Seven for the season: what's to see after you catch Brokeback Mountain this holiday season? Plenty

1 The Family Stone * December 16 a.k.a.: Attack of the Perfect Liberal Family

The Stone family--led by Craig T. Nelson and Diane Keaton--is such a model of New England liberal acceptance, they evidently think nothing of inviting their gay son's black boyfriend to their home for the holidays. But how will they take to the eldest son (Dermot Mulroney) bringing his formal, tense, career-driven Manhattanite new girlfriend (Sarah Jessica Parker) for the Christmas festivities? (Fox)

2 Memoirs of a Geisha * December 9 a.k.a.: Tea Had It Coming

Steven Spielberg circled this project to direct for years, but ultimately out Chicago director Rob Marshall took the reins, bringing his impeccable sense of visual pageantry to this epic story of a young Japanese girl trained to become a famed geisha (Ziyi Zhang) in pre-World War II Japan. (Columbia)

3 Munich * December 25 a.k.a.: Tony Kushner's War on Terror

This sure-to-be-controversial film about the Israeli military response to the 1972 assassination of 11 Israeli Olympic athletes by Palestinian terrorists was set to go before Steven Spielberg's cameras last year, but instead the director turned the script over to playwright Tony Kushner--yes, that Tony Kushner--and then rushed through production this year. Insert joke about Angels in America's "very Steven Spielberg" line here. (Universal/DreamWorks)

4 Rent * November 23 a.k.a.: The Bohemian AIDS Rock Opera

It's the Pulitzer- and Tony-winning Broadway musical about AIDS, progressive politics, bohemian culture, drag queens, and smokin'-hot lesbians, coming to a multiplex near you, and with a PG-13 rating, no less. (Columbia)

5 The Producers * December 16, limited a.k.a.: The "Gay Hitler Musical Comedy" Musical Comedy

It was 1968 when Mel Brooks first offered up his story of a nebbishy accountant and a theatrical producer who hire a lavishly gay director to mount surefire Broadway failure Springtime for Hitler, and legend has it the film almost wasn't released. Ah, how a record-busting Broadway musical smash can change things. Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Gary Beach, and Roger Bart reprise their Broadway roles, and look for a cameo by Queer Eye's Jai Rodriguez. (Universal)

6 The Libertine * December 23, limited a.k.a.: The Stealth Bisexual Movie

There were reports of a passionate kiss between Johnny Depp (as the scandalously debauched 17th-century poet John Wilmot) and his character's male lover, but alas, even though Wilmot was openly bisexual, the smooch has not made the final film. There does remain a stage show with women handling, um, rather large phallic objects, which, you know, didn't happen all that often back then either. So there's that. (Weinstein)

7 Transamerica * December 23, limited a.k.a.: The Transgender Road Movie

Felicity Huffman won the Tribeca Film Festival Best Actress award for her role as a pre-op MTF traveling cross-country with a teenage son she unknowingly fathered 17 years previous. But Huffman is such a class act she skipped accepting the plaudit so she could kiss fellow Desperate Housewife Marcia Cross at the 2005 GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles. Well, wouldn't you? (Weinstein/IFC Films)

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