my week with marilyn

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Director:
Simon Curtis

Genre:
Drama

MPAA Rating:
R for some language.

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“As soon as I finished the script, I knew that I wanted to do it, and then I spent six months trying to talk myself out of it. But I always knew that I never really had a choice. I’ve started to believe that you get the piece of material that you were ready for.”

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Friday and Saturday
5:50 & 8:00

Sunday thru Thursday
7:00

Admission:
$5.00

Runtime:
1 hour 39 minutes

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My Week With Marilyn

Best Actress Golden Globe-Michelle Williams

Cast:
Michelle Williams, Kenneth Branagh, Eddie Redmayne, Emma Watson, Dominic Cooper, Judi Dench, Julia Ormond, Dougray Scott, Derek Jacobi, Zoe Wanamaker, Toby Jones

Synopsis:
"My Week with Marilyn" chronicles a week in the life of Marilyn Monroe in which she escapes the shackles of her Hollywood career and embraces British life with Colin Clark. Directed by Simon Curtis and produced by David Parfitt, the film is based on Colin Clark's diaries and has been adapted for the screen by Adrian Hodges.

In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark, just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl, the film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe, who was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller.

Nearly 40 years on, his diary account "The Prince, the Showgirl and Me" was published, but one week was missing and this was published some years later as "My Week with Marilyn" - this is the story of that week. When Arthur Miller leaves England, the coast is clear for Colin to introduce Marilyn to some of the pleasures of British life; an idyllic week in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from her retinue of Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of work.

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Adventures Of Tintin

Cast:
Jamie Bell, Daniel Craig, Andy Serkis, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Gad Elmaleh, Toby Jones, Cary Elwes, Mackenzie Crook, Tony Curran, Sebastian Roche, Phillip Rhys, Daniel Mays

Director:
Steven Spielberg

Genre:
Animated Action, Adventure, Family

MPAA Rating:
PG for adventure action violence, some drunkenness and brief smoking.

Runtime:
1 hour 47 minutes

Synopsis:
Paramount Pictures and Columbia Pictures Present "The Adventures of Tintin" directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Steven Moffat and Edgar Wright & Joe Cornish. Starring Jamie Bell ("Billy Elliot," "Defiance") as Tintin, the intrepid young reporter whose relentless pursuit of a good story thrusts him into a world of high adventure, and Daniel Craig ("Quantum of Solace," "Defiance") as the nefarious Red Rackham.

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The Artist

Cast:
Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell, Penelope Ann Miller, Missi Pyle, Malcolm McDowell, Joel Murray

Director:
Michel Hazanavicius

Genre:
Romance, Drama, Comedy, Musical

MPAA Rating:
PG-13 for a disturbing image and a crude gesture.

Runtime:
1 hour 40 minutes

Synopsis:
Hollywood 1927. George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is a silent movie superstar. The advent of the talkies will sound the death knell for his career and see him fall into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller (Berenice Bejo), it seems the sky's the limit - major movie stardom awaits. THE ARTIST tells the story of their interlinked destinies.

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Carnage

Cast:
Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly

Director:
Roman Polanski

Genre:
Comedy, Drama

MPAA Rating:
R for language.

Runtime:
1 hour 20 minutes

Synopsis:
Set in contemporary Brooklyn, New York, "Carnage" centers on two pairs of parents, one of whose child has hurt the other at a public park, who meet to discuss the matter in a civilized manner. However, as the evening goes on, the parents become increasingly childish, resulting in the evening devolving into chaos.

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The Descendants

Cast:
George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Mary Birdsong, Judy Greer, Beau Bridges, Matthew Lillard, Robert Forster, Nick Krause, Amara Miller

Director:
Alexander Payne

Genre:
Comedy, Drama, Family

MPAA Rating:
R for language including some sexual references.

Runtime:
1 hour 55 minutes

Synopsis:
From Alexander Payne, the creator of the Oscar-winning "Sideways", set in Hawaii, "The Descendants" is a sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic journey for Matt King (George Clooney) an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.

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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Cast:
Rooney Mara, Daniel Craig, Robin Wright Penn, Stellan Skarsgard, Christopher Plummer, Embeth Davidtz, Goran Visnjic, Joel Kinnaman, Joely Richardson, Julian Sands, Geraldine James

Director:
David Fincher

Genre:
Drama, Thriller

MPAA Rating:
R for brutal violent content including rape and torture, strong sexuality, graphic nudity, and language.

Runtime:
2 hours 38 minutes

Synopsis:
Based on Stieg Larsson's posthumously published crime thriller trilogy, "The Millennium Series." Describes the mystery surrounding the long-unsolved disappearance of an heiress. A journalist recently dinged by a libel case and a young female hacker try to resolve it, stirring up bundles of personal and industrial corruption along the way.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first film in Columbia Pictures' three-picture adaptation of Stieg Larsson's literary blockbuster The Millennium Trilogy. The film is based on the first novel in the trilogy, which altogether have sold 50 million copies in 46 countries and become a worldwide phenomenon. The screenplay is by Steven Zaillian.

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The Iron Lady

Cast:
Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Richard E. Grant, Harry Lloyd, Anthony Head, Olivia Colman, Roger Allam

Director:
Phyllida Lloyd

Genre:
Biography, Drama

MPAA Rating:
PG-13 for some violent images and brief nudity.

Runtime:
1 hour 45 minutes

Synopsis:
"The Iron Lady" tells the compelling story of Margaret Thatcher, a woman who smashed through the barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world. The story concerns power and the price that is paid for power, and is a surprising and intimate portrait of an extraordinary and complex woman.

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J. Edgar

Cast:
Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Watts, Armie Hammer, Ed Westwick, Damon Herriman, Judi Dench, Josh Lucas, Ken Howard, Lea Coco, Stephen Root, Jeffrey Donovan, Miles Fisher, Dermot Mulroney

Director:
Clint Eastwood

Genre:
Drama, Biography

MPAA Rating:
R for brief strong language.

Runtime:
2 hours 17 minutes

Synopsis:
During his lifetime, J. Edgar Hoover would rise to be the most powerful man in America. As head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for nearly 50 years, he would stop at nothing to protect his country. Through eight presidents and three wars, Hoover waged battle against threats both real and perceived, often bending the rules to keep his countrymen safe. His methods were at once ruthless and heroic, with the admiration of the world his most coveted, if ever elusive, prize.

Hoover was a man who placed great value on secrets--particularly those of others--and was not afraid to use that information to exert authority over the leading figures in the nation. Understanding that knowledge is power and fear poses opportunity, he used both to gain unprecedented influence and to build a reputation that was both formidable and untouchable.

He was as guarded in his private life as he was in his public one, allowing only a small and protective inner circle into his confidence. His closest colleague, Clyde Tolson, was also his constant companion. His secretary, Helen Gandy, who was perhaps most privy to Hoover's designs, remained loyal to the end...and beyond. Only Hoover's mother, who served as his inspiration and his conscience, would leave him, her passing truly crushing to the son who forever sought her love and approval.

As seen through the eyes of Hoover himself, "J. Edgar" explores the personal and public life and relationships of a man who could distort the truth as easily as he upheld it during a life devoted to his own idea of justice, often swayed by the darker side of power.

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Martha Marcy May Marlene

Cast:
Elizabeth Olsen, Christopher Abbott, Brady Corbet, Hugh Dancy, Maria Dizzia, Julia Garner, John Hawkes, Louisa Krause, Sarah Paulson

Director:
Sean Durkin

Genre:
Drama, Thriller

MPAA Rating:
R for disturbing violent and sexual content, nudity and language.

Runtime:
1 hour 42 minutes

Synopsis:
MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE stars Elizabeth Olsen as Martha, a damaged woman haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia, who struggles to reassimilate with her family after fleeing a cult.

martha marcy may marlene
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Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol

Cast:
Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton, Ving Rhames, Josh Holloway, Simon Pegg, Michael Nyqvist, Anil Kapoor, Lea Seydoux, Tom Wilkinson, Vladimir Mashkov, Samuli Edelmann

Director:
Brad Bird

Genre:
Action, Adventure

MPAA Rating:
PG-13 for sequences of intense action and violence.

Runtime:
2 hours 13 minutes

Synopsis:
The IMF is shut down when it's implicated in a global terrorist bombing plot. Ghost Protocol is initiated and Ethan Hunt and his rogue new team must go undercover to clear their organization's name. No help, no contact, off the grid. You have never seen a mission grittier and more intense than this.

MI 4
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows

Cast:
Robert Downey Jr., Rachel McAdams, Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Stephen Fry, Jared Harris, Kelly Reilly, Eddie Marsan, Gilles Lellouche, Geraldine James, William Houston

Director:
Guy Ritchie

Genre:
Action, Adventure

MPAA Rating:
2 hours 9 minutes

Runtime:
2 hours 16 minutes

Synopsis:
Sherlock Holmes has always been the smartest man in the room... until now. There is a new criminal mastermind at large-Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris)-and not only is he Holmes' intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may actually give him an advantage over the renowned detective.

When the Crown Prince of Austria is found dead, the evidence, as construed by Inspector Lestrade (Eddie Marsan), points to suicide. But Sherlock Holmes deduces that the prince has been the victim of murder-a murder that is only one piece of a larger and much more portentous puzzle, designed by one Professor Moriarty.

Mixing business with pleasure, Holmes tracks the clues to an underground gentlemen's club, where he and his brother, Mycroft Holmes (Stephen Fry) are toasting Dr. Watson on his last night of bachelorhood. It is there that Holmes encounters Sim (Noomi Rapace), a Gypsy fortune teller, who sees more than she is telling and whose unwitting involvement in the prince's murder makes her the killer's next target. Holmes barely manages to save her life and, in return, she reluctantly agrees to help him.

The investigation becomes ever more dangerous as it leads Holmes, Watson and Sim across the continent, from England to France to Germany and finally to Switzerland. But the cunning Moriarty is always one step ahead as he spins a web of death and destruction-all part of a greater plan that, if he succeeds, will change the course of history.

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Cast:
Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hardy, Mark Strong, John Hurt, Stephen Graham, Toby Jones, Ciaran Hinds, David Dencik, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Kathy Burke, Laura Carmichael, Christian McKay, Simon McBurney

Director:
Tomas Alfredson

Genre:
Spy Thriller

MPAA Rating:
R for language, brief drug use and sexuality.

Runtime:
2 hours 7 minutes

Synopsis:
"Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" is the long-awaited feature film version of John le Carre's classic bestselling novel. The thriller is directed by Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In). The screenplay adaptation is by the writing team of Bridget O'Connor & Peter Straughan.

The time is 1973. The Cold War of the mid-20th Century continues to damage international relations. Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), a.k.a. MI6 and code-named the Circus, is striving to keep pace with other countries' espionage efforts and to keep the U.K. secure. The head of the Circus, known as Control (John Hurt), personally sends dedicated operative Jim Prideaux (Mark Strong) into Hungary. But Jim's mission goes bloodily awry, and Control is forced out of the Circus - as is his top lieutenant, George Smiley (Gary Oldman), a career spy with razor-sharp senses.Estranged from his absent wife Ann, Smiley is soon called in to see undersecretary Oliver Lacon (Simon McBurney); he is to be rehired in secret at the government's behest, as there is a gnawing fear that the Circus has long been compromised by a double agent, or mole, working for the Soviets and jeopardizing England. Supported by younger agent Peter Guillam (Benedict Cumberbatch), Smiley parses Circus activities past and present. In trying to track and identify the mole, Smiley is haunted by his decades-earlier interaction with the shadowy Russian spy master Karla.

The mole's trail remains cold until maverick field agent Ricki Tarr (Tom Hardy) unexpectedly contacts Lacon. While undercover in Turkey, Ricki has fallen for a betrayed married woman, Irina (Svetlana Khodchenkova), who claims to possess crucial intelligence. Separately, Smiley learns that Control narrowed down the list of mole suspects to five men. They are the ambitious Percy Alleline (Toby Jones), whom he had code-named Tinker; suavely confident Bill Haydon (Colin Firth), dubbed Tailor; stalwart Roy Bland (Ciaran Hinds), called Soldier; officious Toby Esterhase (David Dencik), dubbed Poor Man; and - Smiley himself.

Even before the startling truth is revealed, the emotional and physical tolls on the players enmeshed in the deadly international spy game will escalate...

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War Horse

Cast:
Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, Peter Mullan, David Thewlis, Benedict Cumberbatch, Stephen Graham, Tom Hiddleston, Niels Arestrup, Celine Buckens, David Kross, Patrick Kennedy, Rainer Bock, Nicolas Bro, Leonard Carow, Robert Emms

Director:
Steven Spielberg

Genre:
Adventure

MPAA Rating:
PG-13 for intense sequences of war violence.

Runtime:
2 hours 26 minutes

Synopsis:
From director Steven Spielberg comes "War Horse," an epic adventure for audiences of all ages. Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, "War Horse" begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets-British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter-before the story reaches its emotional climax in the heart of No Man's Land.

The First World War is experienced through the journey of this horse-an odyssey of joy and sorrow, passionate friendship and high adventure. "War Horse" is one of the great stories of friendship and war-a successful book, it was turned into a hugely successful international theatrical hit that is arriving on Broadway next year. It now comes to screen in an epic adaptation by one of the great directors in film history.

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The Way

Cast:
Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Deborah Kara Unger, Spencer Garrett, James Nesbitt

Director:
Emilio Estevez

Genre:
Drama

MPAA Rating:
PG-13 for some thematic elements, drug use and smoking.

Runtime:
1 hour 45 minutes

Synopsis:
Martin Sheen plays Tom, an American doctor who comes to St Jean Pied de Port, France to collect the remains of his adult son, killed in the Pyrenees in a storm while walking The Camino de Santiago, also known as The Way of St James. Driven by his profound sadness and desire to understand his son better, Tom decides to embark on the historical pilgrimage, leaving his "California bubble life" behind.Armed with his son's backpack and guidebook, Tom navigates the 800km pilgrimage from the Pyrenees, to Santiago de Compostela in the north west of Spain, but soon discovers that he will not be alone on this journey. While walking The Camino, Tom meets other pilgrims from around the world, all broken and looking for greater meaning in their lives: a Dutchman (Yorick van Wageningen) a Canadian (Deborah Kara Unger) and an Irish writer (James Nesbitt) who is suffering from a bout of "writer's block"

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We Bought A Zoo

Cast:
Matt Damon, Thomas Haden Church, Scarlett Johansson, Elle Fanning, Patrick Fugit, Angus MacFadyen, John Michael Higgins, Colin Ford

Director:
Cameron Crowe

Genre:
Comedy, Drama, Family

MPAA Rating:
PG for language and some thematic elements.

Runtime:
2 hours 4 minutes

Synopsis:
Based on a memoir by Benjamin Mee. Mee, along with his children, had to balance caring for his wife, who was dying of brain cancer, with dealing with escaped tigers, raising endangered animals, working with an eclectic skeleton crew and readying the zoo for a reopening.

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Young Adult

Cast:
Charlize Theron, Patton Oswalt, Patrick Wilson, Elizabeth Reaser, J.K. Simmons, Emily Meade, Collette Wolfe, Brady Smith, Louisa Krause

Director:
Jason Reitman

Genre:
Comedy, Drama

MPAA Rating:
R for language and some sexual content.

Runtime:
1 hour 34 minutes

Synopsis:
Academy Award winner Charlize Theron plays Mavis Gary, a writer of teen literature who returns to her small hometown to relive her glory days and attempt to reclaim her happily married high school sweetheart (Patrick Wilson). When returning home proves more difficult than she thought, Mavis forms an unusual bond with a former classmate (Patton Oswalt) who hasn't quite gotten over high school, either.

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