December 2012 Movies




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Tarantino XX: Reservoir Dogs’ 20th Anniversary Event

Assembles four perfect strangers to pull off the perfect crime. But when their botched robbery reveals a police informant among them, their simple robbery explodes into a bloody ambush.
Quentin Tarantino, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Steve Buscemi, Chris Penn
Thriller Crime Re-Release
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Tarantino XX: Pulp Fiction Event R

Set in the basking sun of L.A., the film follows a burger-loving hit man (John Travolta), his philosophical partner (Samuel L. Jackson), a drug-addled gangster's moll (Uma Thurman) and a washed-up boxer (Bruce Willis), as their four tales converge in a story of violence and redemption.
Ving Rhames, John Travolta, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Amanda Plummer, Rosanna Arquette, Quentin Tarantino
Thriller Crime Re-Release

Playing for Keeps PG-13

A father with a dubious past brought in to coach his son’s Little League baseball (or soccer) team.
Gerard Butler, Danny Dimbort, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Uma Thurman, Judy Greer, Jonathan Mostow, Alan Siegel, Jessica Biel
Comedy Romance Sports

End of Watch R

A gritty drama that follows the friendship between longtime LAPD partners.
Jake Gyllenhaal, David Ayer, Anna Kendrick, Frank Grillo, Natalie Martinez, Michael Peña, America Ferrera, John Lesher
Drama Crime Gangster

Honor Flight PG

Volunteers race against the clock to fly thousands of WWII veterans to Washington, DC to see the memorial constructed for them in 2005, nearly 60 years after the War. The trips are called "Honor Flights" and for the veterans, who are in their late 80s and early 90s, it's often the first time they've been thanked and the last trip of their lives.

The 24-hour journey is full of surprises that deep ly move all who are involved. It’s uncommon for World War II veterans to talk about the War, but the Honor Flight experience brings their stories out. Many veterans say, with the exception of their wedding day and the birth of their children, the trip is the best day of their life.
Dan Hayes
War Documentary

Bad Kids Go to Hell R

Six private school high school kids find themselves stuck in detention on a frightfully dark and stormy Saturday afternoon. During their 8 hour incarceration, each of the six kids falls victim to a horrible "accident" until only one of them remains. And as each of these spoiled rich kids bites the dust, the story takes on a series of humorous and frantic twists and turns. Is one of the kids secretly evening the school's social playing field? Or have the ghosts of prestigious Crestview Academy finally come to punish the school's worst (and seemingly untouchable) brats? One thing is for sure...Daddy's money can't save them now.
Matthew Spradlin, Amanda Alch, Marc Donato, Roger Edwards, Ali Faulkner, Jeffrey Schmidt, Chanel Ryan, Barry Wernick
Comedy Thriller Mystery

Lay the Favorite R

A woman falls into the world of professional gambling in Vegas, where she starts working as a cocktail waitress in hopes of making fast cash. Her gambling leads her to New York and the Caribbean, with gamblers soon becoming her second family. But when she falls in love, she had to re-evaluate her life.
Bruce Willis, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Frank Grillo, Vince Vaughn, Rebecca Hall, Stephen Frears, D.V. DeVincentis, Laura Prepon
Drama Comedy

Cheerful Weather for the Wedding PG

England, 1932. Today is Dolly Thatcham's wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and grievances that bubble to the surface at such gatherings. Trouble soon appears in the shape of Joseph, Dolly's lover from the previous summer, who throws her feelings into turmoil. Dolly's mother will not allow her carefully laid plans for her daughter's future to be threatened, and as the clock ticks the bride can't decide whether to run away with Joseph or start a new life in Argentina with her husband-to-be.
Felicity Jones, Donald Rice, James Norton, Julian Wadham, Luke Treadaway, Elizabeth McGovern, Mackenzie Crook, Zoe Tapper
Drama Comedy Adaptation

Dino Time PG

There’s nothing Ernie loves more than an excellent adventure, whether he’s zooming around town on his rocket-powered skateboard or stealing an early peek at the coolest new fossil exhibit at the Dinosaur Museum. It’s not always easy under the strict rule of his mom Sue (Jane Lynch) - especially with his sister Julia following him around and trying to get him into trouble every chance she gets - bu t he still manages to stir up some fun. One day, however, Ernie’s daredevil nature takes him on a journey with potentially irreversible consequences. After sneaking over to his best friend Max’s house, Ernie discovers Max’s dad’s latest invention: a sleek, egg-shaped time machine. Suddenly, Julia bursts in to bust the two boys, and in the ensuing chaos, the time machine whirs to life and closes its doors on the three arguing kids.

When the hydraulic doors hiss open, the kids find themselves in a lush jungle untouched by mankind, with a living, breathing T-Rex named Tyra (Melanie Griffith) standing over them. Tyra nuzzles them softly, and Ernie realizes that they’re not going to end up dinosaur food – they’re family! The egg-shaped time machine has landed in Tyra’s nest, and the she thinks the human children are hers, new siblings to her hyperactive dinosaur son Dodger (Rob Schneider).

Ernie’s ready to seize the opportunity to have his most incredible escapade yet – but there’s still the little problem of how to eventually get home, what with the time machine having lost a vital component in its crash landing. Throw in some creepy dinosaur rivals of Tyra’s (William Baldwin and Stephen Baldwin) who plan to take the time machine 'egg' to lure her into their lair, and the road back to the present is paved with obstacles. It’s going to take a lot of teamwork, and maybe even some surprising help from Sue, to reunite Ernie, Julia and Max with their human families and get them out of 'Dino Time.'
Rob Schneider, Stephen Baldwin, William Baldwin, John Kafka, Yoon-suk Choi, James Greco, Jane Lynch, Tara Strong
Family Animation 3D

Delhi Safari PG

Delhi Safari is the story of a journey undertaken by a cub leopard Yuvi, his mother Begam (Vanessa Williams), a monkey Barjrangi, Bagga (Brad Garrett) the lovable bear and Alex the parrot when the forest they live in is on the verge of destruction. Along the way they meet a motley crew of jungle friends from the Bee Commander (Cary Elwes), the Pigeon (Christopher Lloyd), to the singing Flamingos (Jane Lynch and Jason Alexander). Their mission is simple, once in Delhi they will ask the government some very simple questions - why has man become the most dangerous animal? Doesn't man understand that if the forests and the animals don't exist, man will cease to exist?
Brad Garrett, Christopher Lloyd, Cary Elwes, Nikhil Advani, Vanessa Williams, Jason Alexander, Jane Lynch
Comedy Animation 3D

The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernandez

Retired radio DJ, Rex Page (Ernest Borgnine), always dreamed of being a Western movie cowboy — After suffering a back injury, Rex finds himself recovering at Rancho Park nursing home, a facility held in the villainous grip of local businessman Mr. Walker (Barry Corbin) and his evil henchman, Dr. Dominguez (Tony Plana).

At first, Rex is helpless in this lawless world, but when the Latino staff realizes that Rex once met their icon, Vicente Fernandez, Rex becomes a local celebrity. And like the cowboys from his dreams, Rex discovers the love and respect of his family and the staff when he faces down the tyrannical owners of Rancho Park this homage to the Spaghetti Westerns of yore.
Elia Petridis, Ernest Borgnine
Comedy Family

Heleno R

Gifted with incredible athletic talent, Brazilian-born Heleno de Freitas conquered the soccer world in the 1940s. As his fame and fortune grew to new heights, his passion for a decadent life of women and nightclubs would threaten his career.
Rodrigo Santoro, Jose Henrique Fonseca, Aline Moraes, Angie Cepeda
Drama Biography

Deadfall R

Two desperate sibling fugitives on the run collide with the holiday homecoming of a troubled ex-boxer.
Charlie Hunnam, Olivia Wilde, Eric Bana, Stefan Ruzowitzky, Shelly Clippard, Todd Wagner, Gary Levinsohn, Zach Dean
Thriller Crime

The Fitzgerald Family Christmas PG-13

With The Fitzgerald Family Christmas, Ed Burns returns to the working-class, Irish-American roots of The Brothers McMullen. Reuniting with McMullen co-stars Connie Britton, and Mike McGlone, along with Noah Emmerich and Kerry Bishe, Burns weaves an ensemble story of adult siblings dealing with the desire of their estranged father (Ed Lauter) to return home for Christmas for the first time since he walked out on his family 20 years ago. Family rifts emerge, and like with any family, Christmas brings a mixed bag of complicated emotions and dynamics. Alliances form, old wounds are reopened or glossed over, and the possibility for a new hope and forgiveness emerges.
Edward Burns, Heather Burns, Dara Coleman, Kerry Bishé, Connie Britton
Drama Comedy Holiday

In Our Nature

A portrait of two couples at a crossroads. What was supposed to be a romantic getaway for two young lovers, turns into an uncomfortable confrontation when the young man's estranged father shows up ... with his own girlfriend. As their collisions mount, the weekend transforms into a major turning point for each of them.
Jena Malone, Gabrielle Union, Brian Savelson, Zach Gilford, John Slattery
Drama

Flying Lessons R

With her life at a crossroads, 25 year old Sophie Conway returns home to the small town she always wanted to forget. Once home, she is faced with the friends and lovers she left behind, a tangled relationship with her Mother, and Harry Pleasant, an Alzheimer's Disease patient who, in an opposing way, shares Sophie's struggle to remember.
Kate Mara, Natalie Dormer, Maggie Grace, Alan Loayza, Tom Kuehl, Cary Elwes, Gideon Raff, Derek Magyar
Drama

Hyde Park on Hudson R

Set in 1939 and follows the weekend visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to President Roosevelt's upstate New York home, called Hyde Park on Hudson. Over the course of the visit, details of FDR's private life begin to unfold, including his affair with his distant cousin Daisy.
Bill Murray, Kevin Loader, Laura Linney, Olivia Colman, Roger Michell, David Aukin, Richard Nelson, Olivia Williams
Drama Historical

Waiting for Lightning

This documentary follows skateboarding legend and action sports pioneer Danny Way on his journey to jump China’s Great Wall, and reveals the passion, grit, determination and psyche behind one of the world’s athletes.
Mike Blabc, Jacob Rosenberg, Max Leitman, Darryl Franklin, Hana Ripperger-Suhler, Bret Anthony Johnston, Crystal Ackley, Ken Block
Sports Documentary

Only the Young NR

Only the Young is the story of the children that inhabit a small desert town in Southern California – a town dominated by foreclosed homes and underpasses, unfilled swimming pools and skate parks. The three teenagers of focus must find things to do in a place that offers nothing – but in observing their day-to-day lives, we see them discover friendship, first love, heartbreak, and what it means to be young.
Elizabeth Mims
Documentary
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey PG-13

The story centers on Hobbit Bilbo Baggins and the scary adventure he makes with thirteen dwarves.
Luke Evans, Elijah Wood, Benedict Cumberbatch, Peter Jackson, Andy Serkis, Orlando Bloom, Guillermo del Toro, Evangeline Lilly
Drama Adventure Fantasy Prequel 3D Shot-In-3D

Cheerful Weather for the Wedding PG

England, 1932. Today is Dolly Thatcham's wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and grievances that bubble to the surface at such gatherings. Trouble soon appears in the shape of Joseph, Dolly's lover from the previous summer, who throws her feelings into turmoil. Dolly's mother will not allow her carefully laid plans for her daughter's future to be threatened, and as the clock ticks the bride can't decide whether to run away with Joseph or start a new life in Argentina with her husband-to-be.
Felicity Jones, Donald Rice, James Norton, Julian Wadham, Luke Treadaway, Elizabeth McGovern, Mackenzie Crook, Zoe Tapper
Drama Comedy Adaptation
Los Angeles
2 / 5
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Let Fury Have The Hour

Chronicles how a generation of artists, thinkers, and activists channeled their creativity into an organized response and resistance to the reactionary politics that increasingly defined American culture in the 1980s.
Antonino D'Ambrosio
Documentary

Any Day Now R

When a teenager with Down syndrome is abandoned by his mother, a gay couple (Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt) takes him in and becomes the loving family he's never had. But when their unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men are forced to fight a biased legal system to save the life of the child they have come to love as their own.
Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Travis Fine, Frances Fisher, Isaac Leyva, Gregg Henry
Drama LGBTQIA+

Save the Date R

Sarah begins to confront her shortcomings after she rejects her boyfriend's hasty proposal and soon finds herself in a rebound romance. Meanwhile, her sister Beth is immersed in the details of her wedding.
Lizzy Caplan, Alison Brie, Martin Starr, Mike Mohan, Neal H. Moritz, Jeffrey Brown, Egan Reich, Geoffrey Arend
Comedy Romance
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The Guilt Trip PG-13

An inventor and his mom hit the road together so he can sell his latest invention.
Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Dan Fogelman, Barbra Streisand, Colin Hanks, Casey Wilson, Kathy Najimy, David Ellison
Comedy

Monsters, Inc. 3D G

A comedy set in a surreal realm, where chaos ensues after a hapless monster lets a human child into the secret world by mistake.
Pete Docter, Jill Culton, David Silverman, Jeff Pidgeon, John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Mary Gibbs, Steve Buscemi
Comedy Family Kids Animation

Zero Dark Thirty R

A U.S. military black ops mission causes ramifications which are felt around the world.
Jessica Chastain, Mark Strong, Chris Pratt, Nash Edgerton, Megan Ellison, Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Ehle, Mike Colter
Drama War Thriller
New York / Los Angeles
3 / 5
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Amour (Love) PG-13

In the film, Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) are in their 80's. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter (Isabelle Huppert), who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has an attack. The couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Michael Haneke, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Drama
New York / Los Angeles
3 / 5
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Jack Reacher PG-13

A homicide investigator seeks the truth behind what seems an open-and-shut murder case after a trained military sniper is arrested for shooting five random victims.
Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Dana Goldberg, Paula Wagner, Christopher McQuarrie, David Oyelowo, David Ellison, Don Granger
Drama Suspense Adaptation Mystery

The Impossible PG-13

Based on the true story of events that occurred following the 2004 tsunami in Thailand.
Naomi Watts, Tom Hollander, Sergio G. Sanchez, Ewan McGregor, Juan Antonio Bayona, Geraldine Chaplin, Marta Etura
Drama Action True Story

THIS IS 40 R

A spin-off of Knocked Up that focuses on Pete and Debbie, who where played by Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann. Additional plot details are unavailable.
Melissa McCarthy, Megan Fox, Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, Ryan Lee, Annie Mumolo, Judd Apatow, Barry Mendel
Comedy

On the Road R

Recounts Jack Kerouac's defining hitchhiking journey across the U.S. with Neal Cassady.
Amy Adams, Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst, Sam Riley, Walter Salles, Nathanaël Karmitz, Rebecca Yeldham, Francis Ford Coppola
Drama Adaptation

Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away PG

Inspired by the unique creative universe of Cirque du Soleil. The film is based on the following premise: "There are worlds beyond dreams, illusion and imagination, where human beings are capable of anything. Where love rules, and everything your heart yearns for is beautifully, incredibly real."
James Cameron, Aron Warner, Andrew Adamson, Erica Linz, Matt Gillanders, Jason Berrent, Lutz Halbhubner
Fantasy 3D Shot-In-3D Based on Play

Not Fade Away R

Set on the East Coast during the 1960s, a coming of age story that follows the lives of Douglas, Wells and Ronny, members of a young rock n’ roll band trying to make it.
Christopher McDonald, John Magaro, Bella Heathcote, Brad Garrett, Mark Johnson, James Gandolfini, David Chase, Will Brill
Drama Music

Barbara PG-13

East Germany, 1980. Barbara is a talented young doctor who has applied for an exit visa from the GDR and, as punishment, has been transferred from her prestigious post in Berlin to a small pediatric hospital in the country. Even though she is constantly aware of the very real shadowy presence of, and overwhelming numbers of, Stasi officers chronicling her every move, every waking hour, she arrives at her new post having already planned a series of dangerous assignations with her lover, with whom she plans to escape to the West, to Poland.
Christian Petzold, Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock

Les Misérables PG-13

A film adaptation of the popular stage play, which chronicles the lives of five characters through nearly two decades in France. Ex-con Jean Valjean tries to outrun his relentless pursuer Javert.
Amanda Seyfried, Anne Hathaway, Russell Crowe, Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen, Hugh Jackman, Tim Bevan, Tom Hooper
Adaptation Musical Based on Play

Django Unchained

Django is a freed slave, who, under the tutelage of a German bounty hunter, becomes a bad-ass bounty hunter himself. After taking down some bad guys for profit, they track down Django's slave wife and liberate her from an evil plantation owner.
Jamie Foxx, Samuel L. Jackson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Christoph Waltz, James Russo, Don Johnson, Quentin Tarantino, Kerry Washington
Drama Western

Parental Guidance PG

Billy Crystal will play a grandfather forced to take care of his three grandchildren by the 21st century rules of his daughter, their mother, who has gone on a weeklong work vacation. In the process, he is confronted with what seems to him an absurd world of negotiating with kids, Little League games where everyone gets a hit, tailored meals and "feelings." Ultimately, he reverts to an old-school-justice style of discipline.
Marisa Tomei, Bette Midler, Andy Fickman, Peter Chernin, Lowell Ganz, Joe Syracuse, Tom Everett Scott, Dylan Clark
Drama Comedy Family

West of Memphis

Starting with a searing examination of the police investigation into the 1993 murders of three, eight year old boys Christopher Byers, Steven Branch and Michael Moore in the small town of West Memphis, Arkansas, the film reveals the story from the inside. West of Memphis uncovers new evidence surrounding the arrest and conviction of the other three victims of this shocking crime – Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley; all three of whom were teenagers at the time of their arrests and all three of whom were imprisoned for crimes they did not commit.
Peter Jackson, Amy Berg, Damien Echols, Fran Walsh, Ken Kamins
Documentary

TABU

A two-part tale centered on Aurora, shown first as an impulsive, cantankerous elderly woman in present-day Lisbon. When Aurora is hospitalized, she sends her neighbor, Pilar, to pass word of her grave condition to Gian Luca, a man of which no one has ever heard her speak. Pilar’s quest to fulfill her friend’s wish transports us to Africa fifty years earlier, before the start of the Portuguese Colonial War. We see Aurora again, this time as the gorgeous, smoldering wife of a wealthy young farmer, involved in a forbidden love affair with Gian Luca, her husband’s best friend.
Teresa Madruga, Laura Soveral, Miguel Gomes, Ana Moreira
Drama

Quartet PG-13

The story of three elderly, former opera-singers living in a retirement home for musicians, who suddenly find themselves invited to a "reunion event."
Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Dustin Hoffman, Stewart Mackinnon, Tom Courtenay, Ronald Harwood, Billy Connolly
Drama Comedy Music

Promised Land R

A sales executive arrives in a small town only to have his whole life called into question.
Matt Damon, Frances McDormand, John Krasinski, Gus Van Sant, Scoot McNairy, Chris Moore, Dave Eggers, Rosemarie DeWitt
Drama
New York / Los Angeles
3 / 5
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