December 2002
December 6
    Wide
    Analyze That
     
Main Cast: Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow
Director: Harold Ramis
Distributor: Warner Bros.
Rating: Not yet rated
    Empire
     
Main Cast: John Leguizamo, Sonia Braga, Denise Richards, Isabella Rossellini, Peter Sarsgaard
Director: Franc Reyes
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Rating: Not yet rated
    Limited
    Adaptation
     
Rating: Not yet rated
    Blackboards
     
Main Cast: Said Mohamadi, Behnaz Jafari, Bahman Ghobadi
Director: Samira Makhmalbaf
Distributor: Leisure Time Features
Rating: Not yet rated
    Equilibrium
     
Rating: Not yet rated
    To End All Wars
     
Main Cast: Robert Carlyle, Kiefer Sutherland, Ciaran McMenamin, Mark Strong, Sakae Kimura, Masayuki Yui, James Cosmo
Director: David L. Cunningham
Distributor: Premiere Marketing and Distribution Group
Rating: R
Running Time: 117 min
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December 13
    Wide
    Drumline
     
Main Cast: Nick Cannon, Zoe Saldana, Orlando Jones
Director: Charles Stone III
Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox
Rating: Not yet rated
    Maid in Manhattan
     
Main Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Ralph Fiennes
Director: Wayne Wang
Distributor: Sony/Columbia
Rating: Not yet rated
    Star Trek: Nemesis
     
Main Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Fraks
Director: Stuart Baird
Distributor: Paramount
Rating: Not yet rated
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    The Hot Chick
     
Rating: Not yet rated
    Limited
    About Schmidt
     
Main Cast: Jack Nicholson, Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney, Kathy Bates
Director: Alexander Payne
Distributor: New Line Cinema
Rating: Not yet rated
    Evelyn
     
Main Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Vavasseur, Juliana Margulies, Alan Bates, John Lynch, Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea
Director: Bruce Beresford
Distributor: MGM
Rating: Not yet rated
December 18
    Wide
    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
     
Main Cast: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen
Director: Peter Jackson
Distributor: New Line Cinema
Rating: Not yet rated
December 20
    Wide
    Antwone Fisher
     
Main Cast: Denzel Washington, Derek Luke
Director: Denzel Washington
Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox
Rating: Not yet rated
    Gangs of New York
     
Main Cast: Leondaro DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Daniel Day-Lewis
Director: Martin Scorsese
Distributor: Miramax
Rating: Not yet rated
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    The Wild Thornberrys Movie
     
Main Cast: Brenda Blethyn, Jodi Carlisle, Lacey Chabert, Tim Curry
Director: Cathy Malkasian, Jeff McGrath
Distributor: Paramount
Rating: Not yet rated
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    Two Weeks Notice
     
Main Cast: Hugh Grant, Sandra Bullock
Director: Marc Lawrence
Distributor: Warner Bros.
Rating: Not yet rated
    Limited
    The 25th Hour
     
Main Cast: Edward Norton
Director: Spike Lee
Distributor: Touchstone Pictures
Rating: Not yet rated
December 22
    Limited
    Narc
     
Main Cast: Ray Liotta, Jason Patric
Director: Joe Carnahan
Distributor: Lions Gate Films
Rating: R
Running Time: 105 min
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December 25
    Wide
    Catch Me If You Can
     
Main Cast: Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio
Director: Steven Spielberg
Distributor: DreamWorks
Rating: Not yet rated
    Pinocchio
     
Main Cast: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Carlo Giuffre, Mino Bellei, Kim Rossi Stuart, Alessandro Bergonzoni, Corrado Pani, Vincenzo Cerami
Director: Roberto Benigni
Distributor: Miramax
Rating: Not yet rated
December 27
    Limited
    Chicago
     
Main Cast: Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Director: Rob Marshall
Distributor: Miramax
Rating: Not yet rated
    Max (2002)
     
Main Cast: Noah Taylor, John Cusack
Director: Menno Meyjes
Distributor: Lions Gate
Rating: Not yet rated
    The Hours
     
Main Cast: Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep
Director: Stephen Daldry
Distributor: Paramount
Rating: Not yet rated
    The Pianist
     
Main Cast: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Emilia Fox, Ed Stoppard
Director: Roman Polanski
Distributor: Focus Features
Rating: Not yet rated
December 30
    Limited
    Love Liza
     
Main Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kathy Bates, Jack Kehler, Stephen Tobolowsky
Director: Todd Louiso
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Rating: Not yet rated
December 31
    Limited
    Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
     
Main Cast: George Clooney, Sam Rockwell, Julia Roberts, Drew Barrymore
Director: George Clooney
Distributor: Miramax
Rating: Not yet rated

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