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AWAKE
A hospital patient (Hayden Christensen, out from behind the Darth Vader mask he wore in "Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith") finds himself conscious, but totally paralyzed, while undergoing open-heart surgery as his wife (Jessica Alba) wrestles with her own demons. Lena Olin and Terrence Howard co-star for writer-director Joby Harold. At multiple locations. (84 minutes) R; profanity, intense disturbing situations, brief drug use.
BLADE RUNNER: FINAL CUT
Director Ridley Scott's landmark 1982 science-fiction noir -- adapted from Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" -- returns for a one-week, 25th-anniversary run featuring the version Scott's been working on for seven years. (A 10th-anniversary director's cut played theaters in 1992.) Harrison Ford stars as a hard-boiled cop in dystopian 2019 Los Angeles tracking rebellious "replicants" led by the crazed Rutger Hauer. Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, Joanna Cassidy and Daryl Hannah co-star. At the Cannery. (120 minutes) R; violence, brief nudity.
HOLLY
An expatriate American smuggler (Ron Livingston) befriends a Vietnamese 12-year-old (Thuy Nguyen) whose parents have sold her to a Cambodian brothel, then sets out to rescue her after she's sold yet again -- to a sex trafficker. Udo Kier, Virginie Ledoyen and Chris Penn (who died shortly after completing this role) co-star in a documentary-fiction hybrid filmed in Phnom Penh's red-light district. In English, Khmer and Vietnamese, with English subtitles. At Boulder and Village Square. (113 minutes) R; language, sexuality.
ONE MORE CHANCE
After five years together, an architect (Bea Alonso) at the same firm as her engineer fiance (John Lloyd Cruz) tires of his controlling ways, opting out of the relationship and calling it quits -- until she has second thoughts -- in this Filipino romance featuring Maja Salvador and Derek Ramsay. In Tagalog. At Village Square. (115 minutes). (No American rating: PG-13 rating in the Philippines).
-- By CAROL CLING
