IMovie won't open because it's "being updated" - but there's no iMovie activity in the App Store!

Just today, I tried opening iMovie to work on a project. I get an error message that reads: " You can't open the application "iMovie" because it is being updated." This then kicks me out to the App Store - but there's no iMovie update in progress there. It's driving me insane.
On top of that, when I try to perform the updates WITHIN the app store - Mavericks and some other apps - I click "update" and nothing happens. Any troubleshooting advice? I really need this to work.
I'm on 10.8.5, on a Macbook Pro bought in 2012.

I had this same problem. The way I solved it was to go into the app store, and specifically click on iMovie. The tab there mentioned something like "upgrade" (where normally you would see "buy"). If I click on that, there is a pull down menu that says that I do not have the lastest operating system for the new movie, but that I can reinstall the older version. When I clicked on that option, it reinstalled iMovie (which for some reason just hadn't worked in Mountain Lion). It worked just fine. I didn't have to pay. If you are signed in at the app store, and click on iMovie, hopefully you will be presented with this option as well.

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