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Movie Showtimes for Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010
Note: The following are first-run, theatrical screenings. For other film events, please go to the calendar.
- Show only times for:
- Goodrich Savoy 16 Theater
- Carmike Beverly Cinema 18
- The Art Theatre
- Harvest Moon Drive-In
- All
A Single Man
In Los Angeles 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis George Falconer is struggling to find meaning to his life after the death of his long time partner, Jim. George dwells on the past and cannot see his future as we follow him through a single day, where a series of events and encounters, ultimately lead him to decide if there is a meaning to life after Jim. A romantic tale of love interrupted by the isolation that is an inherent part of the human condition and ultimately the importance of the seemingly smaller moments in life.
The Art Theater
- 8:00pm
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
America's favorite furry brothers Alvin, Simon and Theodore are back. Because of a freak accident involving Alvin and Dave Seville, they go to live with Dave's cool cousin, Toby and they have to enroll in school like every other kid. School presents new challenges to these rock stars like dealing with peer pressure, football and of course, girls. By "girls" we mean the Chipettes who are managed by Ian Hawke, the Chipmunks greedy former manager who wants to turn them into the next big thing.
Carmike Beverly Cinema 18
- 1:30pm
- 3:40
- 5:50
- 7:55
- 10:00
- 11:05am
An Education
An epic post-apocalyptic tale of the survival of a father and his young son as they journey across a barren America that was destroyed by a mysterious cataclysm. It imagines a future in which men are pushed to the worst and the best that they are capable of -- a future in which a father and his son are sustained by love.
Carmike Beverly Cinema 18
- 1:40pm
- 4:00
- 7:05
- 9:30
- 12:55pm
- 3:00
- 5:05
- 7:10
- 9:15
Avatar
Jake Sully, a former Marine confined to a wheelchair, is recruited to travel light years to the human outpost on Pandora, where corporations are mining a rare mineral that is the key to solving Earth's energy crisis. Because the atmosphere of Pandora is toxic, they have created the Avatar Program, in which human "drivers" have their consciousness linked to a remotely-controlled biological body called an avatar. Reborn in his avatar form, Jake can walk again, and is given a mission to infiltrate the native Na'vi, who have become a major obstacle to mining the precious ore. But a Na'vi female, Neytiri, saves Jake's life, and this changes everything.
Read the Review »MPAA Rating: PG-13
Carmike Beverly Cinema 18
- 1:30pm
- 5:00
Avatar 3D
Jake Sully, a former Marine confined to a wheelchair, is recruited to travel light years to the human outpost on Pandora, where corporations are mining a rare mineral that is the key to solving Earth's energy crisis. Because the atmosphere of Pandora is toxic, they have created the Avatar Program, in which human "drivers" have their consciousness linked to a remotely-controlled biological body called an avatar. Reborn in his avatar form, Jake can walk again, and is given a mission to infiltrate the native Na'vi, who have become a major obstacle to mining the precious ore. But a Na'vi female, Neytiri, saves Jake's life, and this changes everything.
Read the Review »MPAA Rating: PG-13
Carmike Beverly Cinema 18
- 1:30pm
- 2:30
- 3:00
- 4:45
- 5:55
- 7:00
- 8:00
- 9:30
- 11:25am
- 2:55pm
- 6:20
- 9:45
Crazy Heart
Bad Blake is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who's had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad can't help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean, a journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician. As he struggles down the road of redemption, Bad learns the hard way just how tough life can be on one man's crazy heart.
Goodrich Savoy 16 Theater
- 11:30am
- 2:00pm
- 4:30
- 7:00
- 9:30
Dear John
A soldier home on leave falls for a conservative college girl. Instead of returning home to her, he reenlists after the attacks on September 11th, 2001. Time and distance begin to take a toll on the young lovers
Carmike Beverly Cinema 18
- 1:35pm
- 2:00
- 4:10
- 5:00
- 7:00
- 8:00
- 9:30
- 11:20am
- 1:45pm
- 4:10
- 6:35
- 9:00
- 12:00
- 2:25
- 4:50
- 7:15
- 9:40
Edge of Darkness
Thomas Craven is a veteran homicide detective for the Boston Police Department and a single father. When his only child, 24-year-old Emma, is murdered on the steps of his home, everyone assumes that he was the target. But he soon suspects otherwise, and embarks on a mission to find out about his daughter's secret life and her killing. His investigation leads him into a dangerous looking-glass world of corporate cover-ups, government collusion and murder - and to shadowy government operative Darius Jedburgh who has been sent in to clean up the evidence.
Carmike Beverly Cinema 18
- 1:30pm
- 2:00
- 4:00
- 5:00
- 7:00
- 8:00
- 9:35
- 11:40am
- 2:15pm
- 4:50
- 7:25
- 10:00
- 11:00am
- 1:35pm
- 4:10
- 6:45
- 9:20
Extraordinary Measures
From his working class roots, John Crowley has finally begun to taste success in corporate America. Supported by his beautiful wife Aileen and their three children, John is on the fast track. But just as his career is taking off, Crowley walks away from it all when his two youngest children, Megan and Patrick, are diagnosed with a fatal disease. Crowley teams up with a brilliant, but unappreciated and unconventional scientist, Dr. Robert Stonehill. Together they form a bio-tech company focused on developing a life-saving drug. But, at the last minute, when it appears that a solution has been found, the relationship between the two men faces a final test - the outcome of which will affect the fate of John's children.
Carmike Beverly Cinema 18
- 8:30pm
- 12:15pm
- 7:30
From Paris With Love
A low-ranking intelligence operative working in the office of the U.S. Ambassador in France takes on more than he bargained for when he partners with a wisecracking, fast-shooting, high-ranking U.S. agent who's been sent to Paris to stop a terrorist attack.
Carmike Beverly Cinema 18
- 1:30pm
- 4:05
- 7:05
- 9:25
- 12:05pm
- 2:20
- 4:35
- 6:50
- 9:05
It's Complicated
Jane is the mother of three grown kids, owns a thriving Santa Barbara bakery/restaurant and has - after a decade of divorce - an amicable relationship with her ex-husband, Jake. But when Jane and Jake find themselves out of town for their son's college graduation, things start to get complicated. An innocent meal together turns into an affair. With Jake remarried to the much younger Agness, Jane is now, of all things, the other woman. Should Jane and Jake move on with their lives, or is love truly lovelier the second time around? It's... complicated.
Goodrich Savoy 16 Theater
- 11:45am
- 7:05pm
Legion
An out-of-the-way diner becomes the unlikely battleground for the survival of the human race. When God loses faith in Mankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity's only hope lies in a group of strangers trapped in a desert diner and the Archangel Michael.
Carmike Beverly Cinema 18
- 1:40pm
- 4:00
- 7:10
- 9:30
- 2:25pm
- 4:45
- 9:50
Sherlock Holmes
Robert Downey Jr. stars as the legendary London detective, investigating a mysterious nemesis who threatens all of England.
Read the Review »MPAA Rating: PG-13
Carmike Beverly Cinema 18
- 2:00pm
- 5:00
- 8:10
- 11:05am
- 1:50pm
- 4:40
- 7:20
- 10:05
The Blind Side
Michael Oher, a homeless African-American youngster from a broken home, is taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill his potential. At the same time, Oher's presence in the Touhys' lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own. Living in his new environment, the teen faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome. As a football player and student, Oher works hard and, with the help of his coaches and adopted family, becomes an All-American offensive left tackle.
Read the Review »MPAA Rating: PG-13
Carmike Beverly Cinema 18
- 1:45pm
- 4:30
- 7:15
The Book of Eli
In the not-too-distant future, some 30 years after the final war, a solitary man walks across the wasteland that was once America. There is no civilization here, no law. The roads belong to gangs that would murder a man for his shoes, an ounce of water... or for nothing at all. A warrior not by choice but necessity, Eli seeks only peace but, if challenged, will cut his attackers down before they realize their fatal mistake. It's not his life he guards so fiercely but his hope for the future; a hope he has carried and protected for 30 years and is determined to realize.
Read the Review »MPAA Rating: R
Carmike Beverly Cinema 18
- 1:45pm
- 4:30
- 7:15
- 10:00
- 11:00am
- 1:30pm
- 9:25
The Lovely Bones
Susie Salmon, a young girl who has been murdered, watches over her family -- and her killer -- from heaven. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.
Read the Review »MPAA Rating: PG-13
Carmike Beverly Cinema 18
- 1:30pm
- 4:20
- 7:10
- 10:00
- 1:10pm
- 4:00
- 7:05
- 10:00
To Save a Life
Jake Taylor has it all: friends, fame, a basketball scholarship and the hottest girl in school. Roger Dawson has nothing. Although the two were best friends when they were kids, Roger doesn't fit in with anyone and he's had enough. He walks onto campus with a gun in his pocket and pain in his heart and makes a tragic move. Jake's last ditch effort can't stop Roger, and the sudden tragedy rocks Jake's world. In a quest for answers, Jake finds himself looking for the next Roger and reaching out to the outcasts and loners. He quickly finds that crossing class castes threatens all his world is built on and it could cost him his own friends, his dreams and even his reputation.
Goodrich Savoy 16 Theater
- 11:10am
- 1:45pm
- 4:20
- 6:55
- 9:35
Tooth Fairy
"The Tooth Fairy," also known as Derek Thompson, is a hard-charging hockey player whose nickname comes from his habit of separating opposing players from their bicuspids. When Derek discourages a youngster's dreams, he's sentenced to one week's hard labor as a real tooth fairy, complete with the requisite tutu, wings and magic wand. At first, Derek "can't handle the tooth" - bumbling and stumbling as he tries to furtively wing his way through strangers' homes-doing what tooth fairies do. But as Derek slowly adapts to his new position, he begins to rediscover his own forgotten dreams.
Carmike Beverly Cinema 18
- 1:30pm
- 4:00
- 7:20
- 9:50
- 11:15am
- 1:40pm
- 4:05
- 6:25
- 8:45
Up in the Air
Ryan Bingham, is a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and just after he's met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams.
Read the Review »MPAA Rating: R
Carmike Beverly Cinema 18
- 10:00pm
- 2:40pm
- 5:10
- 9:55
When in Rome
Disillusioned with romance, an ambitious New Yorker travels to Rome, where she plucks magic coins from a special fountain. The coins attract an assortment of odd suitors, including a sausage merchant, a street magician and an artist. But, when a persistent reporter throws his hat in the ring, she wonders if his love is the real thing.
Read the Review »MPAA Rating: PG-13
Carmike Beverly Cinema 18
- 1:20pm
- 4:10
- 7:10
- 9:30
- 11:50am
- 2:05pm
- 4:15
- 6:30
- 8:40
