THE WEEKEND EXPERIENCE - MOVIES OPENING 8/15

THE MOVIE THAT'S A GAMBLE BUT PROBABLY HAS ITS MOMENTS

Tropic Thunder
A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film. But after ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys. Starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. -© Dreamworks

THE MOVIE THAT LOOKS LIKE FUN

Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Two young Americans spend a summer in Spain and meet a flamboyant artist (Javier Bardem) and his beautiful but insane ex-wife (Penelope Cruz). Vicky (Rebecca Hall) is straight-laced and about to be married. Cristina (Scarlett Johansson) is a sexually adventurous free spirit. When they all become amorously entangled, the results are both hilarious and harrowing. -© Weinstein Co.


THE FRENCH FILM THAT'S WORTH A PEEK

A Girl Cut in Two
The French master of suspense Claude Chabrol returns with the razor-sharp, darkly seductive, A Girl Cut in Two. . Gabrielle Deneige (Ludivine Sagnier) is an independent, ambitious TV weather girl torn between her love of a distinguished author several decades her senior (Francois Berléand), and the attentions of a headstrong, potentially unstable young suitor (Benoit Magimel). -©IFC Films


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