After their new jeep conks out on a desolate stretch of arizona highway, a well-heeled massachusetts couple accepts the help of a kindly, honest-seeming trucker, who drives the wife to a diner while the husband stays behind to protect the vehicle.
BORROWING ITS MULTI-PERSPECTIVE FRAMEWORK FROM RYUNOSUKE AKUTAGAWA'S "IN THE GROVE," WHICH ALSO SERVED AS THE INSPIRATION FOR AKIRA KUROSAWA'S "RASHOMON," THE STORY TELLS OF A JAPANESE ENTREPRENEUR (HIRO MURAKAMI), WHO COMES TO AMERICA WITH PLANS TO TEAR DOWN AN OLD PENNSYLVANIA STEEL MILL AND BUILD AN AMUSEMENT PARK.
Kelly ("VIRTUOSITY") Lynch, Joe ("UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL") Mantegna and Naomi ("TANK GIRL") Watts star in this action thriller directed by George ("THE LOW LIFE") Hickenlooper about an ex-con turned security designer who falls victim to a sexy thief casing a warehouse full of drug money.
Tobey ("THE ICE STORM") Maguire and Reese ("TWILIGHT") Witherspoon team up for a fantasy-based comedy centering around a pair of teenage siblings who find themselves mysteriously trapped in an ultra-wholesome, black-and-white sitcom from the 1950s.