THIS WEEKS NEW RELEASE MOVIES : 7/5/14 SAVING MR BANKS 125 MIN DRAMA PG STARRING EMMA THOMPSON, TOM HANKS, ANNIE ROSE BUCKLEY, COLIN FARRELL Sydney Morning Herald “ A SPOONFUL OF MAGIC” Walt Disney spent the best part of 20 years pursuing the author of Mary Poppins P.L. Travers for the film rights. Finally, she agrees to fly to Los Angeles to discuss the film adaptation. Travers is seen as toffee-nosed about everything Hollywood and determined to protect her famous book from others ideas about how the book should be adapted for the movie. The film also depicts Travers early life in Australia with a feckless but charming father. THE BOOK THIEF 128 MIN DRAMA/WAR PG STARRING GEOFFREY RUSH, ROGER ALLAM, SOPHIE NELISSE, EMILY WATSON, JULIAN LEHMANN BASED ON THE BEST SELLING BOOK The Book Thief tells the story of Liesel, extraordinary and courageous young girl sent to live with a foster family in World War 2 Germany. She learns to read with encouragement from her new family and Max, a Jewish refugee who they are hiding under the stairs. For Liesel and Max the power of words and imagination become the only escape from tumultuous events happening around them. The Book Thief is a life-affirming story of survival and the resilience of the human spirit. THE SPECTACULAR NOW 95 MIN COMEDY M STARRING MILES TELLER, SHAILENE WOODLEY, BRIE LARSON, MASAM HOLDEN The story of Sutter Keely, a high school senior and self-proclaimed “life of the party” who unexpectedly falls in love with “nice girl” Aimee Fineky. While Aimee dreams of the future, Sutter lives in the now and yet somehow, they’re drawn together. What starts as an unlikely romance becomes a sharp-eyed, straight-up snapshot of the heady confusion and haunting passion of youth. AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY 117 MIN DRAMA MA STARRING JULIA ROBERTS, MERYL STREEP, EWAN MCGREGOR, MERMOTT MULRONEY A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston Family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Oklahoma house they grew up in and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them. THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY 112 MIN ADVENTURE PG STARRING BEN STILLER, KRISTEN WIIG, JON DALY, KATHRYN HAHN A day-dreamer escapes his anonymous life by disappearing into a world of fantasies filled with heroism, romance and action. When his job along with that of his co-worker are threatened, he takes action in the real world embarking on a global journey that turns into an adventure more extraordinary than anything he could have ever imagined. NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON 111 MIN DRAMA M STARRING JEREMY IRONS, MELANIE LAURENT, JACK HUSTON, MARTINA GEDECK High School Latin teacher Raimund Gregorius finds his life transformed when he saves a young Portuguese woman from jumping to her death. After the woman disappears, she leaves behind her coat and with it an enigmatic book containing a train ticket. Gregorius spontaneously decides to take an adventurous journey to Lisbon, where he will uncover a mystery, encounters love and rediscovers life itself.
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