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Sony Pictures Will Smith plays a ladies man extraordinaire (wow, what a stretch) who tries to teach his ways to Kevin James in Hitch.

Hitch / Will Smith wants to be your Valentine, or at least your Valentine's date destination, with Hitch. Smith plays Alex "Hitch" Hitchens, a man who officially works as a "consultant," but unofficially is a New York legend known as the "date doctor." Hitch helps men get out of their own way in order to find happiness with the women they love. He seems to be making good progress with an accountant (Kevin James) smitten with an heiress (Amber Valletta), but the master turns into a bumbling novice when he falls for a gossip columnist (Eva Mendes) who likes to keep men at a distance. Adam Arkin, Julie Ann Emery, Michael Rapaport, Jeffrey Donovan and Philip Bosco co-star for director Andy Tennant (Sweet Home Alabama, Ever After ).

Pooh's Heffalump Movie / Winnie the Pooh and pals face their fears and make new friends in Pooh's Heffalump Movie. In this animated family film, the Hundred Acre Wood trembles with a hidden danger suspected of being the mysterious creatures known as Heffalumps. Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Rabbit and Roo set off on a great expedition to capture a Heffalump and wind up celebrating diversity (shades of the SpongeBob scandal!). Jim Cummings, John Fiedler, Ken Sansom, David Ogden Stiers and Brenda Blethyn head the vocal cast for director Frank Nissen.

Two films test the waters in limited release next week before possibly heading into the hinterlands:

Bride & Prejudice / Director Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham ) gives Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice a Bollywood reworking in a modern intercultural romance set in India in which an Indian beauty (Aishwarya Rai) and a snooty Californian (Martin Henderson) clash and then connect.

Inside Deep Throat / Party Monster directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato explore the cultural impact of the 1972 porn flick Deep Throat, hailed as the most profitable film of all time and the first porno to engage a mainstream audience, in this documentary.