Movies Released August 9, 2019

Friday, August 9

The Art of Racing in the Rain PG

Enzo, a family dog with a near-human soul and a philosopher's mind, evaluates his life through the lessons learned by his human owner, the race-car driver Denny Swift.
Amanda Seyfried, Gary Cole, Neal H. Moritz, Mark Bomback, Kevin Costner, Tania Landau, Simon Curtis, Joanie Burstein
Drama Adaptation

Dora and the Lost City of Gold PG

A resourceful young girl named Dora loves embarking on quests with her talking purple backpack and monkey companion named Boots.
Madeleine Madden, Adriana Barraza, Tom Wheeler, Danielle Sanchez-Witzel, Eugenio Derbez, Micke Moreno, Eva Longoria, Benicio Del Toro
Adventure Family Kids Based on TV

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark PG-13

A group of outcast kids stand up to their fears to save their town when nightmares come to life.
Dean Norris, Natalie Ganzhorn, Andre Ovredal, Sean Daniel, Elizabeth Grave, Jason Brown, Guillermo del Toro, Dan Hageman
Drama Horror Adaptation Teen
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Brian Banks PG-13

After verbally committing to the USC football program in 2002, Brian Bank's life is upended when a classmate falsely accuses him of rape. While he maintains his innocence, Banks is sentenced to five years in prison and five years of probation, and is forced to register as a sex offender. With the help the California Innocence Project, Banks' conviction is overturned in 2012. He returns to the gridiron after a 10-year hiatus, playing arena football and going through endless NFL tryouts before finally making the Atlanta Falcons' 75-man roster in April. Although he only plays in four preseason games, Banks fulfills his lifelong dream and is now an activist and spokesperson for the California Innocence Project
Melanie Liburd, Sherri Shepherd, Amy Baer, Greg Kinnear, Xosha Roquemore, Tiffany Dupont, Tom Shadyac, Doug Atchison
Drama Biography Sports True Story

The Kitchen R

The Irish mafia story is set in Hell’s Kitchen, N.Y., in the 1970s. When the FBI comes in and does a sweep of the mob, several men are arrested. Their wives end up taking over and running the business much more viciously than the men ever did.
Annabella Sciorra, Bill Camp, Jason Cloth, Andrea Berloff, Melissa McCarthy, Brian d'Arcy James, Margo Martindale, Richard Brener
Crime Adaptation Gangster Comic Book

Ode to Joy

Martin Freeman has fallen in love and can’t get up. A man’s fervent attempts at subverting happiness once it begins to cause him bouts of narcolepsy are put to the ultimate test when he falls in love.
Jane Curtin, Jason Winer, Max Werner, Martin Freeman, Morena Baccarin, Melissa Rauch, Jake Lacy, Shannon Woodward
Comedy

The Peanut Butter Falcon

Follows Zak, a young man with Down syndrome, who runs away from the nursing home where he lives to pursue his dream of becoming a professional wrestler and attending the Saltwater Redneck wrestling school. Through circumstances beyond their control, a small-time outlaw also on the run (Shia LaBeouf) becomes Zak’s unlikely coach and ally.
Shia LaBeouf, Jon Bernthal, John Hawkes, Thomas Haden Church, Yelawolf, Tyler Nilson, Zachary Gottsagen, Dakota Johnson
Drama Adventure
123 mins

ECCO R

Michael is a ghost. Living in the shadows with his new family, years away from his former life as a nomadic, covert assassin. His peace and anonymity are shattered when his old employers return to bury their last surviving operative. With his truth exposed, Michael must protect his family and pursue his only chance at redemption: hunt those behind the organization where all his sins were born.
Lathrop Walker, Helena Grace Donald, Ben Medina, Tabitha Bastien, Mahria Zook, Michael Winters
Drama Thriller

After the Wedding PG-13

Remake of the 2006 Oscar-nominated film about a Western social worker in a Mumbai slum who receives a mysterious multi-million-dollar donation from a Western businessman.
Bart Freundlich, Joel B. Michaels, Silvio Muraglia, Michelle Williams, Julianne Moore
Drama Remake
89 mins

One Child Nation

China’s One Child Policy, the extreme population control measure that made it illegal for couples to have more than one child, may have ended in 2015, but the process of dealing with the trauma of its brutal enforcement is only just beginning. From documentarian Nanfu Wang (Hooligan Sparrow, I Am Another You) and Jialing Zhang, the sweeping One Child Nation explores the ripple effect of this devastating social experiment, uncovering one shocking human rights violation after another - from abandoned newborns, to forced sterilizations and abortions, and government abductions. Wang digs fearlessly into her own personal life, weaving her experience as a new mother and the firsthand accounts of her family members into archival propaganda material and testimony from victims and perpetrators alike, yielding a revelatory and essential record of this chilling, unprecedented moment in human civilization.
Jialing Zhang, Nanfu Wang
Documentary

Friday, August 9