71. Katyn ( Post mortem. Opowiesc katynska )
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Polish
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Actors: Andrzej Chyra, Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Zmijewski, Danuta Stenka, Jan Englert, Magdalena Cielecka
72. Cell 211 ( Celda 211 )
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Daniel Monzón
Actors: Luis Tosar, Alberto Ammann, Antonio Resines, Manuel Morón, Carlos Bardem, Luis Zahera
Plot: An expectant father with a beautiful young wife, takes a job as a guard at a maximum-security prison. Taking a tour of the facility prior to his first day, a riot ensues. Finding himself trapped in the prison under lock-down with no guards around, he is forced to portray himself as a new prisoner to avoid being killed as a prison guard. After making some smart decisions, he is taken under the wings of the rioters and prison gang leaders. He faces a race against time to settle the riot peacefully while trying to understand his place as he starts to align more with his new prisoners than the law.
73. Black Dynamite
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Scott Sanders
Actors: Michael Jai White, Mykelti Williamson, Nicole Sullivan, James McManus, Tommy Davidson, Roger Yuan
Plot: Black Dynamite is an ex-cia agent that is going to make the streets run
red when his brother overdoes on drugs. He uses his kung-fu to avenge his
death and kill all the people responsible.
74. The Proposal
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Anne Fletcher
Actors: Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson, Betty White, Denis O'Hare
Plot: Margaret Tate is a hard-nosed executive who is brutal with her assistant. She also happens to be a Canadian whose Visa is about to be revoked. Taking matters into her own hands, she forces her assistant to marry her in order to stay in America.
75. Hedgehog, The ( hérisson, Le )
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mona Achache
Actors: Josiane Balasko, Garance Le Guillermic, Togo Igawa, Anne Brochet, Ariane Ascaride, Wladimir Yordanoff
Plot: A quite serious but morose 11-year-old who decides that she will not live beyond her 12th birthday. During the year, she makes observations about life and the people around her. As the final date approaches, she finds kindred spirits in a janitor and an elegant neighbor that may lead her to rethink her outlook on life.
76. Sunshine Cleaning
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Christine Jeffs
Actors: Amy Adams, Alan Arkin, Emily Blunt, Kevin Chapman, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Eric Christian Olsen
Plot: In order to send her son to a private school a mother, along with her unreliable sister, start a biohazard removal/ crime scene clean-up service.
77. The Time Traveler's Wife
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Robert Schwentke
Actors: Eric Bana, Ron Livingston, Rachel McAdams, Michelle Nolden, Alex Ferris, Hailey McCann
Plot: A story about a librarian named Henry who time travels involuntarily and his relationship with a woman named Claire. Based on the book by Audrey Niffenegger.
78. It's Complicated
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Nancy Meyers
Actors: Robert Adamson, Meryl Streep, John Krasinski, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin, Hunter Parrish
Plot: A woman begins an affair with her ex-husband, despite the fact he's now married to the woman he had left her for. To complicate matters, she's also drawn to a potential new love.
79. My Sister's Keeper
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Actors: Alec Baldwin, Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Joan Cusack, Jason Patric, Sofia Vassilieva
Plot: Young Anna Fitzgerald has spent her entire life at the operating table, at the hospital, at the clinic but not because she is sick, but because she is a genetic match to her older sister who needs her bone morrow to fight the leukemia in her body. Now that she is older, she questions this life leading to a decision that may tear the family apart.
80. Sin Nombre
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Cary Fukunaga
Actors: Karl Braun, Paulina Gaitan, Diana Garcia, Damayanti Quintanar, Guillermo Villegas
Plot: When a Honduran teenager reunites with her father with hopes of realizing her dream to reach America. The promise of a better life comes at a price.
