EntertainmentNovember 24, 2006
NEW AT THEATERS: 'Tenacious D In: The Pick of Destiny'; STILL PLAYING: 'A Good Year'; 'Bobby'; 'Borat'; 'Casino Royale'; 'Deck the Halls'; 'Deja Vu'; 'Facing the Giants'; 'Flushed Away'; 'For Your Consideration'; 'The Fountain'; 'The Guardian'; 'Happy Feet'; 'Let's Go to Prison'; 'The Queen'; 'Saw III'; 'Stranger Than Fiction'

NEW AT THEATERS

'Tenacious D In: The Pick of Destiny'

Starring Jack Black, Kyle Gass, Tim Robbins and Ben Stiller. Two average Joes believe they have one mission in their lifetime: to become the "greatest band on Earth." Rated R for pervasive language, sexual content and drug use, running time 95 minutes. (Town Plaza Cinema)

STILL PLAYING

'A Good Year'

Starring Russell Crowe, Albert Finney and Marion Cotillard. Investment banker Max Skinner plans to sell a small vineyard he inherits from his uncle. But Max encounters a beautiful California woman who also lays claim to the property, and he begins to consider whether or not he can really sell the place. Rated PG-13 for language and some sexual content, running time 118 minutes. (Town Plaza Cinema)

'Bobby'

Starring Emilio Estevez, Anthony Hopkins and Demi Moore. Directed by Emilio Estevez, this historical drama revisits the night Robert F. Kennedy was gunned down at the Ambassador Hotel in 1968. Rated R for language, drug content and a scene of violence, running time 120 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Borat'

Starring Sacha Baron Cohen, Pamela Anderson and Ken Davitian. Kazakh reporter Borat travels to the United States in hopes of bringing back important knowledge to his primitive homeland. Rated R for pervasive strong, crude and sexual content including graphic nudity and language, running time 84 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Casino Royale'

Starring Daniel Craig, Judi Dench and Jeffrey Wright. James Bond's first "007" mission leads him to Le Chiffre, banker to the world's terrorists. In order to stop him and bring down the terrorist network, Bond must beat Le Chiffre in a poker game at the Casino Royale. Rated for intense sequences of violent action, a scene of torture, sexual content and nudity, running time 144 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Deck the Halls'

Starring Matthew Broderick, Danny DeVito and Kristin Davis. Steve, a suburban dad and Christmas enthusiast, leads a well-ordered, well-planned and well-organized life. His neighbor, Danny, is Steve's opposite: a big, crazy personality. Danny's dream to create the biggest holiday light display in the world is turning Steve's world into a chaotic nightmare. Rated PG for some crude and suggestive humor and for language, running time 95 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Deja Vu'

Starring Denzel Washington, Jim Caviezel, Adam Goldberg and Bruce Greenwood. A sense of deja vu unexpectedly guides ATF agent Doug Carlin through an investigation of a crime. Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and terror, disturbing images and some sensuality, running time 128 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Facing the Giants'

Starring Alex Kendrick, Jim McBride and James Blackwell. A high-school football coach uses some unorthodox methods to motivate his team. Rated PG for some thematic elements, running time 111 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

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'Flushed Away'

Starring the voices of Kate Winslet, Hugh Jackman and Ian McKellen. This animated feature tells the story of an uptown rat who has to learn a whole new way of life when he ends up in the sewers of London. Rated PG for crude humor and some language, running time 85 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'For Your Consideration'

Starring Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara. The cast and crew of a small indie movie find themselves inexplicably surrounded by Oscar buzz in the middle of Academy Awards season. Rated PG-13 for sexual references and brief language, running time 86 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'The Fountain'

Starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz. A man embarks on a thousand-year struggle to save the woman he loves. Rated R for some violence, running time 96 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'The Guardian'

Starring Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher and Clancy Brown. Ben Randall is a maverick teacher who trains rescue swimmers for the Coast Guard. Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of action/peril, brief strong language and some sensuality, running time 135 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Happy Feet'

Starring the voices of Nicole Kidman, Elijah Wood and Hugh Jackman. In the great nation of Emperor Penguins in Antarctica, you're nobody unless you can sing, which is bad news for Mumble, who is the worst singer in the world. But he sure can tap dance. Rated G, running time 108 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Let's Go to Prison'

Starring Bob Odenkirk, Will Arnett and Dax Shepard. Felon John Lyshitski has figured out the best way to get revenge on the now-dead judge who sent him to jail: watch the official's obnoxious son, Nelson Biederman IV, head to the clink himself. John strikes gold when Nelson is wrongly convicted of a crime and sent to the pen. So John gleefully gets sent back to become Nelson's cellmate and to ensure that his new buddy gets the "full treatment." Rated R for language, sexual content, some violence and drug material, running time 89 minutes. (Town Plaza Cinema)

'The Queen'

Starring Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen and James Cromwell. When news of the death of Princess Diana reaches the British public, Queen Elizabeth II retreats behind the walls of Balmoral Castle with her family, unable to comprehend the public response to the tragedy. Newly elected prime minister Tony Blair must find a way to reconnect the queen with the British public. Rated PG-13 for brief strong language, running time 103 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause'

Starring Tim Allen, Alan Arkin and Martin Short. This time around, Santa, aka Scott Calvin, has to fight off Jack Frost, who wants to rule Christmas himself. Making matters more complicated, Scott risks revealing the secret location of his North Pole hideout by inviting his family up for the holiday. Rated G, running time 92 minutes. (Town Plaza Cinema)

'Saw III'

Starring Tobin Bell, Angus MacFadyen and Dina Meyer. Jigsaw's new apprentice, Amanda, kidnaps a woman named Lynn and takes her to an abandoned warehouse. Jigsaw is on the verge of death and she is charged with keeping the madman alive long enough for another of his victims, Jeff, to complete a game of his own. Rated R for strong grisly violence and gore, sequences of terror and torture, nudity and language, running time 107 minutes. (Cape West Cine)

'Stranger Than Fiction'

Starring Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Dustin Hoffman. An IRS agent hears a mysterious voice narrating his entire life, a voice that seems to know his thoughts and feelings, as well as when and how he'll die. It turns out that the voice is that of an author writing a book in which the agent is a character. Rated PG-13 for some disturbing images, sexuality, brief language and nudity, running time 113 minutes. (Town Plaza Cinema)

-- From staff reports

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