zondag 15 januari 2012

Movie Trailer Sunday (20)

This weeks trailers are about a single mother, two friends having a baby, summer camp, a rancher in Mexico and poet Hart Crane.

Girl in Progress
Description: Grace (Eva Mendes) is a single mom. She is too busy juggling work, bills, and the very married Dr. Hartford (Matthew Modine), to give her daughter, Ansiedad (Cierra Ramirez) the attention she desperately needs. When Ansiedad's English teacher, Ms. Armstrong (Patricia Arquette), introduces her students to classic coming-of-age stories, Ansiedad is inspired to skip adolescence and jump-start her life without mom. Ansiedad and Grace must learn that sometimes growing-up means acting your age
Director: Patricia Riggen
Starring: Eva Mendes, Matthew Modine, Patricia Arquette and Cierra Ramirez
Trailer: Trailer "Girl in Progress"
Comment: I love Eva Mendes and I'm glad to see her in a leading role again.

Friends with Kids
Description: We follow a close-knit circle of friends at that moment in life when children arrive and everything changes. The last two singles in the group observe the effect that kids have had on their friends' relationships and wonder if there's a better way. They decide to have a kid together - and date other people.
Director: Jennifer Westfeldt
Starring: Jennifer Westfeldt, Adam Scott, Kristen Wiig, John Hamm, Maya Rudolph, Chris O'Dowd, Megan Fox and Edward Burns
Trailer: Trailer "Friends with Kids"
Comment: Great cast, this looks like a lot of fun.

Moonrise Kingdom
Description: Two twelve-year-olds 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 more ways than anyone can handle.
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman, Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward
Trailer: Trailer "Moonrise Kingdom"

Casa de mi Padre
Description: Armando Alvarez (Will Ferrell) has lived and worked on his father's ranch in Mexico his entire life. As the ranch encounters financial difficulties, Armando's younger brother Raul (Diego Luna) shows up with his new fiancée, Sonia (Genesis Rodriguez). It seems that Raul's success as an international businessman means the ranch's troubles are over as he pledges to settle all debts his father has incurred. But when Armando falls for Sonia, and Raul's business dealings turn out to be less than legit, all hell breaks loose as they find themselves in a war with Mexico's most feared drug lord, the mighty Onza (Gael Garcia Bernal).
Director: Matt Piedmont
Starring: Will Ferrell, Diego Luno and Gael Garcia Bernal
Trailer: Trailer "Casa de mi Padre"

The Broken Tower
Description: A look at the dreams, unapologetic love of men , manic highs and depressive, death-haunted lows of early 20th century rebellious, self-destructive visionary poet Hart Crane (James Franco) from his early years as the son of a wealthy Cleveland businessman through his sojourns in New York, Cuba and Paris.
Director: James Franco
Starring: James Franco, Michael Shannon and Stacey Miller
Trailer: Trailer "The Broken Tower"
Comment: James stars in the movie, but also directed and wrote it. And they say men can't multitask....

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