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This week in theaters
When his girlfriend Nadine (Pheline Roggan) flies off to China for an extended stay, Zinos decides to follow, and so he asks his brother, Ilias (Moritz Bleibtreu), who has just gotten out of jail, to take care of the restaurant while he’s away. However, Ilias drags all of Hamburg’s trouble into the restaurant. Zinos returns after Nadine pledges her heart to another and discovers his diner has turned into a mess. Hoping to put things back in order, Zinos hires a gourmet chef (Birol Ünel), but will this help save his restaurant?
Directed by: Fatih Akın
Genre: comedy
Cast: Adam Bousdoukos, Moritz Bleibtreu, Birol Ünel, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Jan Fedder, Peter Lohmeyer
‘Law Abiding Citizen’
Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) is an upstanding family man whose wife and daughter are brutally murdered during a home invasion. When the killers are caught, Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx), a hotshot Philadelphia prosecutor, is assigned to the case. Nick offers one of the suspects a light sentence in exchange for testifying against his accomplice. Fast forward 10 years. The man who got away with murder is found dead, and Clyde Shelton coolly admits his guilt. Then he issues a warning to Nick: Either fix the flawed justice system that failed his family, or key players in the trial will die. Soon Shelton follows through on his threats, orchestrating from his jail cell a string of spectacularly diabolical assassinations that can be neither predicted nor prevented. Philadelphia is gripped with fear as Shelton’s high-profile targets are slain one after another and the authorities are powerless to halt his reign of terror. Only Nick can stop the killing, and to do so he must outwit this brilliant sociopath in a harrowing contest of wills in which even the smallest misstep means death. With his own family now in Shelton’s crosshairs, Nick finds himself in a desperate race against time, facing a deadly adversary who seems always to be one step ahead.
Directed by: Gary Gray
Genre: thriller
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler, Leslie Bibb, Bruce McGill, Colm Meaney, Viola Davis, Michael Irby, Regina Hall
‘Cheri’
Lea de Lonval (Michelle Pfeiffer) realizes that the time has come for her to retire as Paris’s most envied seductress of the rich and famous. After all, though she’s still breathtaking, she’s not getting any younger. Just as she starts wondering what her future holds, along comes her archrival Charlotte Peloux (Kathy Bates), a notoriously manipulative gossip, with an unusual proposition. It seems that Charlotte’s 19-year-old son -- a bon vivant nicknamed Cheri (Rupert Friend) -- is gorgeous, charming and a complete disappointment to her. Fed up with his petulance, Charlotte slyly suspects Lea can knock some sense into the boy with her worldly ways. But Lea does far more than that, and six years later she and Cheri are still living together in a most outrageous fashion. Naturally, they know this state of affairs can’t go on forever. But when Charlotte Peloux returns to match Cheri to a girl his own age for marriage and break up their adventuresome tryst, no one is prepared for what truly lies beneath their frivolous affair.
Directed by: Stephen Frears
Genre: drama
Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Friend, Kathy Bates, Felicity Jones, Harriet Walter, Anita Pallenberg
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