FALL MOVIES: Discuss

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Highlights of Hollywood’s fall film slate. Release dates are subject to change, and some films will play in limited release.
September:
BUSH’S BRAIN: A documentary portrait of Karl Rove, chief adviser to George W. Bush, and how he shaped the president’s political career.
CELLULAR: A wrong number on his cell phone sends a man scurrying to find the kidnapped woman on the other end. With Kim Basinger.
THE COOKOUT: A new NBA star juggles an endorsement interview and a barbecue with his wacky family. The cast includes Queen Latifah, Ja Rule and Danny Glover.
CRIMINAL: A con man (John C. Reilly) and his new protege (Diego Luna) run a grift on a rich foreigner. With Maggie Gyllenhaal.
A DIRTY SHAME: A concussion turns a prude (Tracey Ullman) into a nymphomaniac in John Waters’ sex comedy. With Johnny Knoxville and Chris Isaak.
ENDURING LOVE: A hot-air balloon accident has chilling results for a would-be rescuer. With Samantha Morton, Daniel Craig, Rhys Ifans and Bill Nighy.
THE FINAL CUT: Robin Williams, Mira Sorvino and Jim Caviezel star in a sci-fi tale about a “cutter” who edits memory highlight reels for funerals.
FIRST DAUGHTER: A freshman (Katie Holmes) aims for a normal college life — despite her famous dad (Michael Keaton), who’s president of the United States.
THE FORGOTTEN: A mother (Julianne Moore) mourning her son’s death seeks the truth after her shrink (Gary Sinise) insists the boy never existed.
GRAND CHAMPION: A family flick about a boy who “cow naps” the champion steer he raised to save it from the slaughterhouse.
HEAD IN THE CLOUDS: Charlize Theron, Stuart Townsend and Penelope Cruz star in a drama about a woman living a hedonist’s life as the Second World War approaches.
INFERNAL AFFAIRS: A cop and a mobster go undercover on the opposing sides. The Hong Kong thriller is the basis for an upcoming remake by Martin Scorsese.
THE LAST SHOT: A fed (Alec Baldwin) plots to take down mobster John Gotti with a fake movie production. Matthew Broderick co-stars.
THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES: In pre-Che days, future revolutionary Ernesto Guevara hits the road with a buddy for a zestful trip through South America.
MR. 3000: An egomaniacal ballplayer (Bernie Mac) comes out of retirement to rejoin the 3,000 club after three of his hits are disqualified. With Angela Bassett.
PAPARAZZI: Mel Gibson produces a tale of a movie star seeking revenge on tabloid photographers. With Cole Hauser and Robin Tunney.
RESIDENT EVIL: APOCALYPSE: Zombie slayer Milla Jovovich has a rematch with the undead in this horror sequel.
SEPTEMBER TAPES: A documentary film crew captures harrowing footage in Afghanistan in the year after the Sept. 11 attacks.
SHAUN OF THE DEAD: A London slacker sets out to save his girlfriend from flesh-munching zombies in this British comedy hit.
SILVER CITY: John Sayles’ latest follows a not-so-eloquent gubernatorial candidate (Chris Cooper) whose campaign is beset by a pesky corpse.
SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW: Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law and Angelina Jolie battle a mad genius out to destroy the world.
THX 1138: George Lucas issues a director’s cut of his first film, 1971’s sci-fi tale of a man (Robert Duvall) trying to escape a depersonalized society.
VANITY FAIR: Reese Witherspoon steps into 19th century conniver Becky Sharp’s shoes in Mira Nair’s adaptation of the Thackeray novel.
WHEN WILL I BE LOVED: A bright young woman (Neve Campbell) coldly orchestrates vengeance on the manipulative men in her life.
WICKER PARK: A man embarks on a search to find his lost love, who vanished two years earlier. Josh Hartnett stars.
WIMBLEDON: Tennis, anyone? Love with a court star (Kirsten Dunst) fires up a so-so player (Paul Bettany) to an underdog Wimbledon quest.
THE YES MEN: A documentary following two anti-corporate pranksters posing as World Trade Organization representatives.
ZELARY: This foreign-language Academy Award nominee centres on unlikely romance between a nurse and a peasant in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.

October:
ALFIE: Jude Law stars in an update of the 1960s tale of a womanizer questioning his philandering ways. With Marisa Tomei and Susan Sarandon.
AROUND THE BEND: Four generations of men in a broken family reunite. With Christopher Walken, Josh Lucas and Michael Caine.
BEING JULIA: A 1930s London stage star (Annette Bening) seeks revenge on a young lover. Jeremy Irons co-stars.
DIG!: The top Sundance documentary winner traces the friendship and rivalry of musicians Courtney Taylor (Dandy Warhols) and Anton Newcombe (Brian Jonestown Massacre).
THE DUST FACTORY: A boy mute since his father’s death tumbles into a fantasy land where he meets a young girl who helps him face his demons.
EULOGY: An ensemble comedy featuring Zooey Deschanel, Debra Winger, Ray Romano and Piper Laurie in a dysfunctional family’s funeral gathering.
FASCINATION: Mystery, deception and tragedy unfold after a recently widowed woman (Jacqueline Bisset) announces plans to remarry. With Adam Garcia.
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS: Billy Bob Thornton stars as a high school coach in a Texas town where Friday night football is a religion.
GOING UPRIVER: THE LONG WAR OF JOHN KERRY: George Butler (Pumping Iron) presents a documentary portrait of the presidential candidate.
THE GRUDGE: Sarah Michelle Gellar stars in a fright flick about a curse that induces murderous rage before killing its host and moving on to another.
I AM DAVID: A boy treks across the continent to freedom after escaping from a 1950s labour camp in Eastern Europe. With Jim Caviezel and Joan Plowright.
I HEART HUCKABEE’S: David O. Russell (Three Kings) spins an “existential comedy” whose cast includes Dustin Hoffman, Naomi Watts and Jude Law.
LADDER 49: A rookie firefighter (Joaquin Phoenix) learns the ropes from a seasoned mentor (John Travolta).
LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE: Antoine Fuqua (King Arthur) directs a concert documentary of a blues benefit featuring B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt, India.Arie and others.
THE MACHINIST: A man (Christian Bale) who hasn’t slept in a year appears to be slipping into madness. Jennifer Jason Leigh co-stars.
PRIMER: The top dramatic winner at the Sundance festival is a time-bending thriller about tech wizards whose invention has dark consequences.
P.S.: A college admissions officer (Laura Linney) finds romance with an applicant (Topher Grace) who eerily resembles her long-dead boyfriend.
RAISE YOUR VOICE: Small-time gal Hilary Duff tries to find her voice during a summer at a Los Angeles performing arts academy.
RAY: Jamie Foxx stars as the beloved Ray Charles, whose blend of gospel, country, jazz and other styles revolutionized music.
SAW: A serial killer spins a sadistic morality play for his victims. With Cary Elwes and Danny Glover.
SHALL WE DANCE?: A businessman (Richard Gere) takes dance lessons with a beautiful teacher (Jennifer Lopez). Susan Sarandon co-stars in the remake of the Japanese film.
SHARK TALE: Will Smith, Robert De Niro, Renee Zellweger, Angelina Jolie, Martin Scorsese and Jack Black lend voices to an animated fish story.
SIDEWAYS: Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church find mid-life crises in the air during a wine-tasting road trip. Alexander Payne (About Schmidt) directs.
STAGE BEAUTY: A Restoration-era actor (Billy Crudup) specializing in women’s roles faces ruin when a ban on female performers is lifted. Claire Danes co-stars.
STEPHEN KING’S RIDING THE BULLET: A Halloween ghost story from the horror master. With Jonathan Jackson, Erika Christensen and David Arquette.
SURVIVING CHRISTMAS: Lonely guy Ben Affleck hires the couple (James Gandolfini and Catherine O’Hara) living in his boyhood home to be his family for the holidays.
TAXI: An ace New York cabbie (Queen Latifah) helps a cop (Jimmy Fallon) pursue a team of female bank robbers.
TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE: South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone do a puppet show with a cast of marionettes battling global terrorism.
TYING THE KNOT: A documentary examining the same-sex marriage debate and the lives of people affected by the issue.
UNDERTOW: A tale of vengeance and violence among the men folk of a Southern hog-farming family. With Dermot Mulroney, Josh Lucas and Jamie Bell.
VERA DRAKE: An upstanding family woman (Imelda Staunton) leads a double life as an abortionist in 1950s Britain. Mike Leigh (Secrets & Lies) directs.

November:
AFTER THE SUNSET: Idle thieves (Pierce Brosnan and Salma Hayek) are pulled back in the game by an FBI man (Woody Harrelson) who thinks their retirement’s a ruse.
ALEXANDER: Colin Farrell is the ancient Greek conqueror and Angelina Jolie’s his mom in Oliver Stone’s epic. Anthony Hopkins co-stars.
BAD EDUCATION: Pedro Almodovar (All About My Mother) spins a twisting reunion tale focused on two boys and the priest who ruined their romance.
BEYOND THE SEA: Kevin Spacey directs and stars in a film biography of pop singer Bobby Darin. John Goodman and Kate Bosworth co-star.
BIRTH: Nicole Kidman plays a widow whose engagement is disrupted when she meets a mysterious boy claiming to be her dead hubby reincarnated.
BRIDGET JONES: THE EDGE OF REASON: The lovelorn Brit (Renee Zellweger) finds her happy ending in doubt. The sequel co-stars Colin Firth and Hugh Grant.
CHRISTMAS WITH THE KRANKS: A holiday grinch (Tim Allen) decides to sit out Christmas. Jamie Lee Curtis co-stars. From John Grisham’s novel Skipping Christmas.
FINDING NEVERLAND: Johnny Depp plays J.M. Barrie in a fictionalized chronicle of the creation of Peter Pan. Kate Winslet and Dustin Hoffman co-star.
FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX: Survivors of a desert plane crash build a new craft from the wreckage of the old in this remake starring Dennis Quaid.
GUERRILLA: THE TAKING OF PATTY HEARST: A documentary recounts the Symbionese Liberation Army’s abduction of the newspaper heiress.
THE INCREDIBLES: The makers of Finding Nemo tell the tale of a retired superhero family that leaps back into action.
KINSEY: Liam Neeson stars in a film biography about the pioneering sexuality researcher. With Laura Linney.
NATIONAL TREASURE: A fortune seeker (Nicolas Cage) plots to steal the Declaration of Independence, which bears a map for treasure hidden by the founding fathers.
OUR MUSIC: Jean-Luc Godard directs this rumination on the 20th century, war, Middle East violence and cinema.
OVERNIGHT: A documentary on the rise and tumble of screenwriter Troy Duffy, whose script The Boondock Saints goes from Hollywood priority to forgotten flick.
THE POLAR EXPRESS: Robert Zemeckis adapts the holiday children’s book about a boy’s train ride to the North Pole. The animated tale features Tom Hanks’ voice.
SEED OF CHUCKY: The killer doll of Child’s Play returns as the son of Chucky resurrects his parents for a murder spree in Hollywood.
THE SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS MOVIE: The spongy guy and his pals from Bikini Bottom star in a big-screen take on the Nickelodeon cartoon.
A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT: The director (Jean-Pierre Jeunet) and star (Audrey Tautou) of Amelie reunite for the story of a woman searching for her missing fiance in the First World War.

December:
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER’S THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA: The title says it all. Gerard Butler stars as the disfigured fiend in Joel Schumacher’s musical adaptation.
THE ASSASSINATION OF RICHARD NIXON: A 1970s failure (Sean Penn) plots to kill President Nixon as a statement on societal crookedness. With Naomi Watts.
THE AVIATOR: Leonardo DiCaprio stars in Martin Scorsese’s film biography of billionaire Howard Hughes. Cate Blanchett and Kate Beckinsale co-star.
BLADE: TRINITY: The vampire killer (Wesley Snipes) teams with human hunters against the original bloodsucker, Dracula. Jessica Biel co-stars.
BORN INTO BROTHELS: The winner of Sundance’s documentary audience prize looks at children of Calcutta prostitutes hoping to escape their bleak future.
BRIDE AND PREJUDICE: Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham) retells Jane Austen’s nuptial farce as a Bollywood musical.
CLOSER: Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Clive Owen star in a drama of passion and betrayal. Mike Nichols directs.
FAT ALBERT: Hey, hey, hey! It’s a live-action and computer-animated update of Bill Cosby’s TV cartoon. Cosby co-wrote and is an executive producer.
FIERCE PEOPLE: A teen and his junkie mom (Diane Lane) struggle to straighten out their lives. Donald Sutherland co-stars.
HOTEL RWANDA: A hotel owner shelters refugees displaced by the Rwandan genocide. With Don Cheadle, Nick Nolte and Joaquin Phoenix.
HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS: Zhang Ziyi (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) stars in an another artful martial-arts saga set in ancient times.
IMAGINARY HEROES: A suburban family struggles to pick up the pieces after a son’s suicide. Sigourney Weaver and Jeff Daniels star.
LEMONY SNICKET’S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS: A nasty count (Jim Carrey) plots to swindle rich orphans in an adaptation of the children’s books.
THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU: An offbeat tale of an oceanographer (Bill Murray) tracking a shark that ate his partner. With Cate Blanchett, Owen Wilson and Angelica Huston.
MEET THE FOCKERS: Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller return for more Meet the Parents slapstick. With Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand, Teri Polo and Blythe Danner.
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE: Al Pacino and Jeremy Irons star in an update of Shakespeare’s tale of romance and vengeance.
OCEAN’S TWELVE: Steven Soderbergh and his Ocean’s Eleven gang, including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Julia Roberts, reunite for a new heist.
PROOF: Gwyneth Paltrow reteams with Shakespeare in Love director John Madden as a daughter coping with her dad’s death. Anthony Hopkins and Jake Gyllenhaal co-star.
THE SEA INSIDE: The real-life story of a paralyzed Spaniard (Javier Bardem) who fought a legal battle for his right to die. Alejandro Amenabar (The Others) directs.
SPANGLISH: Cultures clash for a couple (Adam Sandler and Tea Leoni), their new Mexican maid and her daughter. James L. Brooks directs.
SYNERGY: An ad man (Dennis Quaid) must grin and bear it when he gets a new boss (Topher Grace) half his age. Scarlett Johansson co-stars.
AN UNFINISHED LIFE: A recluse (Robert Redford) reunites with his daughter-in-law (Jennifer Lopez), whom he blames for his son’s death. With Morgan Freeman. Lasse Hallstrom directs.
THE UPSIDE OF ANGER: Joan Allen plays a single mom raising four daughters who finds romance with a neighbour (Kevin Costner), an ex-ballplayer.
THE WOODSMAN: Kevin Bacon stars in a daring role as a child molester trying to rebuild his life after prison. With Kyra Sedgwick, Benjamin Bratt and Mos Def.