Vallarta Film Festival December 4th.Program
December 4th . Program
19:00 I am not like that no more!. Dir: Christian Sesma USA, 2009 Prod: Redford Mejia, Mason Mukai, Helyn Taylor Cast: Felipe Esparza, Paul Rodriguez, Deborah Baker Jr, Ina Barron Comedy 122 Min.
Felipe Valenzuela is your typical lazy live at home 30-year-old son. Felipe’s life revolves around his dysfunctional extended Mexican American family and two buddies. He wants to do better in life. Unfortunately, Felipe cannot get over the obstacles life has put in his path. By accident, he meets Jill Idleberry. She is an old high school classmate. They get reacquainted in the most unlikely circumstance. From that chance reunion, Felipe decides to turn his life around –inside him, he says, “I’m not like that no more.”
21:30 Serious Moonlight. Dir: Cheryl Hines USA, 2009 Prod: Andy Ostroy, Michael Roiff Cast: Meg Ryan, Timothy Hutton, Kristen Bell, Justin Long, Nathan Dean Comedy 103 Min.
During a weekend holiday at her upstate family’s getaway, Louise, a high powered
Manhattan lawyer, discovers her husband of 13 years, Ian, is having an affair with a much younger girl. In fact, he has the intention to leave her for good. An oddly cool Louise has other plans. She takes Ian captive, refusing to release him until he commits to work on their marriage together. When Ian’s impatient mistress shows up, not to mention an opportunistic gardener, things start to get seriously.
14:00 Home English Version. Dir: Yann Arthus-Bertrand France, 2009 Prod: Luc Besson, Denis Carot Narrator: Glenn Close (English version); Salma Hayek (Spanish version) Documentary 118 Min.
Shot in 54 countries and 120 locations over 217 days, Home presents the many wonders of planet Earth from an entirely aerial perspective. In our 200 thousand years on Earth, humanity has hopelessly upset Mother Nature’s delicate balance. Some experts claim that we have less than ten years to change our patterns of consumption and reverse the trend before the damage is irreversible. Produced to inspire action and encourage thoughtful debate, Home poses the prospect that unless we act quickly, we risk losing the only home we may ever have.
16:30 Lions Den (Leonera).Dir: Pablo Trapero Argentina, Brazil, 2008 Prod: Pablo Trapero, Young-joo Suh Cast: Martina Gusman, Elli Medeiros, Laura García, Rodrigo Santoro Drama 103 Min.
For his fifth feature, Trapero takes his camera into the Argentine prison system, working on location and often with non-professional actors and real prisoners to tell the fictional, compelling story of Julia, a pregnant, 26-year-old student who wakes up one morning to find that one of her two male roommates is dead. Julia is convicted, and we spend most of the rest of the film observing her relationship with other prisoners, both before and after the birth of her son, Thomas, and her growing, close friendship with Marta, a mother incarcerated alongside her several children.
21:30 . The Maid ( la niñera). Dir: Sebastián Silva
Chile, 2009 Prod: Gregorio González, Edgar San Juan Cast: Catalina Saavedra, Claudia Celedon, Alejandro Gioc Drama 95 Min.
Raquel has served as the live-in maid for the Valdes family for 23 years. Neither truly a member of the family nor simply a servant, she inhabits an undefined space somewhere in between. Threatened when the family decides to bring on extra help, she engages in a series of increasingly frantic acts to hold on to her position in this sharp comedic drama about family, social class and self-discovery.
14:00 New York I Love You. Dir: Jiang Wen, Mira Nair, Shunji Iwai,
Yvan Attal, Brett Ratner, Allen Hughes, Shekhar Kapur. USA, 2009 Prod: Emmanuel Benbihy, Marina Grasic. Cast: Natalie Portman, Orlando Bloom, Christina Ricci, Hayden Christensen, Andy Garcia Drama, Romance 103 Min.
NYILU is a collaboration of storytelling from some of today’s most imaginative filmmakers and featuring an all-star cast. Together they create a kaleidoscope of the spontaneous, surprising, electrifying human connections that pump New York City’s heartbeat. Sexy, funny, haunting and revealing encounters unfold beneath the Manhattan skyline. From Tribeca to Central Park to Brooklyn the story weaves a tale of love as diverse as the very fabric of New York itself.
16:30 Fom Mexico With Love. Dir: Jimmy Nickerson
México-Colombia, 2009 Prod: Glen Hartford, Daniel Toll, Kenneth Herts Cast: Kuno Becker, Steven Bauer, Angelica Aragon, Danay Garcia Drama 96 Min.
Hector Villa is an illegal migrant who makes a living as a farm laborer in the fields of a Texas ranch by day and as an aspiring professional boxer by night. After brawling with ranch heavies and almost beaten to death, the young man joins forces with a veteran boxing trainer who takes him under his wing and helps him prepare for a fight against the rancher’s undefeated boxer son. The match becomes a dramatic showdown between the racist ranchers and the masses of downtrodden farm workers, who see a victory in the ring as a chance to reclaim some of the dignity they’ve lost in the fields.
19:00 The Imaginariun of Dr Parnassus. Dir: Terry Gilliam Canada-United Kingdom, 2009 Prod: Amy Gilliam, Samuel Hadida, William Vince, Terry Gilliam Cast: Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Colin Farrell Fantasy, Drama 122 Min.
Delayed but not defeated by the untimely death of its star, Heath Ledger, the new
fantasy adventure from auteur Terry Gilliam parlays the legend of Faust into an elaborate modern morality tale. The ‘Imaginarium’ is a traveling show that gives its audiences a fascinating choice between Light and Darkness. Meanwhile, the show’s mysterious and ageless creator has struck his own deal with the devil and his bill has now come due. Can Dr. Parnassus take one last risk and save his 16-year-old daughter from damnation?.
21:30 Gentleman Broncos. Dir: Jared Hess USA, 2009 Prod: Mike White
Cast: Hector Jimenez, Michael Angarano, Jennifer Coolidge, Jemaine Clement, Mike White, Sam Rockwell Comedy 122 Min.
Benjamin, home-schooled by his eccentric mother, is a loveable loner whose passion for writing leads him on an offbeat and hilarious journey as his story first gets ripped off by the legendary fantasy novelist, Ronald Chevalier, and then is adapted into a disastrous movie by the small town’s most prolific homespun filmmaker.
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