Movies Released January 13, 2017

Patriots Day

Chronicles the events surrounding the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing. J.K. Simmons will play Sergeant Jeffrey Pugliese of the Watertown Police Department who distinguished himself in combat with Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Mark Wahlberg will play a composite Boston Police Department officer who is central to the investigation and manhunt.

Rachel Brosnahan, Mark Wahlberg, J.K. Simmons, Kevin Bacon, Dylan Clark, Michelle Monaghan, Alex Wolff, Jimmy O. Yang.

Monster Trucks

An original film based on the popularity of Monster Trucks. Revolves around vehicles typically styled after pickup trucks' bodies, modified or purposely built with extremely large wheels and suspension.

Jane Levy, Chris Wedge, Rob Lowe, Lucas Till, Barry Pepper, Danny Glover, Frank Whaley, Jonathan Aibel

Silence

The adaptation of a Japanese novel by Shusaku Endo is the martyrdom-themed tale of two 17th century Portuguese missionaries who return to Japan to minister to Christians, who've been outlawed.

Liam Neeson, Adam Driver, Andrew Garfield, Randall Emmett, Martin Scorsese, Graham King, George Furla, Jay Cocks

Live by Night

Set during the 1920s and involves Babe Ruth going to New York as well as the fixing of the World Series.

Elle Fanning, Zoe Saldana, Ben Affleck, Sienna Miller, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Davisson Killoran, Chris Messina, Chris Cooper

The Bye Bye Man

Story is based on true and terrifying events that occurred in Wisconsin in the 1990’s.

Carrie-Anne Moss, Douglas Smith, Jonathan Penner, Doug Jones, Stacy Title, David Prior, Cressida Bonas, Lucien Laviscount

Sleepless

An undercover cop tries to get back his kidnapped son from a drug-dealing nightclub owner.

Dermot Mulroney, Roy Lee, Michelle Monaghan, Andrea Berloff, Gabrielle Union, Scoot McNairy, Baran bo Odar, Adam Stone

The Crash

Set in the future when the US economy is on the brink of yet another massive financial crisis, The Crash tells the story of Guy Clifton, a federally-indicted stock trader, who is secretly enlisted by the federal government to help thwart a cyber-attack aimed at the US stock markets – an attack that could permanently cripple the economy.

Our ‘richer than God’ protagonist is charged with assembling a team capable of running the government’s top secret ‘shadow stock exchange’ in an attempt to keep the markets from mass panic in the event the cyber-hijack is successful. Having only ever been fueled by his love of money, Guy fully intends to use his insider knowledge of this world catastrophe for personal gain until he unearths the organization behind the attack and discovers its motives. For the first time in his life, Guy is challenged to make decisions not only for himself, but also for the good of his country – decisions that are rooted in morality rather than dollar signs.

Aram Rappaport, Atit Shah, Aaron Becker, Peter Shuldiner, Isaac LaMell, Hilary Shor

The Book of Love

Set in New Orleans, a grieving introverted architect, whose wife recently died in a car accident, finds refuge by helping a wisecracking young girl fulfill her dream of building a raft and sailing across the Atlantic Ocean.

Jessica Biel, Jason Sudeikis, Maisie Williams, Bill Purple, Robbie Pickering, Richard Robichaux, Michelle Purple, Mary Steenburgen

20th Century Women

Set in 1979, three very different women teach a boy what men are, what women are, and about love and freedom in Santa Barbara.

Elle Fanning, Lucas Jade Zumann, Mike Mills, Annette Bening, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup

100 Streets

The drama explores the interconnecting stories of a former rugby star (Iris Elba) and his wife (Gemma Arterton), a small time drug dealer (Franz Drameh) and a photographer (Tom Cullen) in London.

Gemma Arterton, Idris Elba, Kierston Wareing, Jim O’Hanlon, Leon F. Butler, Charlie Creed-Miles, Franz Drameh, Tom Cullen

Claire in Motion

Claire is sure of herself, her work and family, until - like a bad dream - her husband disappears, leaving a trail of puzzling secrets that shatter her certainty.

Annie J. Howell, Anna Margaret Hollyman, Lisa Robinson, Betsy Brandt, Chris Beetem, Sakina Jaffrey

48 Hours to Live

At the center of the glamorous and fast-paced Hollywood dance underworld, Wyatt, an aspiring dancer who grew up on the wrong side of the tracks and has been in and out of trouble with the law, is forced by the DEA to work undercover in a nightclub known for their illegal activities. Everything changes when he falls in love with the wealthy club owner’s daughter and the twists and turns his life takes threaten to tear their romance apart.

Benny Boom, Hannah Macpherson, James Maslow, Bianca Santos, Caitlin McHugh, Beau Casper Smart, Emilio Rivera, Cody Longo

The Sunshine Makers

Reveals the untold story of Nicholas Sand and Tim Scully, the unlikely duo at the heart of 1960s American drug counter-culture. United in a utopian mission to save the planet through the consciousness-raising power of LSD, these underground chemists manufactured a massive amount of acid, including the gold standard for quality LSD, ‘Orange Sunshine,’ all while staying one step ahead of the Feds.

Bad Kids of Crestview Academy

Based on the best-selling graphic novel series, a group of spoiled “bad kids” have been placed in Saturday detention at the prestigious Crestview Academy. After one of the kids locks away their teacher, they find themselves trapped in school with no way out, wondering who (or what) set them up. Their ranks quickly dwindle as each falls victim to a gruesome “accident” while trying to escape.

Drake Bell, Sean Astin, Sammi Hanratty, Ben Browder, Matthew Spradlin, Barry Wernick, James R. Hallam, Gina Gershon

Alone in Berlin

Otto and Anna Quangel (Brendan Gleeson & Emma Thompson) are a working class husband and wife doing their best to ride out the war. When their son is killed fighting on the frontlines, however, everything changes. They begin pouring their rage and grief into postcards emblazoned with anti-Nazi slogans, risking everything to disseminate their messages of protest across the city. But this seemingly small act of subversion rattles the regime, including a police inspector (Daniel Brühl) who will not rest until the culprits have been caught.

Emma Thompson, Vincent Perez, Brendan Gleeson, Daniel Brühl

Worlds Apart

Set in modern day Greece, Worlds Apart is comprised of three separate narratives each following a love story between a foreigner and a Greek. Each story represents a different generation falling in love during a time of socioeconomic turmoil that dominates Southern Europe as a whole, only to connect as a single story in the end. Almost like a triptych work of art where each painting stands alone, yet its true impact lies when viewed as a whole.

Christopher Papakaliatis

Sophie and the Rising Sun

Set in the autumn of 1941 in Salty Creek, a fishing village in South Carolina, the film tells the dramatic story of interracial lovers swept up in the tides of history. As World War II rages in Europe a wounded Asian stranger, Mr. Ohta, appears in the town under mysterious circumstances. Sophie, a native of Salty Creek, quickly becomes transfixed by Mr. Ohta and a friendship born of their mutual love of art blossoms into a delicate and forbidden courtship. As their secret relationship evolves the war escalates tragically. When Pearl Harbor is bombed, a surge of misguided patriotism, bigotry and violence sweeps through the town, threatening Mr. Ohta’s life. A trio of women, each with her own secrets - Sophie, along with the town matriarch and her housekeeper - rejects law and propriety, risking their lives with their actions.

Julianne Nicholson, Margo Martindale, Diane Ladd, Lorraine Toussaint, Maggie Greenwald, Takashi Yamaguchi