SNAPS: JOHNNY DEPP, KEIRA KNIGHTLEY, BEN AFFLECK AND HILARY SWANK

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I BY INGRID RANDOJA
SEPTEMBER 1
IDIOCRACY
WHO’S IN IT? Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph
WHO DIRECTED? Mike Judge (Office Space)
WHAT’S IT ABOUT? In Judge’s long-awaited
follow-up to Office Space, a regular-guy
soldier (Wilson) and a prostitute (Rudolph)
are mistakenly frozen for 1,000 years when
a secret military experiment goes haywire.
When they awake they discover Americans
have become so stupid that the two of them
are the smartest people alive. The film’s
release was delayed by more than a year,
reportedly because some corporations didn’t
like how they were portrayed in the film.
THE WICKER MAN
WHO’S IN IT? Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn
WHO DIRECTED? Neil LaBute
(The Shape of Things)
WHAT’S IT ABOUT? This remake of the 1973
thriller stars Cage as a sheriff who travels to
a small island to help a woman locate her
missing daughter. But it won’t be easy
since the island is populated by creepy
neo-pagans, led by the sinister Sister
Summersisle (Burstyn).
SEPTEMBER 8
HOLLYWOODLAND
WHO’S IN IT? Adrien Brody, Ben Affleck
WHO DIRECTED? Allen Coulter (debut)
WHAT’S IT ABOUT? On June 16, 1959, actor
George Reeves, who played Superman in
the 1950s TV series, shot and killed
himself. But was it suicide? That’s the
focus of this whodunit that stars Brody as a
P.I. investigating Reeves’ (Affleck) death,
rumoured to be a murder orchestrated by a
Hollywood exec whose wife was having an
affair with Reeves. Canadian Kathleen
Robertson plays Reeves’ neighbour. See
Kathleen Robertson interview, page 12.
THE COVENANT
WHO’S IN IT? Steven Strait, Toby Hemingway
WHO DIRECTED? Renny Harlin (Mindhunters)
WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Four teenage guys discover
they’ve inherited special powers that have
been passed down from father-to-son for
more than 400 years. They are forbidden to
use these powers, but do anyway, and four
years later they must stop the evil they’ve
unleashed on the world.
CRANK
WHO’S IN IT? Jason Statham, Amy Smart
WHO DIRECTED? Brian Taylor and Mark Neveldine
WHAT’S IT ABOUT? He’s got one expression — p-o’d — and that’s all Statham will need in this
high-octane action pic about a hitman who is infected with a poison that will kill him
unless he keeps his adrenaline pumping. He’s got 24 hours to save himself and his
girlfriend (Smart). • HITS THEATRES SEPTEMBER 1
SEPTEMBER 15
EVERYONE’S HERO
VOICES: Jake T. Austin, Rob Reiner
WHO DIRECTED? Colin Brady,
Dan St. Pierre and Christopher Reeve
WHAT’S IT ABOUT? This heart-warming
animated flick about a boy who sets out to
return Babe Ruth’s stolen baseball bat
has been plagued with misfortune. First,
co-director Reeve died, and then his wife,
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Dana Reeve, who voices the character
Emily, passed away.
THE LAST KISS
WHO’S IN IT? Zach Braff, Jacinda Barrett
WHO DIRECTED? Tony Goldwyn
(Someone Like You...)
WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Michael (Braff) and Jenna
(Barrett) seem like the perfect couple,
except for the fact Michael is going through
an existential crisis that manifests
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