Dec. 18 thru 24

Bad Santa (R)
A con man (Billy Bob Thornton) masquerades as Santa Claus to knock off shopping malls until he meets an 8-year-old boy who reminds him about the meaning of Christmas.
Now Showing: Tinseltown USA, Foothills 12, Wynnsong 16, Knoxville Center 10, Halls Cinema 7, Farragut Towne Square

Brother Bear (G)
Disney's newest animated feature follows the adventures of Kenai (voiced by Joaquin Phoenix), a bear-hunting human changed into a bear by the Great Spirits. He finds a fellow lost soul and traveler in bear cub Coda, who wants to find his mom at the annual Salmon Run. This flick's humorous sidekicks are two moose named Rutt and Tuke (voiced by Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis a.k.a. Bob and Doug McKenzie of SCTV).
Now Showing: Wynnsong 16,

Dr. Seuss: The Cat In The Hat (PG)
Two kids with nothing to do on a dreary day get a visit from the Cat in the Hat (Mike Myers), a clever, rhyming feline who encourages the kids to do things of questionable wisdom while their mother is out. Sean Hayes (Jack on Will & Grace) is the voice of the disapproving fish.
Now Showing: Carmike 10, Tinseltown USA, Halls Cinema 7, West Town Mall, Foothills 12, Farragut Towne Square

Duplex (PG-13)
Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore are a cute New York couple who buy their dream home and think they're set to live happily every after. But the duplex contains something they didn't bargain for: a seemingly harmless old lady (Eileen Essell) who starts to torment them in her own special way. Danny DeVito directs the slapstick comedy.
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Elephant (R)
Set in a high school in Portland, Ore., the fictional and partly improvised drama by Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting) follows a group of teenage boys in the midst of a school shooting spree modeled on the Columbine massacre.
Now Showing: Downtown West

Elf (PG)
As a baby, Buddy (Will Farrell) was mistakenly taken to the North Pole and raised by elves in Santa's Workshop. All grown up and clearly not an elf, he returns to New York City to find his natural father (James Caan), a workaholic who thinks Buddy is a freak. With his charming naiveté, Buddy tries to convince mean-spirited New Yorkers, including his 10-year-old half-brother, about the spirit of Christmas. Directed by Jon Favreau (Swingers, Made).
Now Showing: Wynnsong 16, Tinseltown USA, Halls Cinema 7, The Ritz, Foothills 12, Farragut Towne Square

The Flower of Evil (NR)
Claude Chabrol takes another look at the dark underbelly of the French bourgeoisie in a thriller less Hitchcock than Altman. After graduating from college in Chicago, Francois (Benoit Magimel) returns to his family's Bordeaux estate to face their history of incest, Nazi sympathizing, political intrigue and murder—all revealed when anonymous notes start appearing at the house. The modern-day story intertwines with the events of 1944.
Now Showing: Downtown West

Freaky Friday (PG)
Disney updates its 1976 live-action comedy with Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsey Lohan starring as the mom and daughter who switch bodies for a day. They argue a lot and can't fathom seeing through the other's eyes—until a fortune cookie curse causes the big switcheroo.
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The Gospel of John (PG-13)
John Goldsmith's screenplay tells the story of Jesus of Nazareth through the eyes and Biblical text of disciple John. The dialogue is taken straight from the Good News Bible, and Christopher Plummer narrates the film. Henry Ian Cusick plays a charismatic and intense Jesus. Directed by Philip Saville.
Now Showing: Carmike 10

Gothika (R)
Criminal psychologist Dr. Miranda Grey (Halle Berry) is involved in a severe car accident after an encounter with a strange young girl. Miranda wakes up from the crash in the psychiatric ward of a penitentiary to discover that her husband has been murdered. With no memory of the night except for flashbacks of the girl, Miranda believes that she has been possessed and must solve the mystery behind her husband's gruesome death.
Now Showing: Wynnsong 16, Knoxville Center, Foothills 12

The Haunted Mansion (PG)
Inspired by the Walt Disney World theme park ride, the family-friendly movie features Eddie Murphy as a workaholic real estate agent who visits a haunted house with his family during a job interview and is stranded with its 999 ghosts.
Now Showing: Tinseltown USA, Foothills 12, Halls Cinema 7, Farragut Towne Square, West Town Mall, Carmike 10

Honey (PG-13)
Honey Daniels (Jessica Alba) is a promising young dancer who steps out of her parents' expectations. She moves to the urban center to absorb the sounds of hip-hop, working as a bartender at night and perfecting her moves on the dancefloor. When she gets her big break choreographing videos for rap stars, will fame be all she ever dreamed of, or more than she can handle?
Now Showing: Carmike 10, Foothills 12, Tinseltown USA, West Town Mall, Farragut Towne Square

The Human Stain (R)
The life of respected college professor Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins) is turned upside down when he's accused of racism, starts an affair with a cleaning lady (Nicole Kidman) and challenges her wild-eyed ex-husband (Ed Harris). This avalanche of unfortunate events serves to uncover the lie on which Silk has based his entire life. Based on the novel by Philip Roth.
Now Showing: Downtown West

Intolerable Cruelty (PG-13)
Miles Massey (George Clooney) is a confident divorce lawyer facing his toughest challenge yet: His client Rex Rexroth (Edward Herrman) is a very rich philanderer being divorced by his blameless wife Marylin (Catherine Zeta-Jones). Ever the winning lawyer, Massey attempts to end her gold-digging ways, but he's stymied when he finds himself falling for her. Sparks fly! Guest starring Geoffrey Rush and Billy Bob Thornton.
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Kill Bill—Vol. 1 (R)
Quentin Tarantino writes and directs this first installment of a two-part film about a sword-wielding former assassin (Uma Thurman) who wakes up from a coma and sets out to get revenge on her former coworkers—a formidable band of international assassins played by Lucy Liu, Daryl Hannah, Vivica A. Fox and Michael Madsen led by David Carradine—who tried to kill her when she wanted to leave the team.
Now Showing: Downtown West

The Last Samurai (R)
When former Civil War captain Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise) loses the passion and honor that made him a hero in battle, he finds a chance for salvation when he's hired to train Japan's first modern army. But even as he promotes the American military way, he becomes enamored with the Samurai and their values.
Now Showing: Carmike 10, Foothills 12, Tinseltown USA, West Town Mall, Farragut Towne Square, Halls Cinema 7

Looney Tunes (PG)
Daffy Duck finally gets fed up with that spotlight-hog Bugs Bunny and leaves the Warner Bros. lot along with Brendan Fraser, a recently fired stuntman. They head to the natural choices for a big galoot and a cartoon duck—Las Vegas and Africa—and are pursued by WB executive Jenna Elfman and Bugs. Throw in a mythical Blue Diamond and the rest of the animated WB gang, and you have hijinks guaranteed to amuse an 8-year-old.
Now Showing: Wynnsong 16

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (PG-13)
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Now Showing: Carmike 10, West Town Mall, Farragut Towne Square, Foothills 12, Tinseltown USA, Halls Cinema 7, The Ritz

Love Actually (R)
Richard Curtis, the writer of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and Bridget Jones Diary takes his stab at directing the ensemble cast romantic comedy. The stories of several pairs intertwine: Hugh Grant is the new British Prime Minister who falls for his young assistant; the marriage of Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman is threatened by his flirtatious assistant; and Colin Firth's writer finds love with a Portuguese woman in the South of France. And Billy Bob Thornton plays the U.S. President!
Now Showing: Wynnsong 16, Farragut Towne Square, Tinseltown USA, Knoxville Center

Love Don't Cost A Thing (PG)
In this remake of 1987's Can't Buy Me Love, Nick Cannon plays the unpopular geek who fixes a cheerleader's car so that she'll pretend to be his girlfriend and he'll be popular. But will a new hairdo, stylin' clothes and a taste of social acceptance make Alvin forget his priorities?
Now Showing: Wynnsong 16, Farragut Towne Square, Foothills 12, Knoxville Center, Tinseltown USA

Master & Commander (PG-13)
Based on the epic historical novels by Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander stars uber-masculine Russell Crowe as Lucky Jack Aubrey, the captain of the H.M.S. Surprise, a ship of the British Navy during the Napoleonic wars. When the enemy ship Acheron attacks the ship and many of his crew are injured, Aubrey must decided whether to stay and fight an impossible foe or head home. Paul Bettany, who co-started with Crowe in A Beautiful Mind, plays the ship's doctor and Aubrey's advisor Stephen Maturin. Directed by Peter Weir.
Now Showing: Carmike 10, West Town Mall, Farragut Towne Square, Foothills 12, Downtown West

The Missing (R)
Maggie (Cate Blanchett) is a hard-working woman devoted to her land and her two daughters. When her father, Jones (Tommy Lee Jones) arrives after abandoning her 20 years prior, she resents his sudden reentry into her life. But when one of her daughters is kidnapped, she must turn to him for help.
Now Showing: Tinseltown USA, Foothills 12, Wynnsong 16, Knoxville Center 10, Farragut Towne Square

Mona Lisa Smile (PG-13)
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Now Showing: Carmike 10, West Town Mall, Farragut Towne Square, Foothills 12, Tinseltown USA

Mystic River (R)
Three childhood friends from the rough, blue-collar streets of a Boston neighborhood reunite under tense circumstances. Jimmy (Sean Penn) is an ex-con whose teenage daughter is murdered. Sean (Kevin Bacon) is a cop investigating the case with his partner (Laurence Fishburne). And Dave (Tim Robbins) is falling apart as he becomes a suspect in the crime. Directed by Clint Eastwood, written by Brian Helgeland, and based on the novel by Dennis Lehane.
Now Showing: Downtown West

Party Monster (NR)
Michael Alig (Macaulay Culkin) and James St. James (Seth Green) move from the Midwest to New York City only to become consumed by drugs and the club scene. The two are employed as party promoters until Alig is convicted of murdering a drug dealer.
Now Showing: Downtown West

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (PG-13)
The swashbuckling Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) must stop a ship of ghost pirates before they can break a curse with the blood of an innocent young girl who hates corsets.
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Radio (PG)
A mentally challenged young man nicknamed Radio (Cuba Gooding Jr.) is taken under the wing of high school football coach Harold Jones (Ed Harris). Townies think he's distracted from his coaching duties; his family wonders why he's not spending time with them. Ultimately, Radio teaches the coach, his family and the whole town a lesson about caring. Inspired by a true story.
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Runaway Jury (PG-13)
Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman meet on screen for the first time in the adaptation of John Grisham's courtroom drama gone wild. Hackman is a "jury consultant" who makes sure that juries are rigged in his rich clients' favor. Hoffman is the lawyer of a young widow suing a powerful corporation. But other forces threaten to sway the jury: juror John Cusack and a mysterious woman (Rachel Weisz) who attempts to blackmail Hackman.
Now Showing: Wynnsong 16

Scary Movie 3 (PG-13)
The third Scary Movie takes aim at The Ring, crop circles, Michael Jackson and other easy targets for spoofing.
Now Showing: Carmike 10, Knoxville Center

School of Rock (PG-13)
Jack Black is a guitarist named Dewey who gets kicked out of his band just a few weeks before the Battle of the Bands. He could really use the $20,000 prize because he's broke and owes rent to his substitute teacher roommate Ned (played by the film's screenwriter Mike White). Desperate for a job, Dewey impersonates Ned to substitute in a fifth-grade classroom. The kids and their principal (Joan Cusack) are in for a rock 'n' roll education they never imagined. Directed by Richard Linklater (Slackers, Dazed & Confused, Waking Life).
Now Showing: Movies 7

Something's Got To Give (PG-13)
An aging womanizer (Jack Nicholson) vacations in the Hamptons with his much younger girlfriend and has a Viagra-triggered heart attack. When his girlfriend returns to New York, he is nursed back to health by her divorced mom (Diane Keaton) and the doctor (Keanu Reeves) who saved his life. A love triangle ensues, leaving Jack to consider his attachment to the younger ladies and Diane to choose between two paramours.
Now Showing: Wynnsong 16, Farragut Towne Square, Foothills 12, Knoxville Center, Tinseltown USA

Stuck on You (PG-13)
Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear star as conjoined twins, one of whom has dreams of making it big in Hollywood. They're cast on a sitcom with Cher, and the show becomes a hit.
Now Showing: Wynnsong 16, Farragut Towne Square, Foothills 12, Knoxville Center, Tinseltown USA

The Station Agent (R)
Fin (Peter Dinklage) is a dwarf who prefers to retreat from the stares of others and be a loner. He follows his one passion—trains— to a nowhere town in rural New Jersey, where he has inherited an abandoned depot. Despite his efforts to isolate himself, he makes an unlikely connection with Olivia (Patricia Clarkson), an artist, and Joe (Bobby Cannavale), a hot dog salesman who likes to talk.
Now Showing: Downtown West

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (R)
The 1974 cult classic gets a 2003 makeover with modern, belly-baring hotties like Jessica Biel (of TV's Seventh Heaven). Five young people come across a gaunt girl who claims her family has been murdered. Naturally, they follow her lead to a freaky house. Much creepiness and stalking by a chainsaw-happy dude named Leatherface follows. Produced by Michael Bay, with a score by Marilyn Manson.
Now Showing: Wynnsong 16

Timeline (PG-13)
A professor (Billy Connolly) and his son (Paul Walker) are working on the ruins of a castle that contain a chamber sealed for hundreds of years. When the dig opens a wormhole to the 14th century, they are sucked into medieval Europe and must find a way back to the 21st century.
Now Showing: Carmike 10, West Town Mall

Tupac Resurrection (R)
A documentary about the life, music and death of Tupac Shakur, the rapper and actor who gained as much notoriety for his talent as his trouble with the law. The MTV Film contains previously unreleased concert footage, home movies and plenty of narration from Tupac himself, who died in 1996 after being shot in Las Vegas by a still-unknown assailant.
Now Showing: Movies 7