2016 Movies : Adaptation

With George Clooney • Jake Gyllenhaal • Isla Fisher • Amy Adams • Armie Hammer • Michael Shannon • Ellie Bamber • Laura Linney • Aaron Johnson • Tom Ford • Grant Heslov

The plot is described as a "story inside a story," with the first part following a woman named Susan who receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband, a man whom she left 20 years earlier, asking for her opinion. The second part of the story follows the actual manuscript, called "Nocturnal Animals," which revolves around a man whose family vacation turns violent and deadly. It also continues to follow the story of Susan, who finds herself recalling her first marriage and confronting some dark truths about herself.

With Patrick Wilson • Jessica Biel • Haley Bennett • Christine Vachon • Eddie Marsan • Ted Hope • Susan Boyd • William Boyd • Andy Goddard

In 1960s New York, Walter Stackhouse is a successful architect married to the beautiful Clara who leads a seemingly perfect life. But his fascination with an unsolved murder leads him into a spiral of chaos as he is forced to play cat-and-mouse with a clever killer and an overambitious detective, while at the same time lusting after another woman.

With Liam Neeson • Felicity Jones • Sigourney Weaver • Toby Kebbell • Juan Antonio Bayona • Geraldine Chaplin • Belen Atienza • Patrick Ness • Lewis MacDougall

Follows 12-year-old Conor (Lewis MacDougall) who attempts to deal with his mother's (Felicity Jones, who stars in Focus’ fall release The Theory of Everything) illness and the bullying of his classmates by escaping into a fantastical world of monsters and fairy tales that explore courage, loss and faith.

With Liam Neeson • Andrew Garfield • Adam Driver • Ciaran Hinds • Randall Emmett • Martin Scorsese • George Furla • Jay Cocks • Issei Ogata • Graham King

Tells the story of two Christian missionaries (Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver) who face the ultimate test of faith when they travel to Japan in search of their missing mentor (Liam Neeson) – at a time when Christianity was outlawed and their presence forbidden.

With Leonardo DiCaprio • Ben Affleck • Elle Fanning • Sienna Miller • Zoe Saldana • Chris Messina • Benny Ciaramello • Chris Cooper • Jennifer Davisson Killoran

Live by Night is set in the roaring '20s, when Prohibition hasn’t stopped the flow of booze in an underground network of gangster-run speakeasies. The opportunity to gain power and money is there for any man with enough ambition and nerve, and Joe Coughlin, the son of the Boston Police Superintendent, long ago turned his back on his strict upbringing for the spoils of being an outlaw. But even among criminals there are rules, and Joe breaks a big one: crossing a powerful mob boss by stealing his money and his moll. The fiery affair ends in tragedy, setting Joe on a path of revenge, ambition, romance and betrayal that propels him out of Boston and up the ladder of Tampa’s steamy rum-running underworld.