Four new movies will hit theaters this weekend: a touching comedy, a drama based on true-life, a computer game-inspired action flick and a psychological thriller.
“Shopgirl,” a modern-day love story based on Steve Martin’s best-selling novella of the same name, stars Martin, Claire Danes and Jason Schwartzman caught in a love triangle. Mirabelle (Danes) is a “plain Jane” aspiring artist who must work at the lonely glove counter at the Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills in order to make ends meet. It’s there that she meets Ray Porter (Martin), a much older, much richer fifty-something ready to sweep her off of her feet. But Mirabelle is also being pursued by Jeremy (Schwartzman), a simple bachelor lacking the dignified status and the loaded wallet that Porter can provide. What will her heart want in the end? (Rated R)
“North Country” also opens this weekend. Based on a true story from the late ’70s, Charlize Theron plays Josey Aimes, a working divorcee who must return to her hometown in Minnesota to support her children. Aimes begins working in an iron mine, but soon finds that the attention from the male miners is anything but welcome. Aimes attempts to stand up for herself, but the women she works with fear losing their well-paying job in a time when jobs were difficult to find. Aimes finds herself caught in a war of words and the focus of national attention after filing a sexual harassment suit against the mine owners, putting her family’s future in jeopardy. (Rated R)
“Doom,” a computer-game-inspired alien-fighting action film starring The Rock and Karl Urban blasts its way onto the big screen this weekend. After something goes terribly wrong at a remote scientific research station on Mars, the Rapid Response Tactical Squad – hardened Marines armed to the teeth – must go in and show the alien enemy who is boss. Their orders: Nothing gets out alive. But will they? (Rated R)
“Stay” is also heating theaters this Friday. This thriller stars Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. Gosling plays Henry Letham, a distraught young man who announces to his psychiatrist, Sam Foster (McGregor), that he plans to commit suicide in three days. Letham begins predicting the future and Foster’s world turns upside down when the world between the living and the dead becomes blurred. (Rated R)

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