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A preview of movies opening this weekend:
"Brother Bear": Disney makes another go at hand-drawn animation with this tale set in the Pacific Northwest before the invasion of the white man. Joaquin Phoenix voices the American Indian hunter who, while trying to avenge his brother's death at the hand (paw?) of a mother bear protecting her cubs, is transformed by the spirits of the forest into the very thing that he sought to slay -- a bear. For comic relief, Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas riff on their popular McKenzie brothers characters, this time as a pair of Canadian-accented moose. (G)
"The Human Stain": Based on the Philip Roth bestseller, Anthony Hopkins plays a light-skinned African-American college professor who's spent his life passing as white and Jewish. After he's accused of uttering a racial slur in the classroom, his personal and professional lives shatter, but he begins his dynamic resurrection through two new relationships: a friendship with a writer (Gary Sinise) intrigued with his story and a scandalous affair with a local cleaning woman half his age (Nicole Kidman) who's being stalked by her psychopathic ex-husband (Ed Harris). (R)
"In the Cut": Jane Campion ("The Piano") wrote and directed this adaptation of a novel about an emotionally stunted writing professor (Meg Ryan) whose chance involvement in a murder case in her neighborhood involving a beautiful young woman leads to an erotic liaison with the detective (Mark Ruffalo) investigating the case. (R)
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