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"Changing Lanes" >> Ben Affleck and Samuel L. Jackson star in this action-thriller about an arrogant lawyer and a beaten-down businessman who accidentally get each other's attaché case after getting into a fender-bender in Manhattan. The resulting confusion, disagreements and malice begins to escalate to terrifying levels, culminating in an all-out battle between them (R).
"Frailty" >> Told in flashback, actor Bill Paxton's directorial debut concerns a young boy who must decide whether his widowed father is a good guy or a bad guy after suddenly claiming he was visited by an angel overnight and given a mission to destroy demons disguised as normal people. Paxton and Matthew McConaughey star (R).
"Human Nature" This is the latest project from writer-filmmaker Charlie Kaufman ("Being John Malkovich"). An obsessive scientist (Tim Robbins) and a female naturalist (Patricia Arquette) discover a man (Rhys Ifans) born and raised in the wild. A power struggle ensues when the scientist tries to train the wild man in the ways of the world, and the naturalist fights to preserve his simian past (R).
"The Sweetest Thing" >> Raunchy female comedy written by "South Park" alumnus Nancy Pimental stars Cameron Diaz and Christina Applegate. Diaz plays a sexy single woman who unexpectedly meets her perfect match one night while hanging out with her girlfriends. When she finds out the next day that he's left town, Diaz and Applegate set out to find him (R).
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