Movies Released January 17, 2014

Friday, January 17

Devil's Due R

A found footage-inspired film. The plot is being kept secret but is described as female-driven, with horror elements.
Zach Gilford, Aimee Carrero, Madison Wolfe, Radio Silence, Lindsay Devlin, Colin Walker, Catherine Kresge, Griff Furst
Thriller Horror

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit PG-13

The story centers on former intelligence analyst and all-American good guy Jack Ryan.
Kevin Costner, Keira Knightley, Kenneth Branagh, David Koepp, Chris Pine, David Ellison, David Paymer, Lorenzo di Bonaventura
Action Adventure Sequel Prequel Reboot
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Ride Along PG-13

A tough cop tries to halt a budding romance between his sister and a fellow schoolteacher.
Ice Cube, Kevin Hart, John Leguizamo, Tika Sumpter, Tim Story, Chris Bender, Bruce McGill, Matt Alvarez
Action Adventure Comedy

The Nut Job PG

Surly and his rat friend Buddy, two street-wise rodents, have the solitude of their city park home upended.
Liam Neeson, Katherine Heigl, Will Arnett, Brendan Fraser, Stephen Lang, Jeff Dunham, Ria Westaway, Peter Lepeniotis
Comedy Family Animated 3D
108 mins

Jamesy Boy

The story of teenager James Burns (played by Spencer Lofranco) who goes from the suburban street gangs to a maximum-security prison cell surrounded by hardened criminals. In prison, he forms a friendship with a convicted murderer (Ving Rhames) who becomes his mentor and helps him turn his life around. In this unlikely setting, James ultimately emerges with hope and a brighter future.
Taissa Farmiga, Rosa Salazar, Mary-Louise Parker, Michael Trotter, Trevor White, James Woods, Spencer Lofranco, Ving Rhames
Action Adventure Crime
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G.B.F.

Story centers on the social warfare that erupts when two gay high school boys realize they must become GBFs to the most popular girls in school to improve their social status.
Natasha Lyonne, Megan Mullally, JoJo, Paul Iacono, Xosha Roquemore, Jonathan Silverman, Horatio Sanz, Darren Stein
Comedy

Big Bad Wolves

A series of brutal murders puts the lives of three men on a collision course: The father of the latest victim now out for revenge, a vigilante police detective operating outside the boundaries of law, and the main suspect in the killings - a religious studies teacher arrested and released due to a police blunder.
Aharon Keshales, Navot Papushado
Thriller Crime
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Reasonable Doubt R

Follows an Assistant D.A. who becomes obsessed with a man found not guilty of a hit and run.
Samuel L. Jackson, Dominic Cooper, Gloria Reuben, Peter Dowling, Peter Howitt, Erin Karpluk, Ryan Robbins, Dylan Taylor
Thriller Crime
93 mins

Back in the Day R

Sometimes in order to move forward, you have to go back. And in this raunchy comedy, Jim Owens does just that when he heads home for his high school reunion. In an attempt to relive the glory days with his boys and explore an old romance, he nearly destroys his hometown and friendships.
Morena Baccarin, Nick Swardson, Michael Rosenbaum, Harland Williams, Sarah Colonna
Comedy

Life of a King PG-13

The unlikely true story of Eugene Brown and his one-man mission to give inner-city kids of Washington D.C. something he never had – a future. He discovered a multitude of life lessons through the game of chess during his 18-year incarceration for bank robbery. After his release and reentry into the workforce, Eugene developed and founded the Big Chair Chess Club to get kids off the streets and working towards lives they never believed they were capable of due to circumstances. From his daring introductory chess lessons to group of unruly high school students in detention to the development of the Club and the teens’ first local chess competitions, this movie reveals his difficult, inspirational journey and how he changed the lives of a group of teens with no endgame.
Dennis Haysbert, Cuba Gooding Jr., LisaGay Hamilton, Jake Goldberger
110 mins

Summer In February

A love triangle set at an Edwardian artists’ colony on the Cornish coast of England in the early 20th century.
Emily Browning, Hattie Morahan, Dominic Cooper, Dan Stevens, Shaun Dingwall, Nicholas Farrell, Christopher Menaul, Jonathan Smith
Drama

The Freezer

A man is held in a walk-in freezer by criminals claiming he stole $3 million from them.
Dylan McDermott, Peter Facinelli, Mikael Salomon, Tom Doganoglu, Shane Weisfeld, Yuliya Snigir
Thriller
110 mins

Gloria R

Gloria follows a woman in her late 50s as she tries to balance family obligations with those of a new romance in this insightful and uplifting comedy that shows it's never too late to take charge.
Sebastian Lelio, Paulina García
Drama Comedy
120 mins

Like Father, Like Son

A dramedy that examines two families who discover that their six-year-old sons were switched at birth
Kore-eda Hirokazu
Drama Comedy

Friday, January 17