Today's Sundance highlights

Published: Wednesday, Jan. 26 2005 10:22 a.m. MST

For tickets or more complete listings, go to www.sundance.org.

PARK CITY

"Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 1," with two actors filmed in 1958 and 2002 performing as a contentious interracial couple; Steve Buscemi is among the cast.

8:30 a.m., Library Center: "Pretty Persuasion," a dramatic-competition film, is a social satire with a teenage girl in an exclusive private school in Beverly Hills as its primary character; Evan Rachel Wood, James Woods, Jane Krakowski and Selma Blair star.

8:30 a.m., Prospector Square: "The Salon" is a look at the characters who populate an African-American women's hair salon, with Vivica A. Fox and Terrence Howard among the cast.

9:15 a.m., Eccles: "Me and You and Everyone We Know," a dramatic-competition film, is a romantic comedy about a female cabbie who pursues a newly single shoe salesman.

11:30 a.m., Prospector Square: "New York Doll," a documentary-competition film by Brigham Young University graduate Greg Whiteley profiling former New York Dolls musician and LDS Church convert Arthur "Killer" Kane.

11:30 a.m., Racquet Club: "Thumbsucker," a dramatic-competition film, a comedy about a high-schooler who tries to to stop sucking his thumb; Tilda Swinton, Vincent D'Onofrio, Keanu Reeves, Kelli Garner, Benjamin Bratt and Vince Vaugh star.

Noon, Eccles: "Hustle & Flow," a dramatic-competition film, has a pimp suffering a midlife crisis, as he decides to become a rapper; Terrence Howard, Anthony Anderson, Taryn Manning DJ Qualls and Ludacris star.

12:30, Egyptian: "Wolf Creek," a creepy Australian thriller about a deadly road trip in the outback, has already been purchased for release.

2:30 p.m., Racquet Club: "Brick," a dramatic-competition film with a film-noir style, looks at a high school loner (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) who looks into the murder of a girl he cared for; with Lukas Haas, Noah Fleiss, Richard Roundtree.

3 p.m., Eccles: "Between," a dramatic-competition film, poses existential questions amid the search by an American woman (Poppy Montgomery) for her sister in Tijuana.

2:30 p.m., Library Center: "Heights" has Glenn Close as a Broadway diva who discovers her husband is cheating on her, and whose wedding-photographer daughter (Elizabeth Banks) is going through an identity crisis and fighting with her fiance; Eric Bogosian and Jesse Bradford co-star.

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