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This animated comedy is the follow-up to Ice Age (2002) and Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), and the mammoths Manny (voice of Ray Romano) and Ellie (voice of Queen Latifah), the sloth Sid (voice of John Leguizamo), the saber-toothed tiger Diego (voice of Denis Leary) and the possums (voices of Seann William Scott and Josh Peck) are all back. This time around the gang goes under the ice and find themselves in a world populated by dinosaurs, and Sid adopts three of their eggs. There's also a new character, the weasel Buck (voice of Simon Pegg).

A mostly Hispanic cast is featured in this comedy about a family reuniting at Christmastime. The setting is Chicago's Puerto Rican community, where Edy Rodriguez (Alfred Molina) owns a bodega and lives with his wife (Elizabeth Peña). Their three adult offspring return home for the holidays, and the family has issues to work through. One son (John Leguizamo) is married and brings his non-Latina wife (Debra Messing), while another son (Freddy Rodriquez) is just back from Iraq. Their daughter (Vanessa Ferlito) is a struggling actress, awaiting a call from her agent.

Woody Allen wrote and directed this talky comedy that stars Larry David (TV's Curb Your Enthusiasm) as the filmmaker's alter ego. The central character is physicist Boris Yellnikoff (David), a curmudgeon who ends up living in a shabby Manhattan apartment and eking out a living teaching chess to little kids. One day he meets a troubled young woman from Mississippi named Melody (Evan Rachel Wood), and despite the big difference in their ages, they get married. Eventually, Melody's mother (Patricia Clarkson) and father (Ed Begley Jr.) come to New York.