Movies.com New This Week in Theaters
Movies.com: The new movies in theaters

Speed Racer
( Release: May. 9, 2008   Rated: PG - for sequences of action, some violence and language   Avg. Score: 2.25/5     Details | Tickets | Trailers | Photos | Reviews  ) — Based on the classic children's cartoon, Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch) is a young hotshot race-car driver who has a good support team behind him, including his mom (Susan Sarandon), dad (John Goodman) and girlfriend, Trixie (Christina Ricci). With his powerful race-winning Mach 5 vehicle, Speed angers a ruthless mogul (Roger Allam) who is out to control the world of professional racing by "fixing" the competitions. Teaming up with the mysterious Racer X (Matthew Fox), Speed attempts to win the Crucible cross-country rally and keep the sport he loves honest.

What Happens in Vegas
( Release: May. 9, 2008   Rated: PG-13 - for some sexual and crude content, and language,including a drug reference   Avg. Score: 1.75/5     Details | Tickets | Trailers | Photos | Reviews  ) — Two random strangers (Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher) wake up in a Vegas hotel room and discover that they got married to each other during a night of drunken debauchery. They also learn that one of them won a huge jackpot while playing slots with the other's quarter. They must then spend the entire day retracing their steps to figure out who owns the lucky coin and who actually owns the jackpot.

The Fall
( Release: May. 9, 2008   Rated: R - for some violent images   Avg. Score: 3/5     Details | Tickets | Trailers | Photos | Reviews  ) — In Los Angeles in the 1920s, a young girl named Alexandria (Catinca Untaru) rests in a hospital while recovering from a nasty fall. She quickly makes friends with Roy Walker (Lee Pace) who entertains her with a wild fantasy tale that has Charles Darwin (Leo Bill) and a team of fighters going up against an evil prince.

Surfwise
( Release: May. 9, 2008   Rated: R - for language and some sexual material   Avg. Score: 4/5     Details | Tickets | Trailers | Photos | Reviews  ) — Meet Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz, a doctor who had a successful practice then left it all behind in the 1960s to travel to Israel to introduce that country to the art of surfing. Living in a tiny motor home, Doc raised nine children by homeschooling them in the ways of the world. This documentary tells their very real — and very strange — story.

Noise
( Release: May. 9, 2008   Rated: Not Rated   Avg. Score: 3/5     Details | Tickets | Trailers | Photos | Reviews  ) — David Owen (Tim Robbins) loves living in NYC. However, he's slowly being driven insane by the constant barrage of sounds. Dubbing himself the "Rectifier," David goes out to reduce the amount of urban noise. First he goes after idiots who ignore their car alarms, but he slowly works his way up to the city's biggest offender: the mayor (William Hurt).

The Tracey Fragments
( Release: May. 9, 2008   Rated: Not Rated   Avg. Score: 4/5     Details | Tickets | Trailers | Photos | Reviews  ) — Tracey Berkowitz (Ellen Page) has a problem: She's stuck on a bus during a horrific blizzard with only a thin curtain wrapped around her naked body to keep her warm. Worse still: She's desperate to find her missing brother, whom she thinks she's hypnotized.

The Babysitters
( Release: May. 9, 2008   Rated: R - for disturbing strong sexual content, language and some drug use - involving teens   Avg. Score: 1/5     Details | Tickets | Trailers | Photos | Reviews  ) — Shirley Lyner (Katherine Waterston) is a high school student who makes some good money babysitting for various parents in her town. When one of her clients, Mr. Beltran (John Leguizamo), kisses her while giving her a ride home one night, he also gives her a little extra money along with her regular earnings. Eventually, Shirley finds herself pimping out her teenage friends to other dads who need a "babysitter," but as her business becomes increasingly popular, it also comes violently crashing down around her.

Frontier(s)
( Release: May. 9, 2008   Rated: Unrated   Avg. Score: 2/5     Details | Tickets | Photos | Reviews  ) — After a heist job goes incredibly wrong, a quartet of crooks run from the police and hide out at a dingy hotel in the middle of nowhere. Unfortunately, the hotel is run by a family of neo-Nazi cannibals who are thrilled that such a scrumptious feast has landed at their establishment.

Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
( Release: May. 9, 2008   Rated: Not Rated   Avg. Score: 3.75/5     Details | Tickets | Photos | Reviews  ) — Feeling nostalgic, Arbie (Jason Yachanin) decides to visit the spot of his first romantic encounter: the Ancient Tromahawk Tribe Indian Burial Ground. However, when he shows up, the burial ground is gone and has been replaced by an American Chicken Bunker fast-food restaurant. Meanwhile, his old girlfriend Wendy (Kate Graham) has become a corporate-hating lesbian. To get back at her, Arbie gets a job at the Chicken Bunker where he starts to notice bizarre happenings, including a series of gruesome deaths.

A Previous Engagement
( Release: May. 9, 2008   Rated: Not Rated   Avg. Score: 1.5/5     Details | Tickets | Trailers | Photos | Reviews  ) — Julia Reynolds (Juliet Stevenson) convinces her husband Jack (Daniel Stern) to go on a vacation with her to the Mediterranean island of Malta. However, her motives for going on the trip is less than pure. Twenty-five years previously, she promised her first love, Alex (Tcheky Karyo), that she would meet him there. When the former lovers are reunited, Jack searches for a romance of his own and begins dating and dancing with an ex-chorus girl (Valerie Mahaffey).