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Get in the Film Festival mood early with a Philadelphia Red Carpet Premiere! Please consider joining the Philadelphia Film Society AFTER the premiere for our CINEMA SPEAKEASY!
In the comedy HERE COMES THE BOOM, former collegiate wrestler Scott Voss (Kevin James, Grown Ups) is a 42-year-old apathetic biology teacher in a failing high school. When cutbacks threaten to cancel the music program and lay off its teacher (Henry Winkler, Click) Scott begins to raise money by moonlighting as a mixed martial arts fighter. Everyone thinks Scott is crazy--most of all the school nurse, Bella (Salma Hayek, Frida)--but in his quest, Scott gains something he never expected as he becomes a sensation that rallies the entire school.
Website: http://www.boom-movie.com/
Trailer: HERE COMES THE BOOM TRAILER
Rating: PG
Runtime: 1 hr 20 mins
Release Date: October 12, 2012
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A hit at the Sundance Film Festival, LIBERAL ARTS is about a bookish and newly single Jesse Fisher (Josh Radnor, "How I Met Your Mother") is a university admissions counselor in his mid-thirties living in New York City who returns to his Ohio alma mater for a retirement dinner honoring Peter Hoburg (Richard Jenkins, The Cabin in the Woods), his favorite English professor. A chance meeting on campus with 19-year-old Zibby (Elizabeth Olsen, Martha Marcy Mae Marlene) - a precocious undergrad who loves classical music, improv and Twilight - awakens in Jesse long-dormant feelings of possibility and connection. The pair strikes up a long-distance epistolary romance, prompting Jesse to return to campus for another visit. Although Zibby appears beyond her years, the age-difference between the budding paramours weights heavily on Jesse, who is torn between moving forward in life, and holding on to the indelible memories of his own university years. Featuring a rich assortment of peripheral characters, including a mystically upbeat party animal (Zac Efron, 17 Again), a brooding young depressive (John Magaro, The Brave One), and a feisty Romantics professor (Allison Janney, The Help), LIBERAL ARTS explores the emotional tug-of-war between youth and adulthood, as played out on a leafy Midwest campus that is both Eden-like and tumultuous - and entirely unforgettable.
Website: http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/liberal-arts
Trailer: LIBERAL ARTS TRAILER
Rating: Not Yet Rated
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Release Date: September 28, 2012
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Straight from its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Philadelphia Film Society is elated to be screening LOOPER in preparation of the 21st Annual Philadelphia Film Festival.
In the futuristic action thriller LOOPER, time travel will be invented - but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past, where a "looper" - a hired gun, like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, 19th Annual Philadelphia Film Festival Archie Award Winner Hesher) - is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good... until the day the mob decides to "close the loop," sending back Joe's future self (Bruce Willis, Die Hard) for assassination. The film is written and directed by Rian Johnson (Brick) and also stars Emily Blunt (The Five Year Engagement), Paul Dano (Ruby Sparks), and Jeff Daniels (The Squid and the Whale).
Website: http://www.loopermovie.com/
Trailer: LOOPER TRAILER
Rating: R
Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins
Release Date: September 28, 2012
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We had SUCH a great turnout for our TO ROME WITH LOVE - Member Hooky Sneak Preview in June that we thought we'd try another! Cut out of work early or join us on your day off for HOPE SPRINGS!
Kay (Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady) and Arnold (Tommy Lee Jones, No Country For Old Men) are a devoted couple, but decades of marriage have left Kay wanting to spice things up and reconnect with her husband. When she hears of a renowned couple's specialist (Steve Carell, Crazy, Stupid, Love) in the small town of Great Hope Springs, she attempts to persuade her skeptical husband, a steadfast man of routine, to get on a plane for a week of marriage therapy. Just convincing the stubborn Arnold to go on the retreat is hard enough--the real challenge for both of them comes as they shed their bedroom hang-ups and try to re-ignite the spark that caused them to fall for each other in the first place.
Website: http://hopesprings-movie.com/
Trailer: HOPE SPRINGS TRAILER
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 1hr 32mins
Release Date: August 8, 2012
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From legendary director Oliver Stone (Platoon, Natural Born Killers), SAVAGES is about Laguna Beach entrepreneurs Ben (Aaron Johnson, Kick Ass), a peaceful and charitable Buddhist, and his closest friend Chon (Taylor Kitsch, Battleship), a former Navy SEAL and ex-mercenary, run a lucrative, homegrown industry-raising some of the best marijuana ever developed. They also share a one-of-a-kind love with the extraordinary beauty Ophelia (Blake Lively, The Town). Life is idyllic in their Southern California town... until the Mexican Baja Cartel decides to move in and demands that the trio partners with them. When the merciless head of the Baja Cartel, Elena (Salma Hayek, Frida), and her brutal enforcer, Lado (Benicio Del Toro, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), underestimate the unbreakable bond among these three friends, Ben and Chon-with the reluctant, slippery assistance of a dirty DEA agent (John Travolta, Pulp Fiction)-wage a seemingly unwinnable war against the cartel. And so begins a series of increasingly vicious ploys and maneuvers in a high-stakes, savage battle of wills.
Website: http://www.savagesfilm.com/
Trailer: SAVAGES TRAILER
Rating: R
Runtime: 1hr 53mins
Release Date: July 6, 2012
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World-Premiering as the Opening-Night Film of the 2012 Cannes International Film Festival. MOONRISE KINGDOM is the new movie directed by two-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Rushmore). Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, MOONRISE KINGDOM tells the story of two 12-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in every which way. Bruce Willis (Die Hard) plays the local sheriff, Captain Sharp. Edward Norton (American History X) is a Khaki Scout troop leader, Scout Master Ward. Bill Murray (Rushmore) and Frances McDormand (Fargo) portray the young girl’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bishop. The cast also includes Tilda Swinton (We Need to Talk About Kevin), Jason Schwartzman (The Darjeeling Limited), and Bob Balaban (Best In Show); and introduces Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward as the boy and girl.
Website: www.MoonriseKingdom.com
Trailer: MOONRISE KINGDOM TRAILER
Release Date: June 8, 2012
Runtime: 1hr 34mins
Rated: PG-13
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Philadelphia Music Film Festival attendee Jody Lambert (director, OF ALL THE THINGS) makes his feature writing debut with PEOPLE LIKE US, a dramedy about family, inspired by true events, starring Chris Pine (Star Trek) as Sam, a twenty-something, fast-talking salesman, whose latest deal collapses on the day he learns that his father has suddenly died. Against his wishes, Sam is called home, where he must put his father's estate in order and reconnect with his estranged family. In the course of fulfilling his father's last wishes, Sam uncovers a startling secret that turns his entire world upside down: He has a 30-year-old sister Frankie whom he never knew about (Elizabeth Banks, The Hunger Games). As their relationship develops, Sam is forced to rethink everything he thought he knew about this family, and re-examine his own life choices in the process.
Website: http://ppllikeusmovie.com/
Trailer: PEOPLE LIKE US TRAILER
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 1hr 55mins
Release Date: June 29, 2012
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In the epic action-adventure SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN, Kristen Stewart (Into the Wild) plays the only person in the land fairer than the evil queen (Oscar winner Charlize Theron, Monster) out to destroy her. But what the wicked ruler never imagined is that the young woman threatening her reign has been training in the art of war with a huntsman (Chris Hemsworth, Thor) dispatched to kill her. Sam Claflin (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides) joins the cast as the prince long enchanted by Snow White's beauty and power. The breathtaking new vision of the legendary tale is from Joe Roth, the producer of Alice in Wonderland, producer Sam Mercer (The Sixth Sense) and acclaimed commercial director and state-of-the-art visualist Rupert Sanders.
Website: http://snowwhiteandthehuntsman.com
Trailer: SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN TRAILER
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Runtime: 2hrs 7mins
Rating: PG-13
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Five friends go to a remote cabin in the woods. Bad things happen. If you think you know this story, think again. From fan favorites Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard comes THE CABIN IN THE WOODS, a mind blowing horror film that turns the genre inside out.
Rated: R
Official Site: http://discoverthecabininthewoods.com
In theaters: April 13th, 2012
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Over 13 million American kids will be bullied this year, making it the most common form of violence experienced by young people in the nation. The new documentary film BULLY, directed by Sundance and Emmy award-winning filmmaker, Lee Hirsch, brings human scale to this startling statistic, offering an intimate, unflinching look at how bullying has affected five kids and their families. BULLY is a beautifully cinematic, character-driven documentary. At its heart are those with huge stakes in this issue whose stories each represent a different facet of America's bullying crisis. Filmed over the course of the 2009/2010 school year, BULLY opens a window onto the pained and often endangered lives of bullied kids, revealing a problem that transcends geographic, racial, ethnic, and economic borders. It documents the responses of teachers and administrators to aggressive behaviors that defy "kids will be kids" cliches, and it captures a growing movement among parents and youths to change how bullying is handled in schools, in communities and in society as a whole.
Trailer:
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/weinstein/bully/
