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What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend.

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What's new and/or interesting at Philly theaters this weekend.

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Luc Jacquet has written a love story. And like all love stories, intones grandfatherly narrator Morgan Freeman, it begins with an “act of foolishness.” In this love story, however, it’s not a short skirt or a star-crossed fate that sparks the action – it’s the 70-mile trek of hundreds of emperor penguins to their hallowed South Pole breeding ground, to mate, hatch and guard an egg, eventually raising a chick towards independence. Add 100-mile winds, four-month fasts, and leopard seals to the equation and you have one very foolish love story indeed. Yet it is the seemingly endless nature of the penguins’ struggle that cinches Jacquet’s premise that their condition is not unlike our own. Try as I might to avoid the smattering of coos and sighs of the other moviegoers at the humanity of the penguins; I could not help but be drawn in by the anthropomorphic message. The penguins’ trials and tribulations, set against the striking vision of the stark polar landscape, are shot so intimately that one wonders how the filmmakers got so close to the action - to the wriggle and sheen of the penguin’s ivory underbellies, to the humor of an accidental head-to-flipper collision that provides a comedic break from the otherwise stoic march. It is this intimacy that renders the movie so endearing.