Movies Released November 8, 2013

Friday, November 8

Thor: The Dark World PG-13

Sequel to the 2011 movie that was based on the Marvel comic character.
Kevin Feige, Tom Hiddleston, Idris Elba, Don Payne, Chris Hemsworth, Stellan Skarsgard, Ray Stevenson, Jaimie Alexander
Action Adventure Sequel Superhero 3D Comic Book

About Time R

A young man comes from a family of time-travelers. When he learns of his unique gift from his father, he uses his newfound abilities to change situations for the better.
Vanessa Kirby, Margot Robbie, Tim Bevan, Liza Chasin, Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Tom Hollander
Drama Comedy Sci-Fi

The Book Thief

Set during WWII, centers on nine year old Liesel who is taken to live with a foster family in a German working-class neighborhood.
Kirsten Block, Sandra Nedeleff, Brian Percival, Karen Rosenfelt, Michael Petroni, Emily Watson, Geoffrey Rush, Sophie Nelisse
Drama Teen
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Best Man Down PG-13

When their obnoxious and over-served best man, Lumpy (Labine) unexpectedly dies at their destination wedding in Phoenix, bride and groom Kristin (Weixler) and Scott (Long) are forced to cancel their honeymoon and fly home to the snowy Midwest to arrange for his funeral. But when they arrive they realize that there was a lot more to their friend than met the eye.
Ted Koland, Shelley Long, Michael Landes, Justin Long, Jess Weixler, Tyler Labine, Addison Timlin, Frances O'Connor
Drama Comedy

Great Expectations

A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.
Mike Newell, Ralph Fiennes, Jeremy Irvine, David Nicholls, Helena Bonham Carter, Jason Flemyng, Robbie Coltrane, Sally Hawkins
Drama Adaptation
85 mins

Ass Backwards

Two best friends embark on a cross country road trip back to their hometown to attempt to win a pageant that eluded them as children.
Jon Cryer, Alicia Silverstone, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jeff Pies, Chris Nelson, Heather Rae, Molly Conners, June Raphael
Adventure Comedy
79 mins

The Starving Games PG-13

A spoof of The Hunger Games with jokes about The Avengers, Sherlock Holmes and Harry Potter.
Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer, Peter Safran, Lauren Bowles, Maiara Walsh, Brant Daugherty, Cody Christian, Alexandria Deberry
Comedy Spoof Satire
123 mins

The Armstrong Lie R

In 2009 Alex Gibney was hired to make a film about Lance Armstrong's comeback to cycling. The project was shelved when the doping scandal erupted, and re-opened after Armstrong's confession. The Armstrong Lie picks up in 2013 and presents a riveting, insider's view of the unraveling of one of the most extraordinary stories in the history of sports. As Lance Armstrong himself says: "I didn't live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one."
Frank Marshall, Alex Gibney
Documentary

The Motel Life

After Jerry Lee Flannigan drunkenly kills a boy in a hit-and-run accident, he and his brother Frank ditch their Reno motel. The grief-stricken, working class, self-described “losers” do their best to keep each other’s spirits up, but all signs point toward more tragedy.
Dakota Fanning, Gabe Polsky, Alan Polsky, Gabriel Polsky, Micah Fitzerman-Blue, Noah Harpster, Emile Hirsch, Joshua Leonard
Drama Adaptation

Paris Countdown

Follows two best friends and co-owners of a Paris nightclub who, in order to pay their debts, are lured into a drug deal that goes bad.
Edgar Marie, Olivier Marchal, Jacques Gamblin
Thriller Crime
101 mins

How I Live Now R

Daisy (Saoirse Ronan), a teenager from New York, is sent to the English countryside for the summer to stay with cousins. She soon immerses herself in a dreamy pastoral idyll as she falls madly in love with Eddie (George McKay), until their perfect summer is blown apart by the sudden outbreak of a 21st century world war. Along with Eddie’s younger siblings, Isaac (Tom Holland) and Piper (Harley Bird), they are left in isolation and forced to fend for themselves. When they are violently separated Daisy must embark on a terrifying journey in order to be reunited with the boy she loves. Eddie is never far from Daisy’s mind but as her journey to find him becomes more desperate, the idea of what she may or may not find consumes her consciousness and haunts her soul.
Saoirse Ronan, George MacKay, Kevin Macdonald, Tom Holland, Harley Bird
Drama Thriller

Friday, November 8