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.
Kodi Smit-McPhee, Albert Hughes, Dan Widenhaupt, Leonor Varela, Natassia Malthe, Priya Rajaratnam
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.
John Malkovich, Peter Berg, Mark Wahlberg, Lauren Cohan, Stephen Levinson, Lea Carpenter, Ronda Rousey, Iko Uwais
Drama Action

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.
Will Smith, John Corbett, Andrew Bachelor, Susan Johnson, Lana Condor, Noah Centineo, James Lassiter, Sofia Alvarez
Drama Romance Adaptation Teen
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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.
Chris Bouchard, Lexy Kolker, Blake Harris, Shirley MacLaine, Poppy Drayton, William Moseley, Loreto Peralta, Gina Gershon
Drama Fairy Tale

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.
John C. McGinley, Garret Dillahunt, Brogan Hall, Robert Deaton, George J. Flanigen IV, Richard Dresser, Jlynn Johnson, Graham Schneider
Comedy

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.
Isabelle Fuhrman, AnnaSophia Robb, Marty Bowen, Chris Sparling, Taylor Russell, Uma Thurman, Rodrigo Cortés, Stephenie Meyer
Suspense Adaptation Supernatural

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.
S. Craig Zahler, Nelson Franklin, Michael Paré, Udo Kier, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Thomas Lennon, Charlyne Yi, Sonny Laguna
Fantasy Horror Reboot

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.
Tamara Jenkins, Judd Apatow, Ron Yerxa, Ethan Hawke, Jesse Peretz, Barry Mendel, Albert Berger, Jeffrey Soros
Drama Romance Adaptation
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, David L. Cunningham, Matt Dillon, Christian Parkes, Jim Caviezel, Olivia Ritchie, Juliet Mills, Nick Boraine
Romance Family

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
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

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.
Rosanna Arquette, Holly Wiersma, Emma Roberts, Cary Elwes, James Cox, Stephen Cox, Captain Mauzner, Ansel Elgort
Drama Crime
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”.
Jack Anderson, Steven Oritt, Amanda Anderson, Joe the Carver, Russell Means, Edith Burke, John Bragg, John Prine
Documentary

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, Raul Castillo, Jeremiah Zagar, Evan Rosado, Josiah Gabriel, Isaiah Kristian
Drama LGBTQIA+

Blaze

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

Friday, August 17