A timeless story of human connection and self-discovery, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.
The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court.
Following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy fights through grief and trauma to regain her faith, console her children, and define her husband's historic legacy.
Director:
Pablo Larraín
Stars:
Natalie Portman,
Peter Sarsgaard,
Greta Gerwig
A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
Out of work and with no place to live, a fired nanny and a struggling comedian are stuck house-sitting together. To get back on their feet, this odd couple reluctantly helps each other ... See full summary »
Director:
Katharine Emmer
Stars:
Josh McDermitt,
Katharine Emmer,
Adam Lustick
A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.
Manchester-by-the-sea is a real town on the north shore of Massachusetts. See more »
Goofs
In the emotional scene where Randi apologizes to Lee, her mouth sometimes can be seen moving from a back shot even though she is not talking. See more »
This is an engrossing, compassionate, deeply moving film. For me, it's the best kind of story-telling: it's impossible to predict the turns it takes, but when they are taken they are completely plausible. Writer/director Kenneth Lonergan has done an exceptional job.
Casey Affleck leads a superb cast with his amazing performance. A climactic scene between him and the ever-wonderful Michelle Williams is destined to become a classic.
A word for Jody Lee Lipes' cinematography, which is beautiful, setting all the pain in the movie in the context of the shifting light of the eponymous small coastal town.
There are a few flaws here and there, generated I think by editing less than perfectly matched reverse shots; and there is one sequence in which Lonergan takes a real risk with a famous piece of music -- for me it worked, but for others it may not. But this is nit-picking. I was so full of emotion by the end of this movie that I couldn't speak. That really hasn't happened for a long time.
This is a film about real life. Please see it.
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This is an engrossing, compassionate, deeply moving film. For me, it's the best kind of story-telling: it's impossible to predict the turns it takes, but when they are taken they are completely plausible. Writer/director Kenneth Lonergan has done an exceptional job.
Casey Affleck leads a superb cast with his amazing performance. A climactic scene between him and the ever-wonderful Michelle Williams is destined to become a classic.
A word for Jody Lee Lipes' cinematography, which is beautiful, setting all the pain in the movie in the context of the shifting light of the eponymous small coastal town.
There are a few flaws here and there, generated I think by editing less than perfectly matched reverse shots; and there is one sequence in which Lonergan takes a real risk with a famous piece of music -- for me it worked, but for others it may not. But this is nit-picking. I was so full of emotion by the end of this movie that I couldn't speak. That really hasn't happened for a long time.
This is a film about real life. Please see it.