Thursday, January 15, 2004
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Film: New This Week

Along Came Polly

Monster

Teacher's Pet

(PG, 67 min.) [a.k.a. Disney's Teacher's Pet] Not to be confused with the 1958 Doris Day/Clark Gable comedy, Disney's animated musical TV spinoff has Nathan Lane reprising his role as (the voice of) Spot the dog, who hopes to become a real boy with help from mad scientist Kelsey Grammer. Timothy Bjšrklund directs a script by Bill and Cheri Steinkellner. With Estelle Harris, David Ogden Stiers, Wallace Shawn.

Torque

(PG-13, 81 min.) Biker Martin Henderson (with his buddies Jay Hernandez and Will Yun Lee) mixes it up with drug dealer/gang boss Matt Schulze, who frames him for the murder of the kid brother of rival bike gang boss Ice Cube. Debut director Joseph Kahn's drama, written by first-time screenwriter Matt Johnson, is co-produced by Neal Moritz (The Fast and the Furious) and co-stars Monet Mazur.

Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!

(PG-13, 95 min.) Kate Bosworth (The Rules of Attraction) is the small-town girl from rural West Virginia who wins a date with movie star Tad Hamilton (Josh Duhamel, TV's "Las Vegas"), to the chagrin of her best friend/coworker (Topher Grace). Legally Blonde director Robert Luketic's comedy is written by Victor Levin and co-stars Gary Cole, Ginnifer Goodwin and Nathan Lane. Opens Jan. 23. Sneak previews: Fri., Jan. 16 Green Valley Ranch, Orleans, Sam's Town, Village Square, Sun., Jan. 18 Green Valley Ranch, Sam's Town.
Pshaw! Who needs them anyway? thought Mary Kincaid-Chauncey as she sat in her dank cell. I'll knit my OWN damn county commission!

The Fast and the Bi-Curious.