Movies Released October 5, 2012

Released Friday, October 5th

95%

4.3 / 5

(111)

Taken 2

Theaters

Sequel to Pierre Morel directed thriller in which a former spy rescues his kidnapped daughter.

Liam Neeson, Luke Grimes, Maggie Grace, Luc Besson, Famke Janssen, Olivier Megaton, Robert Mark Kamen, Rade Sherbedgia

PG-13 Drama Action

95% WILL SEE

4.3 / 5

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67%

4.4 / 5

(74)

Pitch Perfect (10th Annivers...

Theaters

Set in the world of collegiate a cappella competitions.

Anna Kendrick, Elizabeth Banks, Anna Camp, Brittany Snow, Paul Brooks, Max Handelman, Freddie Stroma, Christopher Mintz-Plasse

PG-13 Comedy Musical

67% WILL SEE

4.4 / 5

Coming Soon On Amazon

80%

3.8 / 5

(53)

Frankenweenie

Theaters

After being hit by a car, a pet dog is brought back to life by his loyal owner, a young boy, who creates elaborate machines which bring down a bolt of lightning that revives the animal.

Martin Short, Tim Burton, Winona Ryder, Martin Landau, Robert Capron, Christopher Lee, Allison Abbate, John August

PG Fantasy Suspense 1 hr, 27 mins

80% WILL SEE

3.8 / 5

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78%

3.6 / 5

(42)

Jack, the slacker son of a backwater Florida newspaper editor and publisher, gets pulled into his older, big-city reporter brother's investigation of a rural sheriff's murder, and whether the death-row inmate convicted of it was truly responsible.

Matthew McConaughey, John Cusack, Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron, Scott Glenn, Danny Dimbort, Lee Daniels, Hilary Shor

R Drama Thriller

78% WILL SEE

3.6 / 5

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40%

4 / 5

(3)

Sister

Limited

Simon (Kacey Mottet Klein) lives with his older sister (Lea Seydoux) in a housing complex below a luxury Swiss ski resort. With his sister drifting in and out of jobs and relationships, twelve-year-old Simon takes on the responsibility of providing for the two of them. Every day, he takes the lift up to the opulent ski world above, stealing equipment from rich tourists to resell to the local kids down in the valley. He is able to keep their little family afloat with his small-time hustles and his sister is thankful for the money he brings in. But, when Simon partners with a crooked British seasonal worker, he begins to lose his boundaries, affecting his relationship with his sister and plummeting him into dangerous territory.

Gillian Anderson, Kacey Mottet Klein, Ursula Meier, Léa Seydoux, Martin Compston

NR Drama 1 hr, 40 mins

40% WILL SEE

4 / 5

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62%

3.2 / 5

(17)

Butter

Limited

Destiny, a black foster child, faces off against Iowa’s reigning dairy diva, the beautiful but venal Laura Pickler, in an epic butter-carving competition for the ages.

Alicia Silverstone, Ashley Greene, Juliana Janes, Olivia Wilde, Jennifer Garner, Hugh Jackman, Alissa Phillips, Jim Field Smith

R Comedy 1 hr, 32 mins

62% WILL SEE

3.2 / 5

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83%

4.4 / 5

(14)

The Oranges

Limited

Story centers on a man’s romantic relationship with the daughter of a family friend, which turns their lives upside down.

Glen Basner, Leighton Meester, Leslie Urdang, Catherine Keener, Hugh Laurie, Oliver Platt, Adam Brody, Allison Janney

Drama Comedy

83% WILL SEE

4.4 / 5

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20%

1 / 5

(1)

Decoding Depak

Limited

Journalist and filmmaker Gotham Chopra spends a year traveling the world decoding his father Deepak Chopra, resolving the spiritual icon he is to the world vs. the real man known to his family. What starts as an intimate biopic becomes a deeper plunge into the meaning of identity itself.

Scott Carlin, Darlene Caamano Loquet, Julian Robinson, Gotham Chopra, Mark Rinehart, Deepak Chopra, Emilio Diez Barroso

Documentary

20% WILL SEE

1 / 5

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85%

3.3 / 5

(4)

Wuthering Heights

Limited

Natalie Portman will portray the iconic Catherine Earnshaw.

Kaya Scodelario, Nichola Burley, Andrea Arnold, Robert Bernstein, Douglas Rae, Kevin Loader, Olivia Hetreed

Drama Biography

85% WILL SEE

3.3 / 5

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61%

4.1 / 5

(14)

V/H/S

Limited

When a group of petty criminals is hired by a mysterious party to retrieve a rare piece of found footage from a rundown house in the middle of nowhere, they soon realize that the job isn’t going to be as easy as they thought. In the living room, a lifeless body holds court before a hub of old television sets, surrounded by stacks upon stacks of VHS tapes. As they search for the right one, they are treated to a seemingly endless number of horrifying videos, each stranger than the last.

Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, David Bruckner, Sophia Takal, Glenn McQuaid, Ti West, Calvin Reeder, Lane Hughes, Adam Wingard

R Thriller Suspense 1 hr, 33 mins

61% WILL SEE

4.1 / 5

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67%

4.2 / 5

(5)

#holdyourbreath

Limited

Based on the urban myth that you can breathe in evil spirits when passing cemeteries, #holdyourbreath follows seven friends embarking on a weekend camping trip who pass a run-down cemetery and find themselves arguing about the legitimacy of the urban myth. When one friend refuses to hold his breath while passing by, he finds himself the unwitting host to a notorious serial killer who jumps from body to body in order to pick off each of the friends one by one.

Katrina Bowden, Jared Cohn, Randy Wayne

R Suspense Horror

67% WILL SEE

4.2 / 5

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67%

4 / 5

(3)

Trade of Innocents

Limited

In the back streets of a tourist town in present-day Southeast Asia, we find a filthy cinder block room; a bed with soiled sheets; a little girl waits for the next man to use her. Alex, a human trafficking investigator plays the role of her next customer as he negotiates with the pimp for the use of the child. Claire, Alexs wife, is caught up in the flow of her new life in Southeast Asia and her role as a volunteer in an aftercare shelter for rescued girls. She, and Alex both still are dealing with their grief of losing a child years earlier. As both of them struggle in their own way to overcome the pain of their past and realities of child exploitation where they now live and work, they find themselves being pulled together into the lives of local neighborhood girls, whose freedom and dignity are threatened.

Dermot Mulroney, Christopher Bessette, John Billingsley, Trieu Tran

Thriller

67% WILL SEE

4 / 5

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93%

Little Red Wagon

Limited

It all started during Hurricane Charlie. Zach Bonner, then just 6 years old, took his little red wagon door to door in his neighborhood to collect clean water for the victims. After four months, Zach had collected 27 truck loads of supplies.

David Kanter, Anna Gunn, Chandler Canterbury, Frances O'Connor, David Anspaugh, Michael Guillen, Patrick Duncan, Dylan Matzke

Drama

93% WILL SEE

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55%

The Knot

Limited

Follows the tale of a couple who are about to get married but see a series of mishaps, including missing bridesmaids and crashed cars, wreak havoc to their upcoming wedding day.

Mena Suvari, Talulah Riley, Davie Fairbanks, Geoff Carino, Noel Clarke, Matthew McNulty, Jason Maza, Juliet Oldfield

NR Comedy Romance

55% WILL SEE

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Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare Poster

39%

3 / 5

(2)

Escape Fire: The Fight to Re...

Limited

Tackles one of the most pressing issues of our time: how can we save our badly broken healthcare system? Director/Producers Matthew Heineman (OUR TIME) and award-winning Susan Froemke (WAGNER'S DREAM, LALEE'S KIN: THE LEGACY OF COTTON) interweave dramatic personal arcs of patients and physicians with the stories of leaders battling to transform healthcare at the highest levels of medicine, industry, government, and even the U.S. military. ESCAPE FIRE is about finding a way out of our current crisis. It's a primer on how to save the health of a nation.

Matthew Heineman, Susan Froemke

Documentary

39% WILL SEE

3 / 5

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65%

5 / 5

(1)

The House I Live In

Limited

ilmed in more than twenty states, The House I Live In captures heart-wrenching stories from individuals at all levels of America's War on Drugs. From the dealer to the grieving mother, the narcotics officer to the senator, the inmate to the federal judge, the film offers a penetrating look inside America's longest war, offering a definitive portrait and revealing its profound human rights implications.

Eugene Jarecki

NR Documentary

65% WILL SEE

5 / 5

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36%

4.2 / 5

(6)

Wake in Fright

NYC Only

Tells the story of a British schoolteacher's (Gary Bond) descent into personal demoralization at the hands of drunken, deranged derelicts (including a very inebriated "doctor" played by Donald Pleasence), while stranded in a small town in outback Australia.

Ted Kotcheff

NR Suspense Re-Release 1 hr, 56 mins

36% WILL SEE

4.2 / 5

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50%

4.3 / 5

(4)

The American Scream

LA Only

Every Halloween, sleepy Fairhaven, Massachusetts erupts with the most ambitiously creative spookery in the world. Endless styrofoam tombstones and backyard beasts come courtesy of a few supremely dedicated local "home haunters" who've devoted their lives to the art of handmade monstermaking. The American Scream follow s three of these horrific households to uncover the triumphs and tragedies that come with carrying the blackened banner of true Halloween spirit.

Michael Stephenson

NR Documentary

50% WILL SEE

4.3 / 5

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100%

5 / 5

(1)

The Revisionaries

Limited

An urgent expose of the culture wars being fought within America's public school system, The Revisionaries is a behind-the-scenes look at the Texas State Board of Education's decade-defining conference on state textbook standards. As Texas is the country's single largest textbook buyer--and publishers are forced to re-write content to comply with their educational standards--the board's decisions have the ability to affect the future of American education.

Scott Thurman

Historical Documentary 1 hr, 32 mins

100% WILL SEE

5 / 5

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