By Amy Renner Oct. 7, 2017
Friday, December 23
Why Him?
The story centers on a Midwestern father who takes his family to visit his daughter — who is attending Stanford — at Christmas and subsequently gets into a competition with his daughter’s boyfriend, a young Internet billionaire.
Nicholas Stoller, Dan Levine, Ben Stiller, Jonah Hill, Megan Mullally, Andrew Rannells, Keegan-Michael Key, Zack Pearlman
Comedy
A Monster Calls
Concerns a young boy who attempts to deal with his mother’s illness and the bullying of his classmates by escaping into a fantastical world of monsters and fairy tales that deal with courage, loss and faith.
Felicity Jones, Liam Neeson, Sigourney Weaver, Patrick Ness, Geraldine Chaplin, Juan Antonio Bayona, Belen Atienza, Toby Kebbell
Adventure Adaptation
Silence
The adaptation of a Japanese novel by Shusaku Endo is the martyrdom-themed tale of two 17th century Portuguese missionaries who return to Japan to minister to Christians, who've been outlawed.
Martin Scorsese, Liam Neeson, Andrew Garfield, Randall Emmett, Graham King, George Furla, Jay Cocks, Issei Ogata
Drama Historical Adaptation
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The Bad Kids
At a remote Mojave Desert high school extraordinary educators believe that empathy and life skills, more than academics, give at-risk students command of their own futures. This coming-of-age drama watches education combat the crippling effects of poverty in the lives of these so-called “bad kids.”
Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe
Documentary
I, Daniel Blake
Daniel Blake has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle. Now, for the first time ever, he needs help from the State. He crosses paths with a single mother Katie and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie’s only chance to escape a one-roomed homeless hostel in London has been to accept a flat in a city she doesn’t know, some 300 miles away. Daniel and Katie find themselves in no-man’s land, caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy as played out against the rhetoric of ‘striver and skiver’ in modern day Britain.
Ken Loach, Dave Johns, Hayley Squires
Drama
