Films of 2008
This is a list films from 2008 including popular, festival favorites, and award season nominations. Let me know if any should be added.
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- DirectorBrian HeckerStarsSteven KaplanWilliam H. MacyCheryl HinesWhile Danny's father and mother independently search for love, Danny is on his own desperate quest to find a prom date. Danny's search becomes progressively more pathetic once he and his family learn that Bart, the school's biggest dweeb, not only secured a date for the prom, but got a hotel room as well.
- DirectorPatricia RozemaStarsAbigail BreslinStanley TucciJoan CusackSet in Cincinnati at the height of the Great Depression, Kit Kittredge, a resourceful young girl, helps her mother run a boardinghouse after her father loses his job.
- DirectorKôki MitaniStarsKôichi SatôSatoshi TsumabukiEri FukatsuA hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good with the don by putting him in contact with a mysterious hitman -- an assassin the hustler has no idea how to contact. Instead, he hires an actor to play the role, though the thespian has no idea what he's getting into.
- DirectorBenny ChanStarsLouis KooBarbie HsuNick CheungA man receives a distressing phone call from a woman who has been kidnapped.
- DirectorJean-Stéphane SauvaireStarsChristophe MinieDaisy Victoria VandyJoseph DuoA cast of unknown performers are used in this drama about child soldiers fighting a war in the West African Country Liberia.
- DirectorEric ValetteStarsEdward BurnsShannyn SossamonAna Claudia TalancónSeveral people start receiving voice-mails from their future selves - messages which include the date, time, and some of the details of their deaths.
- DirectorMasayuki OchiaiStarsJoshua JacksonRachael TaylorJames KysonA newly married couple discovers disturbing, ghostly images in photographs they develop after a tragic accident. Fearing the manifestations may be connected, they investigate and learn that some mysteries are better left unsolved.
- DirectorAlexandre AjaStarsKiefer SutherlandPaula PattonAmy SmartAn ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.
- DirectorNick MooreStarsEmma RobertsAidan QuinnNatasha RichardsonA rebellious Malibu princess is shipped off to a strict English boarding school by her father.
- DirectorGurinder ChadhaStarsGeorgia GroomeAaron Taylor-JohnsonKaren TaylorThe story centers on a 14-year-old girl who keeps a diary about the ups and downs of being a teenager, including the things she learns about kissing.
- DirectorFred WolfStarsAnna FarisColin HanksEmma StoneAfter Playboy bunny Shelley is kicked out of the Playboy Mansion, she finds a job as the house mother for a sorority full of socially awkward girls.
- DirectorAlan TaylorStarsLucy PunchDonal LogueKim Dickens
- DirectorRob MargoliesStarsJane AdamsJosh PaisJoe MortonA day that starts like any other turns out to be one family's bitterly hilarious, ultimately painful, day-long journey of self-realization. "Lifelines" chronicles the hapless Bernstein family - Ira, Nancy, Michael, Meghan and Spencer, as they try to catch up to the life they are living... Exploring flawed characters, never allowing any excuses for their ugly behavior beyond their basic humanity, the story reflects the realistic experience of pausing long enough in your typical autopilot day to create the necessary time for truth to emerge.
- DirectorTariq TapaStarsMohamad Imran TapaTaniya KhanAli Mohammad DarA chance encounter between a teen pickpocket and one of his victims changes his plans to escape his dreary life.
- DirectorRaja GosnellStarsDrew BarrymoreGeorge LopezPiper PeraboWhile on vacation in Mexico, Chloe, a ritzy Beverly Hills chihuahua, finds herself lost and in need of assistance in order to get back home.
- DirectorRobert VinceStarsJim BelushiJimmy BennettLothaire BluteauIn this spin-off of the Air Bud franchise, five pups follow an ice cream transport truck to a plane and end up flying with the ice cream shipment to Alaska. There they find a pup friend and a boy who needs five dogs for a big race.
- DirectorJoshua SeftelStarsJohn CusackMarisa TomeiHilary DuffA corporation hires a professional assassin to pose as its trade show representative who must organize the wedding of a Middle Eastern pop star, which will allow him the opportunity to kill a Middle Eastern politician.
- DirectorJacob MedjuckTony Dean SmithStarsLucian MaiselScott BeaudinJesse CamachoA summer camp comedy...about the horrors of being ten.
- DirectorSteve MinerStarsMena SuvariNick CannonMichael WelchWhen a small Colorado town is overrun by the flesh hungry dead a small group of survivors try to escape in a last ditch effort to stay alive.
- DirectorRocco DeVilliersStarsJesse JamesReiley McClendonStephen BaldwinTwo boys from a small town find their courage tested when they accidentally stow away aboard an airplane owned by the mob.
- DirectorGeoffrey HaleyStarsWes BentleyWinona RyderRay RomanoA man (Bentley) who makes his living composing other people's suicide notes enters into a romance with the sister (Ryder) of a recent client.
- DirectorDavid WinningStarsBruce DernCindy SampsonNicolas WrightA young girl finds out some disturbing supernatural truths about her father, who has been a suspect to multiple murder cases.
- DirectorFred DurstStarsIce CubeKeke PalmerTasha SmithThe true story of Jasmine Plummer who, at the age of eleven, became the first female to play in Pop Warner football tournament in its 56-year history.
- DirectorRyan LittleStarsSean FarisPenn BadgleyGary ColeA rugby player is put up in a juvenile detention center, where he plays for the Highland Rugby team and ultimately plays against his father in the National Championships.
- DirectorAustin ChickStarsJosh HartnettNaomie HarrisAdam ScottAugust centers on two brothers fighting to keep their start-up company afloat on Wall Street during August 2001, a month before the 9/11 terrorist attacks.