Movies Released December 25, 2011

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The Darkest Hour 2,200 theaters

Olivia Thirlby Emile Hirsch Rachael Taylor Joel Kinnaman

Follows five young people who find themselves stranded in Moscow, fighting to survive in the wake of a devastating alien attack.

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War Horse Nationwide

Tom Hiddleston Jeremy Irvine Emily Watson David Thewlis

Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War. War Horse begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a you... moreng man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets--British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter--before the story reaches its emotional climax in the heart of No Man's Land. The First World War is experienced through the journey of this horse--an odyssey of joy and sorrow, passionate friendship and high adventure.

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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Limited

Sandra Bullock Tom Hanks Thomas Horn John Goodman

Eleven-year-old Oskar Schell is an exceptional child: amateur inventor, Francophile, pacifist. And after finding a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in... more the World Trade Center on 9/11, he embarks on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. As Oskar roams the city, he encounters a variety of individuals, all survivors in their own way. Ultimately, Oskar’s journey ends where it began, but with the solace of that most human experience: community.

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