Sundance Film Festival 2010

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Jack Goes Boating Jack Goes Boating
Jack Goes Boating and It's A Wonderful Afterlife
Abel (Country: Mexico; Year: 2010; Director: Diego Luna; Writer: Diego Luna and Augusto Mendoza; Stars: Christopher Ruíz-Esparza, Karina Gidi, Gerardo Ruíz-Esparza, José María Yazpik)
A peculiar young boy, blurring reality and fantasy, assumes the responsibilities of a family man in his father's absence.
World Premiere
Cane Toads: The Conquest (Cane Toads 3D) (Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Mark Lewis; Writer: Mark Lewis; Stars: Neil Young), Official Site
In 3D, Mark Lewis explores one of Australia's greatest environmental catastrophes as he follows the unstoppable march of the cane toad across the continent.
World Premiere
The Company Men (Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: John Wells; Writer: John Wells; Stars: Ben Affleck, Kevin Costner, Maria Bello, Tommy Lee Jones, Craig T. Nelson, Chris Cooper, Rosemarie DeWitt, John Doman, Liam Ferguson, Tonye Patano, Dana Eskelson, Kent Shocknek, Scott Winters, Cady Huffman, Tom Kemp), Official Site
Three corporate executives struggle to come to terms with losing their jobs.
World Premiere
Cyrus (Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass; Writer: Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass; Stars: John C Reilly, Marisa Tomei, Jonah Hill, Catherine Keener.), Official Site, Trailer
A recently divorced guy meets a new woman... and her son.
World Premiere
The Extra Man (Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini; Writer: Robert Pulcini, Jonathan Ames, Shari Springer Berman; Stars: Katie Holmes, John C Reilly, Paul Dano, Kevin Kline, Alicia Goranson, Patti D'Arbanville, Cathy Moriarty, Jason Butler Harner, Marian Seldes, Celia Weston, Alex Burns, Justis Bolding, John Leighton, Rafael Sardina, Kevin Scullin)
An aspiring author forms an unusual friendship with an oddball older playwright.
World Premiere
Cane Toads: The Conquest Cane Toads: The Conquest
Cane Toads: The Conquest and The Extra Man
Get Low (Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Aaron Schneider; Writer: C Gaby Mitchell, Chris Provenzano, based on a story by Aaron Schneider, Scott Seeke; Stars: Bill Murray, Robert Duvall, Lucas Black, Sissy Spacek, Gerald McRaney, Bill Cobbs, Andrea Powell, Shawn Knowles, Tomasz Karolak, Lori Beth Edgeman, Scott Cooper, Blerim Destani, Rebecca Grant, Jade Moser, Steven Stadler)
Heatwarming tale of redemption, partially based on the true story of a hermit who threw his own funeral... while he was still alive.
US Premiere
It's A Wonderful Afterlife (Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Gurinder Chadha; Writer: Paul Mayeda Berges, Gurinder Chadha; Stars: Goldy Notay, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Shabana Azmi, Sally Hawkins, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Shaheen Khan, Zoë Wanamaker, Jimi Mistry, Don Warrington), Official Site, Trailer
A middle class suburban widow would kill to see her daughter married - literally!
Jack Goes Boating (Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Philip Seymour Hoffman; Writer: Bob Glaudini; Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Ryan, John Ortiz, Daphne Rubin-Vega), Official Site
Love and friendship in the life of a limo driver and his pals.
World Premiere
The Killer Inside Me (Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Michael Winterbottom; Writer: John Curran, Michael Winterbottom, based on the novel by Jim Thompson,; Stars: Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Simon Baker, Elias Koteas), Official Site, Trailer
Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small Texan town - patient, polite and well liked... until he starts killing people.
World Premiere
Nowhere Boy (Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Sam Taylor-Wood; Writer: Matt Greenhalgh, based on the book by Julia Baird; Stars: Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Anne-Marie Duff, Thomas Brodie Sangster, David Morrissey, David Threlfall, Josh Bolt, Andrew Buchan), Trailer
Biopic of John Lennon's younger years.
International Premiere
The Runaways The Runaways
The Runaways and The Killer Inside Me
Please Give (Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Nicole Holofcener; Writer: Nicole Holofcener; Stars: Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Rebecca Hall, Catherine Keener, Sarah Steele)
Ensemble comedy drama explores the angst of middle-class New Yorkers.
World Premiere
The Runaways (Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Floria Sigismondi; Writer: Floria Sigismondi; Stars: Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning, Scout Taylor-Compton, Michael Shannon, Alia Shawkat, Tatum O'Neal)
Rock biopic.
World Premiere
The Shock Doctrine (Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Mat Whitecross, Michael Winterbottom; Writer: Naomi Klein; Stars: Naomi Klein)
Examination of the rise of "disaster capitalism" - a doctrine which enables governments and firms to exploit the economies of countries affected by wars, terrorist attacks or natural catastrophes.
North American Premiere
Twelve (Country: US, France; Year: 2010; Director: Joel Schumacher; Writer: Jordan Melamed, Nick McDonell; Stars: Chace Crawford, Emma Roberts, Kiefer Sutherland, 50 Cent, Zoë Kravitz)
A chronicle of the highs and lows of privileged kids on Manhattan's Upper East Side involving sex, drugs and murder.
World Premiere
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