Movies Released August 17, 2018

Friday, August 17

Alpha PG-13

Set 20,000 years ago in the Ice Age, a hunting expedition goes awry and a young survivor braves the inhospitable and dangerous conditions to find his way back.
Albert Hughes, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Dan Widenhaupt, Leonor Varela, Priya Rajaratnam, Natassia Malthe
Drama Action Thriller

Mile 22 R

A CIA field officer and an Indonesian police officer are forced to work together as they confront violent and extreme political corruption.
Mark Wahlberg, Peter Berg, Ronda Rousey, John Malkovich, Poorna Jagannathan, Stephen Levinson, Lea Carpenter, Iko Uwais
Drama Action

Benched

Legendary baseball coach, Don (John C. McGinley), gets inexperienced Michael (Garret Dillahunt) as his new assistant coach. As their lives dramatically change, the coaches must come together to help their team win.
Robert Deaton, George J. Flanigen IV, Richard Dresser, John C. McGinley, Garret Dillahunt, Jlynn Johnson, Graham Schneider, Keith Jamal Evans
Comedy
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Pandas G

At Chengdu Panda Base in China, scientists are dedicated to protecting the species by breeding adult Giant Pandas in order to introduce cubs into the wild. This film follows one such researcher, whose passion leads her to initiate a new technique inspired by a black bear program in rural New Hampshire. What starts as a cross-culture collaboration becomes a life-changing journey for an American biologist who crosses an ocean to join her; a scientist from Inner Mongolia; and a very curious female cub named Qian Qian, born in captivity.
Kristen Bell, David Douglas, Drew Fellman, Donald Kushner, Steve Ransohoff
Documentary Nature 3D IMAX

To All The Boys I've Loved Before

High schooler Lara Jean Song writes love letters to the five boys she's ever loved and keeps them locked away in a hatbox until the day her letters are mailed, upending her real-life love life.
James Lassiter, Will Smith, Noah Centineo, John Corbett, Andrew Bachelor, Susan Johnson, Sofia Alvarez, Lana Condor
Drama Romance Adaptation Teen
87 mins

The Little Mermaid PG

A take on the 1837 classic centers on a young girl (Peralta) and her older brother (Moseley), a reporter, who travels to a small town in Mississippi to find a woman believed to be the real Little Mermaid.
Blake Harris, Chris Bouchard, William Moseley, Loreto Peralta, Shirley MacLaine, Poppy Drayton, Gina Gershon, Jared Sandler
Drama Fairy Tale
110 mins

Running For Grace

An orphan boy of mixed race finds family with the newly arrived white village doctor in Hawaii. The boy can run like the wind, and begins bringing Doc's medicine to coffee pickers throughout the mountainous region. On an errand, the medicine runner meets the daughter of the plantation owner and a forbidden, young love blossoms like the white "Kona Snow" of the surrounding coffee trees.
Ryan Potter, Jim Caviezel, David L. Cunningham, Christian Parkes, Matt Dillon, Olivia Ritchie, Juliet Mills, Nick Boraine
Romance Family

Billionaire Boys Club

During the 1980s in Los Angeles, a group of wealth graduates of the Harvard School for boys establish an investment club. When the funds run out, the members resort to kidnapping and murder.
Kevin Spacey, Emma Roberts, Captain Mauzner, Cary Elwes, Jeremy Irvine, James Cox, Holly Wiersma, Stephen Cox
Drama Crime

Juliet, Naked

Annie, the long-suffering girlfriend of Duncan, has an unlikely transatlantic romance with once revered singer-songwriter Tucker Crowe, who also happens to be the subject of Duncan's musical obsession.
Phil Alden Robinson, Ethan Hawke, Jesse Peretz, Rose Byrne, Judd Apatow, Barry Mendel, Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa
Drama Romance Adaptation

We the Animals

Three brothers tear their way through childhood, pushing against their parents’ volatile love. While the older brothers take cues from their unpredictable father, Jonah, the youngest, increasingly embraces an imagined world all his own.
Sheila Vand, Jeremiah Zagar, Evan Rosado, Josiah Gabriel, Isaiah Kristian, Raul Castillo
Drama LGBTQIA+

Down a Dark Hall

Set against the mysterious Blackwood boarding school, new student Kit Gordy must unravel Blackwood's haunted and tragic history before it's too late.
Rodrigo Cortés, Marty Bowen, AnnaSophia Robb, Taylor Russell, Stephenie Meyer, Meghan Hibbett, Wick Godfrey, Michael Goldbach
Suspense Adaptation Supernatural
93 mins

Minding the Gap

Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations threaten their decade-long friendship.
Bing Liu
Documentary

Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich

A recently divorced young man discovers a mint condition Blade doll in his deceased brother's closet and plans to sell the toy at a convention in Oregon celebrating the 30th anniversary of the infamous Toulon Murders. All hell breaks loose at the Postville Lodge during the auction when a strange force animates all of the various puppets throughout the convention as they go on a bloody killing spree.
Jack Heller, Thomas Lennon, Michael Paré, Udo Kier, Sonny Laguna, Tommy Wiklund, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Mark Vahradian
Fantasy Horror Reboot

Blaze

A music biopic based on singer and songwriter Blaze Foley.
Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Steve Zahn, Wyatt Russell, Ben Dickey, Sam Rockwell, Kris Kristofferson, Alia Shawkat
Biography Music
84 mins

American Native

Thirty miles from Manhattan a group of mysterious mountain people fight for recognition as a legitimate Native American tribe from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. What begins as their journey travels the country as Native American’s fight for their rights at Standing Rock, Apache Junction and throughout the United States. Examining through expert interviews and unbridled access to the ­community, the film provides an in ­depth look at the complex past, volatile present and endangered future of the Ramapough Mountain Indians and what it truly means to be a “Native American”.
Steven Oritt, Amanda Anderson, Jack Anderson, Joe the Carver, Russell Means, Edith Burke, John Bragg, John Prine
Documentary

Friday, August 17