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Subscribe to weekly newsletter » Replay Video times & tickets in theaters Fandango Robert De Niro and Bradley Cooper. Search movie Win Win showtimes and buy more current releases » tickets. Limitless one-minute movie reviews BY ROGER EBERT / March 16, 2011 about us still playing I know how Eddie Morra About the site » feels. Like him, I know almost everything, but have cast & credits The Adjustment Bureau Site FAQs » forgotten most of it. We are Another Year told time and again that we Eddie Morra Bradley Cooper Barney's Version Battle: Los Angeles Contact us » use only a small portion of Carl Van Loon Robert De Niro Biutiful our brains and have Lindy Abbie Cornish Email the Movie Blue Valentine enough left over to run Gennady Andrew Howard Answer Man » Cedar Rapids nations in our down time. Melissa Anna Friel Certifiably Jonathan “Limitless” is about Eddie’s Certified Copy adventures after his ex- on sale now Relativity Media presents a film Cold Weather brother-in-law gives him a directed by Neil Burger. Written by The Company Men pill that suddenly puts his Country Strong Leslie Dixon, based on a novel by entire brain online. Drive Angry 3D Alan Glynn. Running time: 105 The Eagle He finishes his novel at minutes. Rated PG-13 (for Even the Rain typing speed. He wins at thematic material involving a drug, The Green Hornet poker, invests in the violence including disturbing Hall Pass market, and runs it up to images, sexuality and language). Hidden Love millions. He fascinates a The Housemaid I Am Number Four woman who had rejected Printer-friendly » I Will Follow E-mail this to a friend » Buy now » him as a loser. He knows The Illusionist intuitively how to handle Inspector Bellamy situations that used to Ip Man 2 baffle him. 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The movie is not terrifically good, but the premise is intriguing; it doesn’t really set out to explore what such a more new on dvd » pill might really to do a person. “Limitless” only uses 15, maybe 20 coming on dvd percent of its brain. Still, that’s more than a lot of movies do. Buy now » Araya (4/5) I Love You Phillip Morris (4/5) Jersey Girl (4/5) Tron (4/5) Tron: Legacy (4/5) DIRECTV® Official Site Dead Man (4/12) Save Now. Get 50% Off DIRECTV® 150 Ch Pkg The Human Stain (4/12) www.DIRECTV.com Ricky (4/12) White Material (4/12) Buy now» Somewhere (4/19) Satellite Direct One time low price of $49.95 for more coming on dvd » http://www.SatelliteThings.com great movies on dvd

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