The Associated Press
Kevin Bacon and Courtney Cox are among actors whose films are entered in the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, an annual 11-day movie party staged in Utah.
Monday, Festival officials announced entries for dramatic, documentary and "American Spectrum" categories of the festival, which kicks off Jan. 15 in Park City.
Bacon and his wife, Kyra Sedgwick, are teamed with hip-hop artist Mos Def in The Woodsman, a drama directed by Nicole Kassell that tells the story of a convicted child molester trying to rebuild his life.
Other dramatic entries include We Don't Live Here Anymore, the story of a man's affair with his best friend's wife. The film, directed by John Curran, stars Mark Ruffalo, Laura Dern, Peter Krause and Naomi Watts.
Cox stars in November, directed by Greg Harrison. The actress plays Sophie Jacobs, a photographer who struggles to cope after her boyfriend is shot to death in a convenience store.
Festival director Geoffrey Gillmore said November exemplifies the thread of anxiety running through many of this year's films.
"This is the first group of movies" conceived and produced since Sept. 11, 2001, he said. "There's a sense of anxiety - in a lot of the work, a sense of disruption."
Documentary entries include Chisholm '72 - Unbought and Unbossed, an examination of Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm's 1972 presidential bid; The Fight, a look at the historic heavyweight boxing match between American Joe Louis and German Max Schmeling on the eve of World War II; and Word Wars, an examination of the lives of expert Scrabble players.
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