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Here's the list of films to be released in theaters this week:

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Benjamin Mee is a recently-widowed father who moves his family to a beautiful estate miles outside the city. The only catch is that the estate is also a dilapidated zoo replete with 200 animals, and the purchase of the home is conditional on the new owner keeping the zoo and its entire staff. The Mee family subsequently sets out to rebuild and refurbish the zoo to its former glory, making new friends along the way.

Release Date: December 23rd, 2011

Synopsis: Oskar is convinced that his father, who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, has left a final message for him hidden somewhere in the city. Feeling disconnected from his grieving mother and driven by a relentlessly active mind that refuses to believe in things that canÂ’t be observed, Oskar begins searching New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he found in his father's closet. His journey through the five boroughs takes him beyond his own loss to a greater understanding of the observable world around him.

Release Date: December 25th, 2011

Synopsis: In Nanjing, China, circa 1937, an American watches as refugees flock to a church to flee the violence of the Sino-Japanese War.

Release Date: December 23rd, 2011

Synopsis: A love affair blooms between a Bosnian woman and a Serbian man during war in the 1990s.

Release Date: December 23rd, 2011

Synopsis: The friendship between a boy and a horse who are separated but whose fates continue to be intertwined over the course of World War I.

Release Date: December 28th, 2011

Synopsis: Fve young people find themselves stranded in Moscow, fighting to survive in the wake of a devastating alien attack.

Release Date: December 25th, 2011

Synopsis: A cat who turns into a young woman retains some of her feline characteristics and helps a journalist to gather news for the front page of his local newspaper. With the help of Minoes, who can talk to the cats in the small town, he soon discovers that the popular chairman of the "Club For Friends of Animals" and boss of a nearby factory has evil plans...

Release Date: December 23rd, 2011

Synopsis: Homage to late choreographer Pina Bausch (1940-2009), a leading influence in the development of the Tanztheater style of dance. Bausch was the artistic head of Tanztheater Wuppertal, a German group that fuses modern dance with theatrical flourishes into a kind of hybrid art form. Lewis Segal, former Times dance critic, said that "it is limiting to call her a choreographer; she liked the term 'dance theater.' She was important because she thought everything belonged together -- speech, movement, design, commenting on the audience."

Release Date: December 23rd, 2011

Synopsis: A newly wedded couple's honeymoon period is upended by the arrival of the husband's wild-child baby sister and the crumbling marriage of the wife's meddlesome sister.

Release Date: December 26th, 2011

Synopsis: Alike is a 17-year-old African-American woman who lives with her parents and younger sister in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood. Alike is quietly but firmly embracing her identity as a lesbian. With the support of her best friend, Laura, she is especially eager to find a girlfriend. Wondering how much she can confide in her family, Alike strives to get through adolescence with grace, humor, and tenacity - sometimes succeeding, sometimes not, but always moving forward.

Release Date: December 28th, 2011

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