20th Century Women
Theatrical Release Date: 12/28/2016
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mike Mills
Actors: Elle Fanning, Alia Shawkat, Laura Wiggins, Annette Bening
Plot: Follows the story of three women in Southern California during the 1970s as they experience freedom and love.
Paterson
Theatrical Release Date: 12/28/2016
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Actors: Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani, Chasten Harmon, William Jackson Harper
Plot: Paterson the bus driver lives and works in the city of Paterson, New Jersey. He adheres to a simple schedule but has a hidden passion for poetry. While his life is rote, by contrast his wife, Laura, lives in an ever-changing world with a different project popping up seemingly each day. He supports her ambition while she does the same for his hidden poetry. The city, the man, one week in the life of both and how each affects the other.
Hidden Figures
Theatrical Release Date: 12/25/2016
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Theodore Melfi
Actors: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner
Plot: Before NASA could launch their first successful mission they had to calculate a lot of data. Included in this critical step was a group of African American women, mathematicians, whose contribution to the success of the mission was largely overlooked, until now.
Toni Erdmann
Theatrical Release Date: 12/25/2016
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Maren Ade
Actors: Peter Simonischek, Sandra Hüller, Michael Wittenborn, Thomas Loibl
Plot: Even though his adult daughter seems to have it all together, a father senses something is wrong and will do anything to reconnect with her and bring true happiness back into her life.
