This Month Feature Films

November Feature Film Summaries

The Darjeeling Limited
THE DARJEELING LIMITED starring Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman is an emotional comedy about three brothers re-forging family bonds. The eldest, played by Wilson, hopes to reconnect with his two younger siblings by taking them on a train trip across the vibrant and sensual landscape of India.

Mr and Mrs. Smith
The Smiths appear to be the typical American couple: Their marriage has gone stale with boredom and apathy, but like many couples, they hold deep, dark secrets. The Smiths happen to be top-level assassins, and their next assignments target each other.

The Namesake
THE NAMESAKE is the story of the Ganguli family whose move from Calcutta to New York evokes a lifelong balancing act to meld to a new world without forgetting the old. Though parents Ashoke and Ashima (Irfan Khan, Tabu) long for the family and culture that enveloped them in India, they take great pride in the opportunities their sacrifices have afforded their children. Paradoxically, their son Gogol (Kal Penn) is torn between finding his own unique identity without losing his heritage. Even Gogol's name represents the family's journey into the unknown.

The Simpsons Movie
Homer makes a mistake at the nuclear power plant which poisons the towns water causing everyone to evacuate and an angry mob to chase Homer.

Oldboy
Oh Dae-su is an ordinary Seoul businessman with a wife and little daughter who, after a drunken night on the town, is locked up in a strange, private \”prison\” for 15 years. No one will tell him why he's there and who his jailer is, but he is kept in reasonably comfortable quarters and has a TV to keep him company. On the TV, though, he discovers that he has been framed for his wife's murder and realizes that, during one of the occasions in which he's knocked out by gas, someone has drawn blood from him and left it at the scene of the crime. The imprisonment last for 15 years until one day when Dae-su finds himself unexpectedly deposited on a grass-covered high-rise roof. He's determined to discover the mysterious enemy who had him locked up. While he's eating in a Japanese restaurant, his cell phone rings and a voice dares him to figure out why he was imprisoned.

The Savages
An irreverent, hilarious and heartbreaking story revolving around a modern American family, THE SAVAGES portrays an all-too-common dilemma: after drifting apart emotionally and geographically over the years, two siblings Wendy (Laura Linney) and Jon (Philip Seymour Hoffman) must band together to care for an elderly parent (Philip Bosco).

Rebecca
A young bride arrives at her husband's mysterious English manor and is soon haunted by the memory of his first wife. This classic movie takes a terrifying turn as the new wife tries to discover what happened to the first.

Suspicion
Johnny Aysgarth, a handsome gambler, meets shy Lina McLaidlaw on a train. She soon falls in love with him and before long, they are married. It isn’t until after their honey moon that Lina starts to know Johnny’s true character and becomes suspicious of him after his friend and business partner is mysteriously murdered.

Notorious
A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?

Gaslight
This 1944 classic won Academy Awards for Ingrid Bergman and for the splendid Victorian set designs. It is the story of a deceitful husband (Boyer) who tries to deliberately drive his wife (Bergman) insane.