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Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News

The 2009 Sundance Film Festival kicked off under starless skies. While recent festivals have been star-studded and celebrity-laden affairs, on the opening day of 2009 there were few, if any, familiar faces to be seen anywhere in or near Park City.

Cast helps 'Defiance'

'Hotel for Dogs'

Film on fashion

Karen Ballard, Paramount Vantage

There are certain things that we now expect from an Ed Zwick film - among these are that there will be at least one rousing speech given while a character is on horseback.

'Hotel for Dogs'

Film on fashion

Sundance opens

Jaimie Trueblood, Dreamworks LLC

There really is no good reason for Don Cheadle to be in "Hotel for Dogs," unless perhaps he's somehow contractually obliged to appear in every movie that features the word "hotel" in its title.

Film on fashion

Sundance opens

Cast helps 'Defiance'

Sundance Film Festival

Director R.J. Cutler will be there for Friday's opening night gala at the Rose Wagner Center, as will the sometimes controversial Wintour.

Sundance opens

Cast helps 'Defiance'

'Hotel for Dogs'

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Walt Kowalski, an iron-willed veteran living in a changing world, who is forced by his immigrant neighbors to confront his own long-held prejudices. The people he once called his neighbors have all moved or passed away, replaced by Hmong immigrants

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Liv and Emma are best friends who since childhood have planned every detail of their respective weddings. At the top of their bridal "must have" list: a ceremony at New York's ultimate bridal destination, the Plaza Hotel. Now, at age 26, they

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Casey Beldon hated her mother for leaving her as a child. But when inexplicable things start to happen, Casey begins to understand why she left. Plagued by merciless dreams and a tortured ghost that haunts her waking hours, she must turn to

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As the snow falls on their wedding night, newlyweds John and Jenny Grogan decide to leave behind the harsh winters of Michigan and head south to begin their new lives in West Palm Beach, Fla. They obtain jobs as journalists at competing local

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"I was born under unusual circumstances." And so begins "Benjamin Button," adapted from the classic 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his 80s and ages backwards. A man, like any of us, unable to stop time. We follow

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The life of Skeeter Bronson, a hotel handyman, is changed forever when the bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to mysteriously come true. He attempts to take advantage of the phenomenon, incorporating his own aspirations into

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A proud military man, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg is a loyal officer who serves his country all the while hoping that someone will find a way to stop Hitler before Europe and Germany are destroyed. Realizing that time is running out, he decides

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Carl Allen's life is going nowhere--the operative word being "no"--until he signs up for a self-help program based on one simple covenant: say yes to everything--and anything. Unleashing the power of "YES" begins to transform Carl's life in

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A couple's strength and faith are tested after the wife is injured in a car crash and husband becomes attracted to another woman.

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Ben Thomas, an IRS agent with a fateful secret, embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.

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