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NO NEW OPENINGS THIS WEEKEND – ALL THE BIG ONES OPENED LAST WEEK FOR AMERICAN THANKSGIVING
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1. ONE DAY:
Anne Hathaway, whose career wasn’t helped by her co-hosting of the Oscars earlier this year, co-stars with Jim Sturgess in what sets out to be a bittersweet romantic comedy. It actually contains more of the bittersweet, and less of the comedy, but it’s a serviceable romance with an interesting premise. Sturgess is Dexter, Hathaway is Emma and they spend one night together on the eve of their college graduation. The story then takes us to that same date, one year later, to check in on them … and a year after that, and a year after that. Sometimes they are together, sometimes not. Shot on location in Scotland. Rated 14A.
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2. OUR IDIOT BROTHER:
Idiots abound in this lame comedy, not just at the “brother” level. Paul Rudd is the star here, playing a patented slacker/doper that could easily be Harold, Kumar, or Seth Rogan … but it’s Paul Rudd. He has three sisters, and when he ends up falling into a bad state with his girlfriend – maybe the marijuana trafficking charge and subsequent jail time had something to do with that … so he goes to each of his sisters in turn, bunking in with them, and slowly destroying their marriages and other relationships in turn. Elizabeth Banks and Zooey Deschanel co-star – a cast far better than the movie, it turns out. Rated 14A.
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3. THE ART OF GETTING BY:
A vastly underrated movie that didn’t get the time in theatres or the notice it deserved stars Freddie Highmore (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Spiderwick Chronicles) as a young man who manages to get all the way through school, right to graduation, without ever having done a stitch of work in his life. Emma Roberts (Julia’s niece) co-stars plays Sally, a complicated young woman who just might, despite all her challenges, be a bird of a feather. George, Highmore’s character, is depressed and fatalistic with nothing to live for … until Emma comes along – but that only complicates things further. An offbeat story with some interesting nuances. Rated 14A.
- Fall 2010 TV Debut Week - Click to View
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TAKERS:
Despite some serious plot holes, this is a pretty good thriller. Will you see the ending coming? Probably!
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ARTHUR CHRISTMAS
Standard Christmas animation story of a holiday season that needs to be saved, with a visit to Santa at the North Pole
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HUGO
Intriguing story of an orphan boy living in a Paris train station that is terrific on several levels
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MY WEEK WITH MARYILYN
A little more grown-up, but still terrific! / Intriguing look at Monroe and Sir Laurence Olivier.
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