The Sundance Film Festival schedule for Peery's Egyptian Theater, 2415 Washington Blvd., Ogden
* "I Am Love," 6:30 p.m. Jan. 22. (Italy) English subtitles. Starring Tilda Swinton. In the villa of a wealthy Italian family, the Recchis prepare to celebrate the birthday of their patriarch, struggle with change, and one of them considers an affair.
* "Hesher," 6:30 p.m. Jan. 23. (USA) Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Natalie Portman, Rainn Wilson. A 13-year-old loses his mother in an accident, leaving him and his grieving dad to move in with grandma to pick up the pieces. Hesher (Gordon-Levitt), a loner who hates the world and everyone in it, moves in. This film has major festival buzz.
* "Homewrecker," 9:30 p.m. Jan. 23. (USA) Mike is a locksmith and a prisoner on work release. He's trying to focus on his house calls and reconcile with his ex-girlfriend when a stranger, Margo, hijacks his day. A live-wire kook who's certain her boyfriend is cheating on her, Margo makes Mike spy on the alleged cad.
* "Waiting for Superman," 3:30 p.m. Jan. 24. (USA) Director Davis Guggenheim ("An Inconvenient Truth") turns his documentary lens on students who are let down by the public education system.
* "Boy," 6:30 p.m. Jan. 24. (New Zealand) It's 1984, and Michael Jackson is king, even in Waihau Bay, New Zealand. Boy, 11, lives on a farm with his grandmother. She leaves for a week, and Boy's father, Alamein, appears out of the blue. Having imagined a heroic version of his father during his absence, Boy comes face to face with the real version: an incompetent hoodlum who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years before. Screens with the short "My Rabit Hoppy."
* "Sympathy for Delicious," 7 p.m. Jan. 25. (USA) Starring Christopher Thornton, Mark Ruffalo, Juliette Lewis, Orlando Bloom, Laura Linney. A recently paralyzed DJ battles the mean streets of Los Angeles, struggling to survive in his wheelchair and becoming involved with faith healing.
* "Bran Nue Dae," 7 p.m. Jan. 26. (Australia) Featuring Geoffrey Rush. This is a screen adaptation of a stage musical. It's the summer of 1969, and with his evangelical mother pointing him toward the priesthood, young Willie attends a Catholic boarding school in Perth but, protesting its strict rules, runs away to his homeland with Father Benedictus (Rush) in hot pursuit.
* "happythankyoumoreplease," 7 p.m. Jan. 27. (USA) Sam is a struggling New York writer having a bad day who finds a lost boy on the subway and brings him home, leading to a friendship. Described as a wryly funny script about young people on the cusp of truly growing up.
* "Skateland," 7 p.m. Jan. 28. (USA) It's 1983, and Skateland, the roller rink and local hangout of a small town, is past its prime and fading. The manager, Ritchie, 19, deals with tragedy among his friends and family, and must make a decision about his future.
* "Please Give," 6:30 p.m. Jan. 29. (USA) Starring Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt. A married couple live in Manhattan with their teenage daughter. Wanting to expand their apartment, they buy the unit next door, planning to knock out the walls. However, before doing so, they have to wait for the occupant, a cranky elderly woman, to die.
* "Nowhere Boy," 9:30 p.m. Jan. 29. (United Kingdom) Growing up in Liverpool in 1955, and raised by his aunt, John Lennon is a smart and spirited, but directionless, teen who skips school, steals records and is told he's going nowhere. His estranged mother encourages John's interest in music, a journey that leads to The Beatles.
* "Mother & Child," 3:30 p.m. Jan. 30. (USA/Spain) Starring Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Jimmy Smits, Samuel L. Jackson. Destiny plays a part in the lives of three women: a 50-year-old physical therapist, the daughter she gave up for adoption 35 years earlier, and a woman looking to adopt her first child.
* "Get Low," 6:30 p.m. Jan. 30. (USA) Starring Bill Murray, Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek. Duvall plays a miserable old hermit in 1930s Tennessee who hatches a plan to throw himself a "funeral party." Sold out.
* "The Romantics," 9:30 p.m. Jan. 30. (USA) Starring Katie Holmes, Josh Duhamel, Anna Paquin. Seven close friends, all members of an eclectic college clique, reconvene for a wedding and wrestle with old rivalries.
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