R
Starring: Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Maria Bello, Rita Wilson, and Ron Leibman
View the movie trailer at the official movie website for Auto Focus, AutoFocusMovie.com.
Plot: Capitalizing on his fame as the star of "Hogan's Heroes," Bob Crane (Greg Kinnear) dove into the freewheeling spirit of the 60s and 70s with relish, having affairs with numerous women. Eventually, Crane teamed up with video technician John Carpenter to document his exploits, an association that may very well have led to his murder in a Scottsdale, Arizona motel room in 1978, which remains officially unsolved to this day. (IMDB)
