Movies opening this week in theaters:
- THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (Lionsgate / PG-13 / Wide)
- DELIVERY MAN (Walt Disney Pictures / PG-13 / Wide)
- PHILOMENA (The Weinstein Company / PG-13 / Limited)
Synopses, details, critical reception, trailers, clips and more after the jump.
THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE
Official Synopsis
THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE begins as Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a "Victor's Tour" of the districts. Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games (The Quarter Quell) - a competition that could change Panem forever.
Film Details
- Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Donald Sutherland, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Stanley Tucci, Sam Claflin, Jeffrey Wright, Amanda Plummer, Jena Malone, Toby Jones, Lenny Kravitz
- Director: Francis Lawrence
- Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure
- Running Time: 146 min.
- Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, some frightening images, thematic elements, a suggestive situation and language
Critical Reception
- Rottentomatoes: 89% (158 fresh, 20 rotten, score: 7.5/10).
- Metacritic: 75 out of 100 (42 positive, 4 mixed, 0 negative).
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DELIVERY MAN
Official Synopsis
From DreamWorks Pictures comes "Delivery Man", the story of affable underachiever David Wozniak, whose mundane life is turned upside down when he finds out that he fathered 533 children through sperm donations he made twenty years earlier. In debt to the mob, rejected by his pregnant girlfriend, things couldn't look worse for David when he is hit with a lawsuit from 142 of the 533 twenty-somethings who want to know the identity of the donor. As David struggles to decide whether or not he should reveal his true identity, he embarks on a journey that leads him to discover not only his true self but the father he could become as well.
Film Details
- Starring: Vince Vaughn, Chris Pratt, Cobie Smulders, Simon Delaney
- Director: Ken Scott
- Genre: Comedy
- Running Time: 103 min.
- Rating: PG-13 for thematic elements, sexual content, some drug material, brief violence and language
Critical Reception
- Rottentomatoes: 39% (31 fresh, 49 rotten, score: 4.9/10).
- Metacritic: 43 out of 100 (7 positive, 14 mixed, 9 negative).
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PHILOMENA
Official Synopsis
Based on the 2009 investigative book by BBC correspondent Martin Sixsmith, The Lost Child of Philomena Lee, PHILOMENA focuses on the efforts of Philomena Lee (Dench), mother to a boy conceived out of wedlock - something her Irish-Catholic community didn't have the highest opinion of - and given away for adoption in the United States. In following church doctrine, she was forced to sign a contract that wouldn't allow for any sort of inquiry into the son's whereabouts. After starting a family years later in England and, for the most part, moving on with her life, Lee meets Sixsmith (Coogan), a BBC reporter with whom she decides to discover her long-lost son.
Film Details
- Starring: Judi Dench, Steve Coogan, Mare Winningham, Sophie Kennedy Clark
- Director: Stephen Frears
- Genre: Drama
- Running Time: 98 min.
- Rating: PG-13 on appeal for some strong language, thematic elements and sexual references
Critical Reception
- Rottentomatoes: 91% (69 fresh, 7 rotten, score: 7.8/10).
- Metacritic: 75 out of 100 (26 positive, 3 mixed, 1 negative).
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