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The month of April in films ... trailers? OK, just us judging books (movies) by their covers (trailers)
By DANIEL SHVARTSMAN
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LEATHERHEADS | OPENS 4.4.08
Once, football wasn't an oppressive and dominant force that bringing us such joy 18/19ths of the time. Professional football leagues went bankrupt, the games were lawless donnybrooks and all the sports reporters were men (err ... some things haven't changed). Insert George Clooney as he tries to lift his Duluth Bulldogs out of the dregs of poverty and into their rightful place in the American cultural fabric. Throw in a hotshot Princeton star (John Krasinski) and Renée Zellweger as the uppity newswoman/romantic interest, and we have the first step toward Tom and Giselle. Or something.
SMART PEOPLE | OPENS 4.11.08
A rom-com for the modern age: Dennis Quaid is an arrogant, brilliant professor who struggles as a single dad. He has a seizure that renders him unable to drive. So his adopted, bad-at-life brother, (Thomas Haden Church), comes in to chauffer and otherwise patch up Quaid's life, while also mooching a living. Soon Quaid is romancing his doctor (Sarah Jessica Parker) and forging new bonds with his daughter—a straight-A overachiever preparing to ace the SATS while running the Young Republicans (Ellen Page). Let the snazzy one-liners and millennial hipness ensue!
WHERE IN THE WORLD IS OSAMA BIN LADEN? | OPENS 4.18.08
Morgan Spurlock turns his shtick from McDonald's to Osama Bin Laden. Or he's mocking the ambitions of Sylvester Stallone's action-movie career. No, wait, he's actually going to mock the USA's fruitless search for the man. Or maybe he's doing this to mock the divide between the Western world and the Arab world to show how similar we actually are. No, check that, he's just getting a bunch of cheap but timely laughs about our country and its current neuroses. Without a Carmen Sandiego-type theme song though, it feels like he's just mocking us.
