Also Opening This Weekend

IGOR

PG, 86 minutes

John Cusack leads an all-star voice cast that includes Jay Leno, Molly Shannon, John Cleese, Steve Buscemi, and Jennifer Coolidge in this computer-animated comedy about a hunchbacked lab assistant. Igor has earned his Yes Master Degree and knows he has what it takes to win first place in the annual Evil Science fair. So when his cruel master suddenly dies a week before the Fair, Igor enlists the help of some friends around the lab to help him make his dream come true. With Brain (a brain in a jar who isn't as smart as he looks) and Scamper (a jaded bunny who was brought back from being roadkill) on board, Igor sets out to create the evilest invention of all time, and prove that even hunchbacks can be great mad scientists.

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MY BEST FRIEND'S GIRL

R, 111 minutes

Smart, beautiful, and headstrong, Alexis (Kate Hudson) is the girl of Dustin's dreams. But after only five weeks of dating, the love-struck Dustin (Jason Biggs) is coming on too strong and Alexis is forced to slow things down — permanently. Devastated and desperate to win her back, Dustin turns to his best friend, Tank (Dane Cook), the rebound specialist. A master at seducing — and offending — women, Tank gets hired by freshly dumped guys to take their ex-girlfriends out on the worst date of their lives, an experience so horrible it sends them running gratefully back to their beaus. But when Tank and Alexis hit it off, well, you know what comes next.

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QUILOMBO COUNTRY

Unrated, 73 minutes

Brazil, once the world's largest slave colony, was deadly for millions of Africans. But many escaped and rebelled, creating settlements they called quilombos in Brazil's rural hinterland. Largely unknown to the outside world, these communities struggle today to preserve a rich heritage born of resistance to oppression. The documentary "Quilombo Country," which opens Friday at the Two Boots Pioneer Theater, explores Afro-Brazilian village life among the forests and rivers of northern Brazil, featuring rare footage of festivals and ceremonies that blend Catholic, African, and native Amazonian rituals and customs.

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TAKING FATHER HOME

Unrated, 100 minutes

Filmed for almost nothing with a borrowed camera, and featuring a cast of friends and relatives, "Taking Father Home," by the young filmmaker Ying Liang, tells the story of a teenager (Xu Yun) from a remote village who travels to the big city of Zigong with no money and a brace of ducks in a basket on his back. The boy's goal is to find and retrieve his errant father, who walked out on his family six years before. Yun learns a lot upon arriving in Zigong, taking in the sights, smells, and sounds of the city, and manages to express the mood and character of an entire culture with the simplest of touches and basic dialogue.