What to Watch: Top Films of 2009
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- StarsGary SiniseCharles ScheffelRon LivingstonFollow the lives of soldiers who lived World War II, through previously unseen color footage.
- DirectorNiels Arden OplevStarsMichael NyqvistNoomi RapaceEwa FrölingInfluential industrialist Vanger's niece Harriet disappeared under mysterious circumstances 40 years ago. As a last attempt at solving the case, he hires investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist.
- DirectorJohn Lee HancockStarsQuinton AaronSandra BullockTim McGrawThe story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All-American football player and first-round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.
- DirectorGil JungerStarsMelissa Joan HartJoey LawrenceJason MacDonaldCash-strapped virtual strangers Jennifer and Vince decide to stage a fake engagement and wedding just for the presents.
- DirectorDavid S. Cass Sr.StarsDean CainJean Louisa KellyMimi KennedyA married couple takes in three boys from the local orphanage for the holidays and all three boys hope to be adopted.
- DirectorPete DocterBob PetersonStarsEdward AsnerJordan NagaiJohn Ratzenberger78-year-old Carl Fredricksen travels to South America in his house equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway.
- StarsRomola GaraiMichael GambonJonny Lee MillerEmma Woodhouse, a wealthy young woman living in the early 19th century, whose misplaced confidence in her matchmaking abilities occasions several romantic misadventures, which leads her into deeper meanings of love and life
- DirectorJ.J. AbramsStarsChris PineZachary QuintoSimon PeggThe brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful Romulan from the future creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time.
- DirectorDavid YatesStarsDaniel RadcliffeEmma WatsonRupert GrintAs Harry Potter begins his sixth year at Hogwarts, he discovers an old book marked as "the property of the Half-Blood Prince" and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort's dark past.
- DirectorGiacomo CampiottiStarsTeresa AcerbisEttore BassiFederica BauBakhita is captured as a slave as a child, a Viennian man sees her. Many years later the man has returned to do business and recognizes her. After saving her, he takes her back to his home. The other servants think she's the devil due to her black skin, but the daughter of the house chooses her as her nanny.
- StarsJennifer Jo HooperNational Geographic explores the fatal series of avoidable human errors that sent Titanic to her watery grave.
- DirectorBruce BeresfordStarsChi CaoBruce GreenwoodKyle MacLachlanIn Maoist China, a boy is taken from his family and trained to become a dancer, but everything he knows is challenged when he is chosen to attend a ballet summer school in Houston, Texas.
- DirectorMax MayerStarsHugh DancyRose ByrnePeter GallagherAdam, a lonely man with Asperger's Syndrome, develops a relationship with his upstairs neighbor, Beth.
- DirectorRobert SchwentkeStarsEric BanaRachel McAdamsRon LivingstonHenry DeTamble, a librarian, possesses a unique gene that lets him involuntarily travel through time. His wife, Claire Abshire, finds it difficult to cope with it.
- DirectorLou Diamond PhillipsStarsSarah JonesHaylie DuffJordan BridgesA doctor (Sarah Jones) helps townspeople who fear a mysterious illness.
- DirectorNeil JordanStarsColin FarrellAlicja BachledaDervla KirwanAn Irish fisherman discovers a woman in his fishing net whom his precocious daughter believes to be a selkie.
- DirectorAnne FletcherStarsSandra BullockRyan ReynoldsMary SteenburgenWhen New York editor Margaret faces deportation, she convinces her assistant Andrew to marry her in return for a promotion. However, when she visits his hometown, it changes her in many ways.
- DirectorBrian BroughStarsK.C. ClydeKari Hawker-DiazBruce DavisonAshley feels alone at Christmas as she searches for a job. Her neighbor Nick offers her a job as his assistant in the best work: helping others. There's one catch she can't tell anyone that her new boss is a sort of Secret Santa.
- DirectorKen KwapisStarsGinnifer GoodwinJennifer AnistonJennifer ConnellyThis Baltimore-set movie of interconnecting story arcs deals with the challenges of reading or misreading human behavior.
- DirectorRob LettermanConrad VernonStarsReese WitherspoonRainn WilsonStephen ColbertA woman transformed into a giant after she is struck by a meteorite on her wedding day becomes part of a team of monsters sent in by the U.S. government to defeat an alien mastermind trying to take over Earth.
- DirectorDebbie IsittStarsMartin FreemanMarc WoottonJason WatkinsAn uptight but secretly heartbroken primary school teacher's little white lie about Hollywood coming to see his class' nativity play grows like wildfire in his rag-tag school low on self-esteem.
- DirectorBurr SteersStarsZac EfronMatthew PerryLeslie MannMike O'Donnell is ungrateful for how his life turned out. He gets a chance to rewrite his life when he tried to save a janitor near a bridge and jumped after him into a time vortex.
- StarsJim CaviezelIan McKellenRuth WilsonAn update to the cult favorite series from the 1960s about a government agent who is kidnapped and sent to a remote island known as "The Village."
- DirectorRalph HemeckerStarsJerry O'ConnellLauren StamileIsabella HofmannSilver spoon Boston lawyer Declan Fitzpatrick fell in instant love with a Louisiana bayou 'haunted' estate when he drove by with college friends. Now he learns it's on sale and rushes to the rather destitute owner, old Odette Simone. She lives in a cabin nearby and makes sure he gets to meet her orphaned granddaughter, headstrong restaurateur Lena. The youngsters sort of fall in love, but the estate's bloody slavery days past, including fratricide and infanticide, comes to weigh heavily, even in ghostly fashions.