August Rush
A drama with fairy tale elements about an orphaned musical prodigy (Freddie Highmore) who uses his gift to help him find his birth parents. It's all about musicians and how music connects people. Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Robin Williams head the cast of this heartwarming urban fantasy.
Martian Child
In this overly sentimental, but likeable family drama, John Cusack plays a recently widowed science fiction writer who forms an unlikely family after he adopts a young boy who claims to be a visitor from Mars. Also in the cast are Amanda Peet, Joan Cusack, Oliver Platt and Angelica Huston.
Miss Potter
In this charming biography set in late Victorian amd Edwardian England, Beatrix Potter, played by Renée Zellweger, develops her skills as both an artist and an author. When she finally gets "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," her first book published, she becomes a celebrity. It also leads to courtship and her first love with her publisher played by Ewan McGregor.
Radio
The story of a high school coach and the developmentally challenged man whom he took under his wing. Cuba Gooding Jr. is fine portraying the mentally challenged man who changes the lives of people in his small South Carolina town.
Secondhand Lions
A story about a shy, young boy sent by his irresponsible mother to spend the summer with his wealthy, eccentric uncles in Texas and how he quickly learns to grow up. It stars Robert Duvall, Michael Caine, and Haley Joel Osment.
The Great Debaters Denzel Washington stars as a professor at Wiley College in Texas in the 1930's. He inspired his students to form the school's first debating team, which eventually went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. The film also features Forest Whitaker and his son Denzel Whitaker as Dr. James Farmer, Sr. and Jr. in this compelling true story.
Tuck Everlasting
William Hurt, Sissy Spacek, and Ben Kingsley, star in Disney's adaptation of the classic children's novel. Jonathan Jackson, Amy Irving, Victor Garber and Alexis Bledel ("Gilmore Girls") are also in the cast of this love story that will leave a smile on your face and a tear on your cheek.
