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Amy Adams projects an All-American girl-next-door quality that has charmed a following of admirers.

A simple wooden box arrives on the doorstep of a married couple , giving them the chance at a million dollars -- but only, as a mysterious stranger explains, at the cost of someone else's life.

Disney tends to own the long Thanksgiving box-office weekend, and this year should be no different.

Being the first fall screener out is about as meaningful in the long run as being the first person chosen in your junior-high punchball game.

There are hints of the fashion icon and early feminist that Coco Chanel was to become in Coco Before Chanel , though the film focuses on the period in her life just before she became a famous designer.

Jill Wagner was 15 and sitting in Cinnabon at Hanes Mall with a friend when a stranger approached and asked if he could shoot her picture.

Alessandro Nivola, Elisabeth Shue and Abigail Breslin "He's in love with rock 'n' roll, whoahh!" Alessandro Nivola, Elisabeth Shue and Abigail Breslin have been cast in the indie drama "Janie Jones," along with Frank Whaley, Brittany Snow, Peter Stormare and Joel David Moore.

To speak terrible, often silly lines and make them sound plausible is a rare acting skill.

BIRTHDAY GAL: Actress Amy Adams was born in Vicenza, Italy, on this date in 1974.

Like their old studio-system counterparts, they've spent enough hours in front of a camera to keep their heads above water when the scripts threaten to drown them in mediocrity.

Call them the New Reliables -- the screen performers we've come to count on through thick and thin, in good films and bad, in leading roles as well as supporting turns.

Amy Adams had "growing pains" when she turned 30. The 34-year-old actress feared she would never make it in the film industry and her neuroses almost got the better of her when she hit the landmark age.

It's every blogger's dream: your online diary draws thousands of readers, garnering coverage in The New York Times.

Amy Adams has a smile that plays big, taking over her face, then the room, then everyone in it.

Amy Adams has a smile that plays big, taking over her face, then the room, then everyone in it.

Amy Adams has a smile that plays big, taking over her face, then the room, then everyone in it.

Amy Adams has a smile that plays big, taking over her face, then the room, then everyone in it.

Amy Adams and Chris Messina play husband and wife in the new movie "Julie & Julia," in theaters tomorrow.

"She didn't want to talk about it," Julie Powell says of her quest to cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking." When turning 30, Julie Powell felt as if she was hitting a wall.

In Julie & Julia, Amy Adams plays a woman who is facing the prospect of turning 30 and not feeling too good about herself.