Holiday Movies
Premise: Neo, Morpheus, Trinity, and the rest keep battling the machines that have enslaved the human race.
Release: Nov. 5
"Elf"
Premise: Ferrell plays a full-sized human who is raised as one of Santa's elves. Asner plays Santa.
Release: Nov. 7
"Love Actually"
Premise: Vignettes from different lives that illustrate different types of love.
Release: Nov. 14
"Master and Commander"
Stars: Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany
Premise: During the Napoleonic Wars, a sea captain takes his crew and chases another vessel to the other side of the world.
Release: Nov. 14
"Back In Action"
Stars: Daffy Duck, Jenna Elfman, Brendan Fraser and Bugs Bunny
Premise: Various live-action stars join the animated Looney Tunes in a search for the elusive Blue Diamond.
Release: Nov. 14
"Cat in the Hat"
Stars: Mike Myers, Alec Baldwin and Sean Hayes
Premise: Film adaptation of the children's classic that was first published in 1957.
Release: Nov. 21
"Radio"
Premise: A football coach in a southern town mentors a mentally challenged man whose name is Radio.
Release: Nov. 21
"Timeline"
Premise: When a time-traveling history professor is lost in 12th century France, three Yale students must go and save him.
Release: Nov. 26
"Bad Santa"
Premise: Two thieves travel from mall to mall, masquerading as Santa and one his elves, until a little boy teaches them the true meaning of Christmas.
Release: Nov. 26
"The Haunted Mansion"
Premise: It's another movie based on a popular Disney World attraction. But remember: It worked for "Pirates of the Caribbean."
Release: Nov. 26
"The Missing"
Premise: Ron Howard directs this story of an estranged father and daughter who unite to track down her kidnapped daughter.
Release: Nov. 26
"The Last Samurai"
Premise: This is an action/adventure epic set in the late 1870s. Cruise's character is captured by the Samurai and forced to learn their ways.
Release: Dec. 5
"Big Fish"
Premise: A dying man who spins tales about the life he has led attempts to reconcile with his estranged son.
Release: Dec. 10
"Something's Gotta Give"
Premise: A music executive who usually dates younger women finds himself falling for the mother of his current paramour.
Release: Dec. 12
"Girl With Pearl Earring"
Premise: Based on a novel that speculates about the life of a girl who was immortalized in a painting by Johannes Vermeer
Release: Dec. 12
"Stuck On You"
Premise: Damon and Kinnear play conjoined twins, and the plot revolves around the complications that ensue when one of them decides to become a movie star.
Release: Dec. 12
"Return Of The King"
Stars: Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom, Ian McKellen and Liv Tyler (pictured)
Premise: Continuation of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy
Release: Dec. 17
"Mona Lisa Smile"
Premise: Roberts, as a professor, arrives at an all-girls' college in 1953 and proceeds to show her students that, as women, they don't have to live in a box.
Release: Dec. 19
"Cheaper By The Dozen"
Premise: Very little resemblance to the book that told the true story of the Gilbreth family. Martin plays a father who is left in charge of his brood of 12 when Mom goes off on a book tour.
Release: Dec. 25
"Cold Mountain"
Premise: A wounded Confederate soldier on a perilous journey home to his mountain community, hoping to reunite with his pre-war sweetheart.
Release: Dec. 25