Movies Opening April 22, 2009

Earth

Genre: Documentary

MPAA Rating: G

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Movie Website: Disney.com/Nature

Starring: Patrick Stewart, James Earl Jones

Plot Summary: The first film in the Disneynature series, “Earth,” narrated by James Earl Jones, tells the remarkable story of three animal families and their amazing journey across the planet we all call home.

“Earth” combines rare action, unimaginable scale and impossible locations by capturing the most intimate moments of our planet’s wildest and most elusive creatures. Directors Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield, the acclaimed creative team behind the Emmy Award-winning “Planet Earth,” combine forces again to bring this epic adventure to the big screen, beginning Earth Day, April 22, 2009.

Treeless Mountain (Limited)

Genre: Art/Foreign and Drama

MPAA Rating: Not Rated

Movie Website: Oscilloscope.net

Actors/Actresses: Hee-yeon Kim, Song-hee Kim, Mi-Hyang Kim

Plot Summary: When their mother needs to leave in order to find their estranged father, seven year-old Jin and her younger sister, Bin, are left to live with their Big Aunt for the summer. With only a small piggy bank and their mother’s promise to return when it is full, the two young girls are forced to acclimate to changes in their family life. Counting the days, and the coins, the two bright-eyed young girls eagerly anticipate their mother’s homecoming. But when the bank fills up, and with their mother still not back, Big Aunt decides that she can no longer tend to the children. Taken to live on their grandparents’ farm, it is here that Jin comes to learn the importance of family bonds in this beautiful, meditative, and thought-provoking second feature from So Yong Kim, the acclaimed director of “In Between Days.”