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The film begins in the past, laying the groundwork for the curse, and for the film's attempt to mix a contemporary sensibility with an old world feel. We're informed that the Wilhern Family has been able to avoid the curse for decades because the curse was aimed only at Wilhern girls. For generations only boys were born into the family, and the one girl born was a Wilhern in name only (her mother had had an affair with one of the servants). So when Jessica (Catherithe O'Hara) and Franklin (Richard E. Grant) deliver their first child, they are shocked to find that their bouncing bundle of joy has pig ears and a piggy snout. Oink! That's the curse, and it cannot be broken until one of the WIlhern's kind - a blue blood - accepts Penelope. She must find her one true love from among the aristocrats, "one who will love her faithfully" and forever. Not an easy task when you're looking down a pig snout.

Caught between Captain Wander (Whitaker) and Captain Biggs (Laurie) is LAPD Vice Detective Tom Ludlow (Keanu Reeves). From the start of the film we know he's a corrupt cop and one of Wander's boys. The film opens with him setting up some thugs to be killed and then "fixing" the crime scene. Sure he's doing it for a good reason - like Dirty Harry he's trying to rescue kidnapped girls - but he's definitely bending the rules to get the job done. At the crime scene, his ex-partner, an African American cop named Washington (Terry Crews), challenges him and questions his methods. The guys he killed may have been scum, he says, but they had rights. The incident, combined with another murder and a series of other dubious activities soon place Ludlow under the close scrutiny of Biggs. This makes Wander nervous because Ludlow has been his attack dog for years and has enough dirt to bury the captain and the other cops on the team. It doesn't take long for things to spiral out of control with Ludlow uncertain about who he can trust, if anyone.

Is the local real estate market starting to turn around, or is the worst yet to come? We speak to real estate broker Matt Battiata, and real estate economist Gary London about what's happening in the residential and commercial real estate markets.

Blackwater, a private security firm, wants to provide peacekeeping services in Darfur. Private contractors have been hired to provide security in Iraq and other places, with mixed results. But Blackwater says it could work under multinational supervision and help reduce civilian suffering.

The Adhamyah neighborhood is probably the most dangerous in Iraq's turbulent capital. It's now the focus of a house-to-house arms search by U.S. and Iraqi troops. But what happens when the troops leave?

Scientists are reporting a new way to lower cholesterol. The process involves a tool called RNA interference. It uses a snippet of RNA to turn off a single gene at a time. In theory, genes responsible for producing cholesterol could be controlled to help prevent heart disease.

Zombie Replaces Lassie As Boy's Best Friend

Barretos film offers yet another retelling of Shakespeares famous tale of star-crossed lovers. Barretos take on the Bards tragedy gives it a comic twist. Instead of feuding families whose hatred leads to violence and death, Barreto serves up two families with opposing soccer team loyalties in soccer-mad Brazil.

Vantage Point wants to suggest that no one point of view contains the truth but that you can find pieces of the puzzle within each.

With the reality of how much cars are polluting the air, and the ever increasing gas prices, reporter Pat Finn takes a look at some of the options in choosing an environmentally friendly car.