GET REEL: The Week of September 14th, 2011
Today marks the beginning of a new weekly column akin to The Pull List, titled Get Reel. The weekly column will include summaries for the week’s major theatrical releases and where possible include theatrical trailers and posters.
Now, onto the good stuff,
Plot Summary: DRIVE is the story of a Hollywood stunt driver by day, a loner by nature who moonlights as a top-notch getaway driver-for-hire in the criminal underworld. He finds himself a target for some of LA’s most dangerous men after agreeing to aid the husband of his beautiful neighbor, Irene. When the job goes dangerously awry, the only way he can keep Irene and her son alive is to do what he does best-Drive.
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Ron Perlman
Written By: Hossein Amini (screenplay), James Sallis (book)
Directed By: Nicolas Winding Refn
Plot Summary: Kate Reddy (Sarah Jessica Parker) devotes her days to her job with a Boston-based financial management firm. At night she goes home to her adoring, recently-downsized architect husband Richard (Greg Kinnear) and their two young children. It’s a non-stop balancing act, the same one that Kate’s acerbic best friend and fellow working mother Allison (Christina Hendricks) performs on a daily basis, and that Kate’s super-brainy, child-phobic young junior associate Momo (Olivia Munn) fully intends to avoid.
When Kate gets handed a major new account that will require frequent trips to New York, Richard also wins the new job he’s been hoping for—and both will be spreading themselves even thinner. Complicating matters is Kate’s charming new business associate Jack Abelhammer (Pierce Brosnan), who begins to prove an unexpected source of temptation.
Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Greg Kinnear, Christina Hendricks, Olivia Munn, Pierce Brosnan
Written By: Aline Brosh McKenna
Directed By: Douglas McGrath
Plot Summary: An unforgettable story, breathtaking animation, beloved characters and award-winning music sets the stage for THE LION KING, a Disney classic that follows the adventures of Simba, the feisty lion cub who “just can’t wait to be king.” But his envious Uncle Scar has plans for his own ascent to the throne, and he forces Simba’s exile from the kingdom. Alone and adrift, Simba soon joins the escapades of a hilarious meerkat named Timon and his warmhearted warthog pal, Pumbaa. Adopting their carefree lifestyle of “Hakuna Matata,” Simba ignores his real responsibilities until he realizes his destiny and returns to the Pride Lands to claim his place in the “Circle of Life.” Now in 3D.
Written By: Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts, Linda Woolverton
Directed By: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff
Plot Summary: David and Amy Sumner (James Marsden and Kate Bosworth), a Hollywood screenwriter and his actress wife, return to her small hometown in the deep South to prepare the family home for sale after her father’s death. Once there, tensions build in their marriage and old conflicts re-emerge with the locals, including Amy’s ex-boyfriend Charlie (Alexander Skarsgård), leading to a violent confrontation. Remake of Sam Peckinpah’s 1971 film.
Starring: James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, Alexander Skarsgård
Written By: Rod Lurie
Directed By: Rod Lurie
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