Friday, December 18, 2009

Now Showing—Wood Theater for Dec. 18

A Christmas Carol - Tonight, 6 p.m.; Saturday, Sunday and Monday, 3:30 p.m.; Tuesday and Wednesday, 5:30 p.m. (Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman) The ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet-to-Come take miserly Ebenezer Scrooge on an eye-opening journey revealing truths he is reluctant to face, which require him to open his heart to understand and undo years of ill will before it’s too late. Rated PG (scary sequences and images). 1 hr 38 mins.  

This Is It - Tonight, 8:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 6 p.m. (Michael Jackson) Michael Jackson’s final film is a compilation of rehearsal, behind-the-scenes and other footage of the pop legend preparing for the 100-show concert series, which was to be held in London. Rated PG (suggestive choreography and scary images). 2 hrs 31 mins.

The Box - Friday, 8:30 p.m. (Cameron Diaz, Frank Langella) A suburban couple with a young child receives a simple wooden box as a gift. They face a moral dilemma and the true nature of their humanity when they find out the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million with the press of a button, while simultaneously causing the death of another human being somewhere in the world. Rated PG-13 (thematic elements, some violence and disturbing images). 1 hr 53 mins.

Amelia - Monday, 5:30 p.m. and Wednesday, 3 p.m. (Hilary Swank, Richard Gere) A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for being the first woman to pilot a plane solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world. Rated PG (sensuality, language, thematic elements, smoking). 1 hr 51 mins.

The Men Who Stare At Goats - Monday, 8 p.m. and Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. (George Clooney, Ewan McGregor) A reporter, trying to lose himself in the romance of war after his marriage fails, gets more than he bargains for when he meets a special forces agent who reveals the existence of a secret, psychic military unit whose goal is to end war as we know it. The founder of the unit has gone missing and the trail leads to another psychic soldier who has distorted the mission to serve his own ends. Rated R (language, some drug content and brief nudity). 1 hr 34 mins.

Where the Wild Things Are - Tuesday, 3:30 p.m. (Max Records, Benicio Del Toro) Misunderstood at home and at school, mischievous Max leaves home to become the leader of the Wild Things and promises to create a kingdom where everyone will be happy. But he soon finds that being the king is not as easy as he thought. Rated PG (mild thematic elements, adventure action, and brief language). 1 hr 34 mins.

The Fourth Kind (PG-13) - Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. (Milla Jovovich, Elias Koteas) A thriller set in modern-day Nome, Alaska, where, since the 1960s, a disproportionate number of the population has been reported missing every year. Despite multiple FBI investigations of the region, the truth has never been discovered. When a psychologist begins videotaping sessions with traumatized patients she unwittingly discovers some of the most disturbing evidence of alien abduction ever documented. Rated PG-13 (violent/disturbing images, some terror, thematic elements, sexuality). 1 hr 38 mins.

Upcoming: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (PG) - Dec. 26, 3:30 p.m.; The Fourth Kind (PG-13) - Dec. 26, 5:30 p.m.; The Men Who Stare At Goats (PG-13) - Dec. 26, 8 p.m.; Amelia - Dec. 27, 3 p.m.; Where the Wild Things Are (PG) - Dec. 27, 5:30 p.m.; Planet 51 (PG) - Dec. 28, 29 and 30, 4 p.m.; 2012 (PG-13) - Dec. 28, 29 and 30, 6 p.m.

Closed - Dec. 24, 25, 31 and Jan. 1.