Arts & Entertainment
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Here are the top 10 Redbox DVD rentals in Plainfield this week.
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#1: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Genre: Action, Drama, Suspense
Cast: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgård and Steven Berkoff
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Director: David Fincher
Synopsis: The bestselling book is now a major motion picture. A journalist is hired by one of Sweden's richest industrialists to investigate the disappearance of his niece 40 years ago. With a female hacker assisting him, they uncover a secret history of murder and sexual abuse that puts their lives in danger.
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Rating: R for brutal, violent content, strong sexuality, graphic nudity and language.
#2: Tower Heist
Genre: Action, Comedy
Cast: Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Casey Affleck, Alan Alda, Matthew Broderick
Director: Brett Ratner
Synopsis: Queens native Josh Kovaks has managed one of the most luxurious and well-secured residences in New York City for more than a decade. Under his watchful eye, nothing goes undetected. In the swankiest unit atop Josh's building, Wall Street titan Arthur Shaw is under house arrest after being caught stealing two billion from his investors. The hardest hit among those he defrauded? The tower staffers whose pensions he was entrusted to manage. With only days before Arthur gets away with the perfect crime, Josh's crew turns to petty crook Slide to plan the nearly impossible...to steal what they are sure is hidden in Arthur's guarded condo. Though amateurs, these rookie thieves know the building better than anyone. Turns out they've been casing the place for years, they just didn't know it.
Rating: PG-13 for language and sexual content.
#3: Jack and Jill
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Adam Sandler, Katie Holmes, Allen Covert, Al Pacino, Elodie Tougne
Director: Dennis Dugan
Synopsis: Jack Sadelstein is a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, who dreads one event each year: the Thanksgiving visit of his identical twin sister Jill. Jill's neediness and passive-aggressiveness is maddening to Jack, turning his normally tranquil life upside down.
Rating: PG for crude material including suggestive references, language, comic violence and brief smoking.
#4: The Adventures of Tintin
Genre: Family, Adventure, Kids, Animation
Cast: Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost
Director: Steven Spielberg
Synopsis: The film is based on the comic strip "Tintin" and a series of books by George "Herge" Remi, about the fearless young reporter Tintin. Tintin is on the trail of a big story which leads him into a world of high adventure. When he and his friends find the directions to a sunken ship, they go off to find the treasure it contained and Tintin must face the notorious Red Rackham.
Rating: PG for adventure action violence, some drunkenness and brief smoking.
#5 Happy Feet
Genre: Family, Kids
Cast: Elijah Wood, Pink, Robin Williams, Sofia Vergara, Hank Azaria
Director: George Miller
Synopsis: The most famous tap-dancing penguin, Mumble, returns along with the love of his life, Gloria, and their old friends Ramon and Lovelace. Mumble and Gloria now have a son, Erik, who is struggling to find his own particular talents in the Emperor Penguin world. But new dangers are threatening the penguin nation, and it's going to take everyone working - and dancing – together to save them.
Rating: PG for some rude humor and mild peril.
#6 In Time
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Cast: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Cillian Murphy, Vincent Kartheiser, Olivia Wilde
Director: Andrew Niccol
Synopsis: In the near future, people are immortal because the aging gene has been deactivated. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency. The rich can live forever, and the rest have to negotiate for their immortality. When a young man comes into a fortune of time, he ends up on the run from a corrupt force known as "time keepers."
Rating: PG-13 for violence, some sexuality and partial nudity, and brief strong language.
#7 Young Adult
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Cast: Charlize Theron, Patton Oswalt, Patrick Wilson, Elizabeth Reaser, Collette Wolfe
Director: Jason Reitman
Synopsis: Mavis Gary, a writer of teen literature returns to her small hometown to relive her glory days and attempt to reclaim her happily married high school sweetheart. When returning home proves more difficult than she thought, Mavis forms an unusual bond with a former classmate who hasn't quite gotten over high school, either.
Rating: R for language and some sexual content.
#8: Footloose:
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Cast: Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough, Andie MacDowell, Dennis Quaid, Miles Teller
Director: Craig Brewer
Synopsis: Ren McCormack is transplanted from Boston to the small southern town of Bomont where he experiences a heavy dose of culture shock. A few years prior, the community was rocked by a tragic accident that killed five teenagers after a night out and Bomont's local councilmen and the beloved Reverend Shaw Moore responded by implementing ordinances that prohibit loud music and dancing. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizing the town and falling in love with the minister's troubled daughter Ariel in the process.
Rating: PG-13 for some teen drug and alcohol use, sexual content, violence and language
#9 Puss in Boots
Genre: Family, Kids
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Bob Thornton, Amy Sedaris
Director: Chris Miller
Synopsis: Way before Puss in Boots ever met Shrek, our suave and furry feline hero goes on a swashbuckling ride, as he teams up with mastermind Humpty Dumpty and the street-savvy Kitty Southpaws to steal the famed goose that lays the golden eggs.
Rating: PG for some adventure action and mild rude humor
#10 The Muppets:
Genre: Comedy, Family, Kids
Cast: Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper, Rashida Jones, Steve Whitmire
Director: James Bobin
Synopsis: On vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world's biggest Muppet fan, his brother Gary and Gary's girlfriend Mary from Smalltown, USA, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman to raze the Muppet Theater and drill for the oil recently discovered beneath the Muppets' former stomping grounds. To stage a telethon and raise the $10 million needed to save the theater, Walter, Mary and Gary help Kermit reunite the Muppets, who have all gone their separate ways: Fozzie now performs with a Reno casino tribute band called the Moopets, Miss Piggy is a plus-size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, Animal is in a Santa Barbara clinic for anger management, and Gonzo is a high-powered plumbing magnate.
Rating: PG for some mild rude humor.