Get Inside. It's Summertime!

In this full-length anime film, director Michael Arias translates underground manga artist Taiyo Matsumoto's graphic novel, originally published serially in 1993, about the adventures of two street urchins, one with magical powers. (Yari Film Group) Opens New York and Los Angeles, with additional cities to follow.

ARCTIC TALE

Director: Adam Ravetch and Sarah Robertson

From National Geographic Films, a documentary that tracks an Arctic walrus named Seela and a polar bear dubbed Nanu from birth to adolescence to parenthood. (Paramount Vantage) Opens New York and Los Angeles July 20, and additional cities July 29.

CASHBACK

Cast: Sean Biggerstaff, Emilia Fox, Shaun Evans

Director: Sean Ellis

Filmmaker Ellis expands his Oscar-nominated short about a young art student (Biggerstaff) who, suffering from insomnia, goes to work at an all-night market. There he discovers that he can stop time, a trick that allows him to find unexpected beauties (female and otherwise) within the store. (Magnolia) Opens New York and Los Angeles July 20, with additional cities to follow.

FIERCE PEOPLE

Cast: Diane Lane, Anton Yelchin, Donald Sutherland, Elizabeth Perkins

Director: Griffin Dunne

Fifteen-year-old Finn (Yelchin), who dreams of becoming an anthropologist like his absent father, moves with his drug-addicted mother (Diane Lane) to an upscale New Jersey suburb and sets out to study the anthropologically peculiar ways of its wealthy inhabitants. (Lionsgate/After Dark Films) Opens New York and Los Angeles July 20, with additional cities to follow.

GOYA'S GHOSTS

Cast: Stellan Skarsgard, Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman

Director: Milos Forman

Milos Forman, Oscar-winning director of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus, dramatizes the rivalry between Spanish painter Francisco Goya (Skarsgard) and a powerful clergyman (Bardem) who's infatuated with Goya's teenage muse (Portman). (Samuel Goldwyn Films) Opens limited, with additional cities Aug. 3.

HAIRSPRAY

Cast: John Travolta, Queen Latifah, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken

Director: Adam Shankman

Filmmaker John Waters's lifelong dream of invading the suburban multiplexes of America finally comes true with this big-budget version of the hit Broadway play, which in turn was based on Waters's non-musical 1988 comedy. In full drag, John Travolta plays a '50s mom, continuing a tradition set by the late, great and much-missed drag queen Divine, to whom the part will always truly belong. (New Line Cinema) Opens nationwide.

I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU CHUCK AND LARRY

Cast: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Jessica Biel

Director: Dennis Dugan

About Schmidt and Sideways writers Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor go seriously mainstream, joining with cowriter Barry Fanaro (Kingpin) for this broad comedy about two perpetually single New York firefighters who pretend to be lovers in order to receive domestic partnership benefits. (Universal) Opens nationwide.

VANAJA

Cast: Mamatha Bhukya, Urmila Dammannagari

Director: Rajnesh Domalpalli

Using a cast of non-professional actors, first-time filmmaker Domalpalli films a script he wrote as a student at Columbia University. Set in rural South India, it's the story of a 14-year-old girl who takes a job in the home of her landlady and is raped by the landlady's politically powerful son. (New Yorker Films) Opens New York, with additional cities to follow.

JULY 27

FAT GIRLS

Cast: Ash Christian, Jonathan Caouette, Robin De Jesus, Joe Flaten

Director: Ash Christian

Much to the shock of high-school senior Rodney Miller (writer-director Christian), a hot new British student (Flaten) accepts his invitation to the prom. (Regent) Opens New York and Los Angeles July 27, additional cities August 3.

CUT SLEEVE BOYS

Cast: Chowee Leow, Steven Lim, Gareth Rhys Davies

Director: Ray Yeung

After the death of a friend, two perpetually single British Chinese men (Lim and Leow) vow to make themselves over (literally) to find new and lasting love. (Regent) Opens New York and Los Angeles July 27, and additional cites August 17.

I KNOW WHO KILLED ME

Cast: Lindsay Lohan, Julia Ormond, Neal McDonough, Brian Geraghty

Director: Chris Sivertson

After escaping from a sadistic serial killer, a young woman named Aubrey Fleming (Lohan) awakens from a coma to say that she is not who authorities believe she is, and that the real Aubrey Fleming is still out there, in danger. (Sony) Opens nationwide.

MOLIÈRE

Cast: Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini, Laura Morante

Director: Laurent Tirard

Duris, who was extraordinary in 2005's The Beat That My Heart Skipped, stars as the great French playwright Molière. It's 1644 and the 22-year-old starving artist encounters a succession of people who will later inspire and appear in his greatest play, Tartuffe. (Sony Pictures Classics) Opens New York and Los Angeles July 27, with additional cities to follow.

NO RESERVATIONS

Cast: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Aaron Eckhart, Abigail Breslin

Director: Scott Hicks

An acclaimed Manhattan chef (Zeta-Jones) with no time for anything but cooking is suddenly given charge of her nine-year-old niece (little miss sunshine) at the same time a handsome, spirited sous-chef (Eckhart) joins her staff. Sparks fly. (Warner Bros.) Opens nationwide.

SKINWALKERS

Cast: Jason Behr, Elias Koteas, Rhona Mitra

Director: James Isaac

Rival werewolf factions battle over a half-human, half-wolf 13-year-old boy who doesn't yet know that he's going to someday be furrier than the other boys at school. (After Dark Films) Opens nationwide.

THE SIMPSONS MOVIE

Director: David Silverman

Please be funny. (Fox) Opens nationwide.

THE WILLOW TREE

Cast: Parviz Parastui