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WEINSTEIN COMPANY
Jon Heder of "Napoleon Dynamite" fame stars in "School for Scoundrels" with Billy Bob Thornton.
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Movies opening Friday:
"The Guardian": Kevin Costner plays a Coast Guard rescue swimmer who's struggling with life on the water after losing his squad in an accident. He ends up being the mentor of a hotshot swimmer (Ashton Kutcher) training for his elite military unit. (PG-13)
"Open Season": Ashton Kutcher also does voiceover work on this new animated feature about a domesticated grizzly bear (Martin Lawrence) who gets deposited in the woods during hunting season. The bear and his pal, a scrawny, one-antlered mule deer (Kutcher) rally all the other forest animals to turn the tables on an evil poacher (Gary Sinise). (PG)
"School for Scoundrels": A beleaguered New York City meter maid tries to overcome his feelings of inadequacy by enrolling in an unorthodox and top-secret confidence-building class. Billy Bob Thornton, Jon Heder, Jacinda Barrett, Michael Clarke Duncan and Horatio Sanz star. (PG-13)