Why won't iMovie open my project?

This is extremely aggravating, iMovie suddenly wont open 2 of my projects. I was working on them for hours and finally got them how i wanted them to be, and when i go to open it later, it won't open! All that happens when I click on it is that it lets me change the name. Even worse, I tried to recreate the projects, I started working, left to do something else, and now it wont let me open one of them, and the other lost all my clips, (went from 10 minutes to 19 seconds). I checked around and tried all I could, deleting the preference file, i made sure the files where in the imovie folder, emptying space on imovie, and nothing works!! Please respond if you have any ideas........
P.S. it is the most updated version of imovie '11 9.0 on a macbook pro

Mary, You've posted this question in the wrong area.
iMovie '11 is for Mac.  You've posted in the iOS section for iPhone, iPad etc.

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