Forget the box-office statistics. We all know 2009 was a big year, more than $10 billion in tickets sold. And dig beyond which marketing campaigns were the slickest and which studio had the most market share. That’s all important at a certain level, but what does the year tell us about the kinds of stories and the styles of filmmaking that resonate with Americans at a time of economic anxiety and partisan animosity?
Some of the movies you may remember:
- Inglorious Basterds
- Duplicity
- The Soloist
- Watchmen
- Saw VI
- The Hangover
- The Proposal
- Did You Hear About the Morgans?
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- 2012
- District 9
- Star Trek
- Up
- Monsters vs. Aliens
- Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
- Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
- Avatar
- Julie & Julia
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