Posted on: Thursday, April 14, 2005
Movie Openings
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• "The Ballad of Jack and Rose": Daniel Day-Lewis is an aging hippie, still living in what remains of an island commune with his teenage daughter (Camilla Belle). Opens tomorrow at Dole Cannery 18 Theatres, Ward Stadium 16. (R)
• "Dear Frankie": Frankie (Jack McElhone) is a deaf 9-year-old who has been told by his mother (Emily Mortimer) that his father is a sailor on a ship named the Accra. When a ship with that name docks in Glasgow, Frankie of course hopes his father will visit, but in fact his mother fled from the violent man. So she hires a stranger (Gerard Butler) to pretend for one day to be Frankie's father. Opens tomorrow at Kahala 8-Plex. (PG-13)
• "Downfall": Takes us inside the sealed world of Hitler's bunker beneath Berlin, where the madman spends his last days in paranoid ravings and hallucinatory plans. Opens tomorrow at Varsity Twin. (R, subtitled)
• "Merchant of Venice": Al Pacino stars as Shylock in a retelling of the Shakespeare classic. Opens tomorrow at Maui Mall Megaplex Cinemas (Maui).
• "Thérèse": A biography of Thérèse of Lisieux, a Carmelite nun who became a popular saint of modern times. Opens tomorrow at Dole Cannery 18 Theatres. (PG)
