“CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR” – Tom Hanks portrays the Texas congressman, who secretly helped Afghanistan beat back the Soviets in the 1980s.

“NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS” – Sequel to the surprise 2004 adventure hit starring Nicolas Cage.

“P.S. I LOVE YOU” – Hilary Swank stars as a widow whose husband left her a few messages before dying.

“SWEENEY TODD” – Johnny Depp takes up the razor as the murderous barber in this Broadway hit.

“THE KITE RUNNER” – After spending years in California, a man returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help an old friend whose son is in trouble.

“THE SAVAGES” – Sister and brother Wendy Savage and Jon Savage, Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman, face the realities of familial responsibility as they care for their ailing father.

“WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY” – If you liked John C. Reilly's comic turn in “Talladega Nights,” you'll get more of him here as a budding rock legend.

“YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH” – Francis Ford Coppola directed and wrote the screenplay based on a novella by Mircea Eliade.

– Dallas Morning News, imdb.com and Union-Tribune