Keep Track of all the Movies I Watch in 2008

a Philadelphia schoolteacher whose long-lost birth mother reappears at the very moment her daughter is careening into a midlife crisis. Abandoned by her husband and still grieving the death of her adoptive mother, the emotionally fragile teacher enters into a relationship with the father of one of her students just as her biological mother, an eccentric talk-show host, appears on her doorstep attempting a reconciliation.

3.5 out of 5

Uma Thurman as the guilt-ridden survivor of a harrowing, Columbine-like high-school shooting.

2.5 out of 5

a family drama detailing the efforts made by an 12-year-old girl to come to terms with her mother’s abandonment. Tara’s mother, Joleen, just can’t seem to get her life together. Her boyfriend has recently been arrested for growing marijuana, and rather than attempting to create a stable living environment for her daughter, Joleen instead places Tara in foster care before vanishing without a trace. Joleen’s brother, James isn’t exactly the picture of equilibrium, yet he does feel sympathetic toward his niece and obligated to help her though such difficult times. After breaking Tara out of foster care, James and his newly freed niece set out on the open road together. Destination: nowhere. But every road has an end, and before long James and Tara find themselves at James and Joleen’s father’s farm. James has always avoided thinking about his violent childhood, though he realizes that in order to break the vicious cycle of dysfunction that the family has fallen into he must finally confront the demons of his past. Now, as Tara begins to understand why her missing mother has lived such a tumultuous life, James prepares for the confrontation that could bring his family closer together than ever before, if it doesn’t destroy them first.

3.5 out of 5

Ever since his wife passed away, Lawrence Wetherhold has become overly acerbic and self-absorbed. He’s alienated his son and transformed his daughter into a friendless overachiever. Now, at the precise moment Lawrence thought he had finally figured it all out, his life comes crashing down all around him as he falls for a former student and his shiftless adopted brother comes knocking on the door in search of a place to stay. Though Lawrence always relied on his intelligence to get him out of life’s little jams in the past, it’s going to take quite a bit more than intellectual thinking to move past this sticky stage in his suddenly chaotic life.

Its a slow paced movie… 3 out of 5

Two strangers (Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher) find themselves hitched after a wild night of Las Vegas.

Ugh!

1.5 out of 5

As the summer sun shines down on England in the early 1980s, two boys who couldn’t be more different are brought together by a mutual love of cinema and a desire to emulate their favorite action movie icon.

3.5 out of 5

A late-’30s-era London governess hired to work in the home of a high-profile nightclub chanteuse gets a taste of the good life when she is assigned the task of sorting out the singer’s many unseemly affairs in a period comedy.

3.5 out of 5

A young girl living on a tropical island with her scientist father is left to fend for herself after her dad’s boat leaves him stranded far away and careless tour companies wreak havoc on the secluded paradise. Realizing that she will need adult assistance if she truly hopes to save her home, the resourceful youngster soon begins exchanging e-mails with the author of a book she has been reading.

3 out of 5

I know this is a series…so I’ll count it as one really long movie. :D

A clan of funeral directors buries people and digs up its own family skeletons in this alternately hilarious and disturbing weekly drama created by American Beauty screenwriter Alan Ball and was broadcasted on HBO.

3.5 out of 5

You know what this Batman movie is about! I really enjoyed it!! My favorite is the pencil trick and the semi scene.

4.5 out of 5