LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Sundance Film Festival veterans Naomi Watts, Laura Linney and Patricia Clarkson are returning with new movies to the nation's top showcase for independent cinema.

Organizers on Monday announced 16 titles each in the festival's competitions for independent American dramas, U.S. documentaries and world-cinema dramatic features, plus 12 entries for world-cinema documentaries. The festival runs Jan. 20-30 in Park City, Utah.

The quality of the competitions is as strong as we've ever seen, said festival Director Geoffrey Gilmore. The range of different kinds of work coming through this year is going to be surprising to a lot of people.

Keanu Reeves headlines the cast list among the dramatic competition, playing a dentist in writer-director Mike Mills' Thumbsucker, about a boy struggling to break an oral fixation for his thumb.

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