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ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS
Everybody's favorite singing chipmunks add rap to their repertoire in a live-action/animation combo starring Jason Lee (TV's "My Name Is Earl") as David Seville, who loses control of the computer-generated title cuties (voiced by Justin Long, Las Vegas native Matthew Gray Gubler and Jesse McCartney) to an evil music executive (an overzealous David Cross). At multiple locations. (92 minutes) PG; mild rude humor.
ATONEMENT
Keira Knightley reunites with "Pride & Prejudice" director Joe Wright for this drama, set in 1935 Britain, about an imaginative 13-year-old (Saoirse Ronan) whose misunderstanding of the flirtation between a servant's son ("The Last King of Scotland's" James McAvoy) and her older sister (Knightley) leads to life-changing consequences that follow them all through World War II. Vanessa Redgrave, Romola Garai and Brenda Blethyn co-star; Oscar-winning screenwriter Christopher Hampton ("Dangerous Liaisons") adapts Ian McEwan's novel. At the Suncoast. (123 minutes) R; disturbing war images, profanity, sexual situations.
THE PERFECT HOLIDAY
A single mother (Gabrielle Union) falls for a struggling songwriter (Morris Chestnut) working as a shopping-mall Santa, prompting her 10-year-old son to try and reunite his mom with his rap impresario father (Charlie Murphy). Queen Latifah plays Mother Christmas; Terrence Howard is her comic foil, Bah Humbug. At multiple locations. (96 minutes) PG; brief profanity, suggestive humor.
-- By CAROL CLING
