This week, moviegoers will be choosing between the R-rated comedy "Get Hard" starring Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart, and the PG-rated DreamWorks Animation flick "Home". The most high-profile limited releases this week are the drama "Serena" starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper, and the Noah Baumbach dramedy "While We're Young" starring Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Amanda Seyfried and Adam Driver. More about each movie after the jump.
Synopses, details, critical reception, trailers, clips and more after the jump.
GET HARD
Official Synopsis
When millionaire hedge fund manager James (Will Ferrell) is nailed for fraud and bound for a stretch in San Quentin, the judge gives him 30 days to get his affairs in order. Desperate, he turns to Darnell (Kevin Hart) to prep him for a life behind bars. But despite James’ one-percenter assumptions, Darnell is a hard-working small business owner who has never received a parking ticket, let alone been to prison. Together, the two men do whatever it takes for James to “get hard” and, in the process, discover how wrong they were about a lot of things – including each other.
Film Details
- Starring: Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart, Alison Brie, Craig T. Nelson, T.I., Jay Pharoah, Gary Owen
- Director: Etan Cohen
- Genre: Comedy
- Running Time: 100 min.
- Rating: R for pervasive crude and sexual content and language, some graphic nudity, and drug material
Critical Reception
- Rottentomatoes: 32% (36 fresh, 78 rotten, score: 4.3/10).
- Metacritic: 33 out of 100 (2 positive, 18 mixed, 19 negative).
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HOME
Official Synopsis
When Oh, a loveable misfit from another planet, lands on Earth and finds himself on the run from his own people, he forms an unlikely friendship with an adventurous girl named Tip who is on a quest of her own. Through a series of comic adventures with Tip, Oh comes to understand that being different and making mistakes is all part of being human. And while he changes her planet and she changes his world, they discover the true meaning of the word HOME.
Film Details
- Starring: Jim Parsons, Rihanna, Steve Martin, Jennifer Lopez, Matt Jones
- Director: Tim Johnson
- Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
- Running Time: 94 min.
- Rating: PG for mild action and some rude humor
Critical Reception
- Rottentomatoes: 46% (38 fresh, 44 rotten, score: 5.3/10).
- Metacritic: 52 out of 100 (8 positive, 18 mixed, 2 negative).
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SERENA
Official Synopsis
The North Carolina mountains at the end of the 1920s - George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newly-weds, begin to build a timber empire. Serena soon proves herself to be equal to any man: overseeing loggers, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving a man's life in the wilderness. With power and influence now in their hands, the Pembertons refuse to let anyone stand in the way of their inflated love and ambitions. However, once Serena discovers George's hidden past and faces an unchangeable fate of her own, the Pemberton's passionate marriage begins to unravel leading toward a dramatic reckoning.
Film Details
- Starring: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Rhys Ifans, Toby Jones, Ana Ularu, Sean Harris
- Director: Susanne Bier
- Genre: Drama
- Running Time: 109 min.
- Rating: R for some violence and sexuality
Critical Reception
- Rottentomatoes: 20% (16 fresh, 63 rotten, score: 4.3/10).
- Metacritic: 34 out of 100 (3 positive, 12 mixed, 12 negative).
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WHILE WE'RE YOUNG
Official Synopsis
Noah Boaumbach's comedy While We're Young stars Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts as Josh and Cornelia, a childless New York married couple in their mid-forties. As their other friends all start having children, the couple gravitates toward a young hipster couple named Jamie (Adam Driver) and Darby (Amanda Seyfried). He's an aspiring documentary filmmaker, a vocation Josh already has. Soon the older couple begins enjoying the energy they feel haging out with the younger generation, but eventually Josh begins to suspect his new best friend might not be as straightforward and trustworthy as he thought. While We're Young screened at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.
Film Details
- Starring: Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver, Amanda Seyfried, Charles Grodin, Maria Dizzia, Matthew Maher
- Director: Noah Baumbach
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Running Time: 97 min.
- Rating: R for language
Critical Reception
- Rottentomatoes: 81% (44 fresh, 10 rotten, score: 7.1/10).
- Metacritic: 77 out of 100 (20 positive, 4 mixed, 0 negative).
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