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( Release: Jun. 6, 2008   Rated: PG-13 (MPAA)   Details | Trailers | Photos ) — Blake Morrison (Colin Firth) is a happily married middle-aged guy who has always had a troubled relationship with his father, Arthur (Jim Broadbent). After discovering his dad has a terminal illness, Blake flashes back to all the moments in his life when Arthur didn’t live up to the idealistic vision his son had of him, especially in regards to a strange woman (Sarah Lancaster) who may or may not have born Arthur’s illegitimate child.

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( Release: May. 30, 2008   Rated: Rating Pending   Details | Trailers ) — This documentary examines the use of performance enhancing drugs in professional sports and entertainment. As a child, director Christopher Bell wanted to grow up to be like Hulk Hogan, Sylvester Stallone or Arnold Schwarzenegger and ended up taking steroids to accomplish that goal. This documentary looks at Bell’s own involvement in the steroid subculture and examines why our country demands its heroes to be so much bigger than life.

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( Release: May. 16, 2008   Rated: R (MPAA)   Details | Trailers ) — Philip (Anders Danielsen Lie) and Erik (Espen Klouman-Hoiner) are best friends and aspiring authors. After sending their first novels to all the big publishing houses, only Philip finds success. After finding a minium of success, though, Philip suffers a nervous breakdown and spends some time in a psychiatric institution. Erik, on the other hand, never gets published, but also never gives up on his dream.

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( Release: May. 21, 2008   Rated: Rating Pending   Details ) — Nejat (Baki Davrak) doesn’t like the fact that his widowed father Ali (Tuncel Kurtiz) has a prostitute, Yeter (Nursel) as a girlfriend. But after Yeter dies in a car accident, Nejat travels to Turkey to find her daughter, Ayten (Nurgul Yesilcay) and give her the bad news. However, he finds Ayten stuck in a Turkish prison after having been deported from Germany for political reasons.

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( Release: May. 16, 2008   Rated: R (MPAA)   Details | Photos ) — Three generations of women in a Mexican-American family — grandmother, mtoher, daughter 3 each have their boring lives livened up one exciting summer. The aging Dona Genoveva (Lucy Gallardo) buys an old car and decides she wants to learn how to drive at the age of 70. Her gardener, Don Pedro (Jorge Cervera Jr.), provides the lessons, both in driving and in the art of love. Meanwhile, divorced, middle-aged Rosa (Elizabeth Pena) is hit on by a handsome video store owner (Steven Bauer), who just happens to be still married. Finally, teenage Blanca (America Ferrera) meets a suave boy (Leo Minaya) who may have gotten another girl pregnant.

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