September 2014 Movies

An immature man-child still lives with his parents in a chic Manhattan hotel but suddenly finds himself evicted, disinherited and hopelessly in love with his best friend’s girlfriend.

On June 12, 1970, Dock Ellis threw a no-hitter for the Pittsburgh Pirates - on LSD. In 137 years of organized professional baseball, it’s the only no-hitter of its kind. Dock was often embroiled in controversy on and off the field. While professional baseball hadn’t fully embraced racial equality, he was an outspoken leader who lived the expression ‘Black is Beautiful!’ His fearlessness enabled him to become one of the most intimidating pitchers of the 70’s and a trailblazer for a new wave of civil rights. After retiring, Dock became as outspoken about his career-spanning substance abuse issues as he had been about intolerance. He spent decades utilizing his brash approach as a counselor, helping other addicts in their recoveries. Through intimate stories and a trove of archival footage, NO NO: A DOCKUMENTARY brings Dock’s vibrant life to light, burnishing the legend and revealing the man behind it.

Frontera is set in the dangerous area between the United States and Mexico. After crossing the border illegally for work, Miguel (Pena), a hard-working father and devoted husband, finds himself wrongfully accused of murdering a former sheriff’s (Harris) wife. After learning of his imprisonment, Miguel’s pregnant wife (Longoria) tries to come to his aid and lands in the hands of corrupt coyotes who hold her for ransom. Dissatisfied with the police department’s investigation, the former sheriff tries to uncover the truth about his wife’s death and discovers disturbing evidence that will destroy one family’s future, or tear another’s apart.

"Stupid is as stupid does," says Forrest Gump (played by Tom Hanks in an Oscar-winning performance) as he discusses his relative level of intelligence with a stranger while waiting for a bus. Despite his sub-normal IQ, Gump leads a truly charmed life, with a ringside seat for many of the most memorable events of the second half of the 20th century. Entirely without trying, Forrest teaches Elvis Presley to dance, becomes a football star, meets John F. Kennedy, serves with honor in Vietnam, meets Lyndon Johnson, speaks at an anti-war rally at the Washington Monument, hangs out with the Yippies, defeats the Chinese national team in table tennis, meets Richard Nixon, discovers the break-in at the Watergate, opens a profitable shrimping business, becomes an original investor in Apple Computers, and decides to run back and forth across the country for several years. Meanwhile, as the remarkable parade of his life goes by, Forrest never forgets Jenny (Robin Wright Penn), the girl he loved as a boy, who makes her own journey through the turbulence of the 1960s and 1970s that is far more troubled than the path Forrest happens upon.

As Eve begins writing songs as a way to sort through some emotional problems, she meets James and Cassie, two musicians each at crossroads of their own.

A down-and-out New Yorker travels to Paris to liquidate a huge, valuable apartment he has inherited from his estranged father. In Paris, the man finds a refined old lady living in the apartment with her daughter. He discovers that the old lady and his father were lovers for more than 50 years.

With baseball being the last thing on these players’ minds, and dealing with one of the longest losing streaks in college history, the team of misfits comes to the realization that the school, led by the corrupt and unethical President of the University, has plans to disband the entire program. Hilarity ensues as they have one afternoon to execute a plan to fill the stadium, sign the top recruit on the planet, and help send their coach out with a bang.

Follows a former D.A turned stay-at-home mom and her two small children who are terrorized and kidnapped after she invites a handsome but mysterious stranger into their home to wait for help after his car runs off the road.

When a failed baseball player's ex-girlfriend moves back to the neighborhood with her seven-year-old daughter, he realizes he carries more regrets than how he handled his baseball career.

Blake Rayne portrays identical twin brothers separated at birth during the Great Depression with both sharing a similar passion for music, causing their lives to unknowingly intersect as they experience a connection often felt by twins.

An exploration of how a married couple in New York City deals emotional, life-altering experience. This is being told in two movies and from two perspectives: one from the husband (James McAvoy), a restaurant owner, and the wife (Jessica Chastain).

A soldier taken in to the home of the family of a fallen comrade becomes a threat to those around him when they discover dangerous secrets in his past.

The story centers on a world where a group of boys have had their minds wiped and get stuck inside a labyrinthine maze that’s impossible to solve. There’s only one safe spot–an acre in the center–that closes off every night. Every day when the boys wake up, the walls have changed and the maze is different. But the arrival of another boy, Thomas suddenly upsets the ‘game’ and disrupts the balance of the boys living here in dangerous ways.

The story about a father who dies and requests that his highly dysfunctional and non-religious family sit Shivah for seven days, in his honor. That experience forces them to confront their own family dynamic.

"A Walk Among the Tombstones" is based on the novel by Lawrence Block. Detective Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug dealer to find the people who kidnapped and murdered the dealer's wife.

After their newly adopted daughter goes missing in a small town, Steven and Shannon will stop at nothing to uncover the truth behind her disappearance and the dangerous secret behind the adoption agency they trusted. Risking their own lives, they will discover just what being a parent means and how far they will go to get their child back.

Follows a podcaster who sets out to interview an eccentric seafarer, only to find himself a plaything in the gruesome plot of a deranged killer.

After coincidentally cheating death on the same day, estranged twins Milo and Maggie reunite to confront how their lives went so wrong.

Christoph Waltz stars as an eccentric computer genius working on a mysterious project aimed at discovering the purpose of existence (or the lack thereof).

A dramatic comedy that takes place in a 1970's version of the future, where personalities and asteroids collide.

Tells the true story of Linda Ives' journey to learn the truth about the murder of her teenage son, which thrusts her into the largest cocaine smuggling and gun-running operation in U.S. history.

Follows an eccentric London psychiatrist who sets out on a global quest when his patients stop getting happier.

The Siamese Burn is an experimental machine designed to eliminate multiple personalities. And it works. SUKI is down to her last unwanted identity. But now she's losing time, and the machine is changing, doing something new. Something that's going to turn her world inside out. And that unwanted identity... what do you do when it turns out to be you?

Australian director Alan Hicks spent four years following the charming and sometimes poignant mentorship between jazz-legend Clark Terry and blind piano prodigy, Justin Kaulflin, during a pivotal moment in each of their lives. At eighty-nine years old, ‘CT’ has played alongside Duke Ellington and Count Basie; his pupils include Miles Davis and Quincy Jones, but his most unlikely friendship is with Justin, a 23-year-old with uncanny talent but debilitating nerves. As Justin prepares for a competition that could jumpstart his budding career, CT’s failing health threatens his own.

Set in a fantasy version of 1850s London, a 12-year-old, who's grown up in an underground world beneath the city that is full of monsters, must find his way in the world when he moves to the surface to live like a normal boy.

Robert McCall, a veteran covert operative seeking redemption for his darker exploits, quits a CIA-like agency and puts an advertisement in the newspaper that reads; Got a problem? Odds against you? Call The Equalizer.

Unsure of how to respond to her boyfriend's marriage proposal, a 28-year-old woman, who has been living in perpetual adolescence, pretends to go on a retreat, but actually ends up spending a week with her new friends, all of whom are in high school.

An aspiring singer-songwriter's life and marriage suffer when the song he writes for his wife propels him to stardom.

Follows a con artist, his wife and a stranger who try to flee a foreign country after one of them is caught up in the murder of a police officer.

A Christian girl goes off to college for her freshman year and begins to be influenced by her popular Biology professor who teaches that evolution is the answer to the origins of life. When her father suspects something happening, he begins to examine the situation and what he discovers completely catches him off guard. Now very concerned about his daughter drifting away from the faith, he tries to do something about it.

It’s the summer of 1984, Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers is on strike, prompting a London-based group of gay and lesbian activists to raise money to support the strikers’ families. Initially rebuffed by the Union, the group identifies a tiny mining village in Wales and sets off to make their donation in person. As the strike drags on, the two groups discover that standing together makes for the strongest union of all.

A couple in debt from several rounds of futile fertility treatments think their problems are solved when they stumble upon money found in their deceased tenant's apartment.

Follows a female soldier transferred home after a long tour in Afghanistan who struggles to learn how to feel to rebuild her relationship with her 5-year-old son.

Combining over twelve years of footage and narrated by their twin sons, TWO: The Story of Roman & Nyro, follows legendary songwriter Desmond Child and his lifelong partner's loving journey to create their new modern family.