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A preview of movies opening this week:
Tomorrow
"Bulletproof Monk" >> In his first film since "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," Hong Kong action legend Chow Yun Fat plays a monk who protects a scroll capable of unleashing Armageddon. But he needs to train a successor lest the scripture fall into foul hands. The top candidate is a streetwise young man, played by Seann William Scott, who trained with "Matrix" fight guru Yuen Wo-Ping to get the fight scenes right. (PG-13)
Friday
"Bend It Like Beckham" >> Coming off its debut last week at the Hawaii International Spring Film Festival, this crowd-pleasing movie is about an Indian girl in London who dreams of playing soccer professionally like her hero David Beckham -- although her family is trying to raise her in the traditional way, which means marriage and learning to cook the perfect chapati. (PG-13)"Chasing Papi" >> This is the comedic story of a Latino man in Los Angeles who's engaged to three girls -- a cocktail waitress in Miami, a wealthy New Yorker and a lawyer in Chicago -- and what happens when the trio finds out about his "triple-timing," when they decide to take revenge on him. (PG)
"Holes" >> Based on a popular children's book, this thriller is set at a Texas detention camp where a wicked warden (Sigourney Weaver) puts teenage offenders to work digging as a "character-building experience." Jon Voight and Tim Blake Nelson also star. (PG)
"Malibu's Most Wanted" >> Jamie Kennedy stars as a rich white kid from Malibu, Calif., who acts like he's a rapper from the streets. Concerned that his son is going to embarrass him during his campaign to become the state's next governor, his father and campaign manager (Ryan O'Neal and Blair Underwood) hire two actors (Taye Diggs and Anthony Anderson) to act like a coupla gangstas, kidnap the kid and drop him off in Compton to scare the ghettofied attitude out of him. (PG-13)
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