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February 10, 2012

This week at the movies: 02/10/2012

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New this week

3: A romantic drama about a Berlin couple whose restlessness leads them to each (separately) become acquainted with the same younger man. Part of the Bay Film Series at the Bay Theatre in Suttons Bay. Sunday, Feb. 12, 2 and 5 p.m.; Monday, Feb. 13, 6 p.m.; Tuesday, Feb. 14, 6 p.m.; www.thebaytheatre.com.

Journey 2 The Mysterious Island: Sean Anderson partners with his mom's boyfriend on a mission to find his grandfather, who is thought to be missing on a mythical island. Rated PG for some adventure action, and brief mild language. (GT10)

Laugh Out Loud Short Film Fest: 17 short comedies and the audiences can vote on cell phones. (HOR)

Safe House: A young CIA agent is tasked with looking after a fugitive in a safe house. But when the safe house is attacked, he finds himself on the run with his charge. Rated R for strong violence throughout and some language. (HOR)

Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace: Two Jedi Knights uncover a wider conflict when they are sent as emissaries to the blockaded planet Naboo. Rated PG for sci-fi action/violence. (HOR)

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6's echelons. Rated R for violence, some sexuality/nudity and language. (BAY)

The Vow: A car accident puts Paige in a coma, and when she wakes up with severe memory loss, her husband Leo works to win her heart again. Rated PG-13 for an accident scene, sexual content, partial nudity and some language. (HOR)

Showing locally

Beauty and the Beast: Reissued Disney movie. Belle, whose father is imprisoned by the Beast, offers herself instead and discovers her captor to be an enchanted prince. Rated G. (GT10)

Big Miracle: In small town Alaska, a news reporter recruits his ex-girlfriend — a Greenpeace volunteer — on a campaign to save a family of gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle. Rated PG for language. (GT10)

Chronicle: Three high school friends gain superpowers after making an incredible discovery. Rated PG-13 for intense action and violence, thematic material, some language, sexual content and teen drinking. (GT10)

The Descendants: A land baron tries to reconnect with his two daughters after his wife suffers a boating accident. Rated R for language including some sexual references. (HOR)

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A 9-year-old searches New York City for the lock that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. Rated PG-13 for emotional thematic material, some disturbing images, and language. (ST)

The Grey: In Alaska, an oil drilling team struggle to survive after a plane crash strands them in the wild. Hunting the humans are a pack of wolves who see them as intruders. Rated R for violence/disturbing content including bloody images, and for pervasive language. (GT10)

Hugo: Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton. Rated PG for mild thematic material, some action/peril and smoking. (HOR)

The Iron Lady: A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power. Rated PG-13 for some violent images and brief nudity. (GAR, HOR)

Man on a Ledge: As a police psychologist works to talk down an ex-con who is threatening to jump from a Manhattan hotel rooftop, the biggest diamond heist ever committed is in motion. Rated PG-13 for violence and brief strong language. (HOR)

One for the Money: Unemployed and newly divorced Stephanie Plum lands a job at her cousin's bail-bond business. Rated PG-13 for violence, sexual references and language, some drug material and partial nudity. (GT10)

Red Tails: A crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program, having faced segregation while kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard. Rated PG-13 for some sequences of war violence. (GT10)

Sherlock Holmes A Game of Shadows: Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson join forces to outwit and bring down their fiercest adversary, Professor Moriarty. Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, and some drug material. (HOR)

Underworld Awakening: When human forces discover the existence of the Vampire and Lycan clans, a war to eradicate both species commences. Rated R for strong violence and gore, and for some language. ((HOR)

We Bought a Zoo: Set in Southern California, a father moves his young family to the countryside to renovate and re-open a struggling zoo. Rated PG for language and some thematic elements. (GT10, ER)

The Woman in Black: A young lawyer travels to a remote village where he discovers the vengeful ghost of a scorned woman is terrorizing the locals. Rated PG-13 for thematic material and violence/disturbing images. (HOR)

Information is based on data available at press time from Traverse City area Carmike theaters (GT10, HOR), the State Theatre (ST), the Garden Theatre in Frankfort, (GAR) the Elk Rapids Cinema (ER), Cherry Bowl DriveIn (CB) and The Bay Theatre in Suttons Bay (BAY).

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