Holiday Movie Preview 2008

December 4, 2008 10:12 a.m. EST

Ah, December at the movies.

With the year's final month upon us and the big-screen lineup finally set, here's the baker's dozen of mainstream movie attractions opening on the big screen over the holiday season between now and the end of the calendar year:

Keanu Reeves stars as a visitor from another planet in the remake of the 1951 science fiction thriller, "The Day the Earth Stood Still."

Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, and Philip Seymour Hoffman play two nuns and a priest working at a 1950s Catholic school in the Bronx in the big-screen adaptation of the John Patrick Shanley stage drama, "Doubt."

Will Smith stars as an Internal Revenue Service agent who vows to help seven strangers as a means to redemption in the drama, "Seven Pounds."

Frank Langella portrays Richard Nixon and Michael Sheel television interviewer David Frost in director Ron Howard's adaptation of the stage play, "Frost/Nixon."

Jim Carrey must respond in the affirmative to everything requested of him for an entire year in the comedy, "Yes Man."

Clint Eastwood directs himself as a cranky war veteran whose prize possession is his 1972 car in the drama, "Gran Torino."

Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston co-star in the comedy about a lovable dog based on the best-selling memoir by John Grogan, "Marley & Me."

A rookie cop comes back from the dead in black mask and fedora in the comic-book-inspired CGI thriller, "The Spirit."

Brad Pitt plays a man who ages in reverse and Cate Blanchett the woman he loves in director David Fincher's version of the F. Scott Fitzgerald story, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."

Tom Cruise stars as a German soldier leading an attempted coup against Hitler in the thriller, "Valkyrie."

Kate Winslet plays a German woman on trial and Ralph Fiennes as the man who had an affair with her in his youth in the movie version of the best-seller, "The Reader."

Two rodents try to revive a sagging fairy-tale kingdom in the animated adventure,"The Tale of Despereaux."

And Adam Sandler stars as a handyman who reads bedside tales to his niece and nephew that start coming true in the family fantasy, "Bedtime Stories."

Enjoy!