Made for TV, airing September 24th in the US.
Filmed entirely in North Carolina.
Based on truths.
The story: Twenty-something Pamela is a popular girl who is into being popular, getting what she wants and rock 'n roll.
She has a boyfriend who sports rock n' roll hair and that is the way she likes it.
When her boyfriend decides to cut his locks and go all professional to make money, it doesn't sit well with Pamela.
But she deals with it.
The next thing you know Pamela and her beau are married, he's working in insurance and she is struggling to become a news reporter.
The problem is the news center doesn't want Pamela as a reporter so she takes a job with them, working at a high school with students.
This isn't what she wants, but once again she makes it work.
Now, Pamela gets popular once again and gets good vibes and attention from the students shes working with.
Especially a 15-year-old kid named Billy.
Billy happens to adore Miss Pamela and lets her know.
At first, she refuses Billy's advances but after a while, she gets the idea that she can manipulate him into changing her life for her.
Stars Helen Hunt, Hank Stratton, Ken Howard, Michael Learned, Chad Allen, Larry Drake, Riff Regan, Howard Hesseman, Kai Lennox, Chris Jaymes, Richard K. Olsen, Robert Priester, J. Michael Hunter, Marilyn Carter, Sean Bridgers
Directed by Joyce Chopra
Not Rated
DRAMA
Released August 23 , 2013 in the US.
Filmed entirely in Missouri.
The story : Aubrey and Paul Davison have decided to spend their anniversary at their home away from home.
They have also invited all of their grown children to celebrate at the house with them.
The couple are the first to get to the house.
When they get to the front door , they find that it is unlocked.
Hmmmm that's odd.
Aubrey is a nervous wreck about the whole thing but Paul has this covered.
After checking the house , all seems clear.
The rest of the family start arriving with their significant others.
But little does everyone know , there were a couple of murders next door and yea that just can't be good.
Stars Kate Lyn Sheil , Larry Fessenden , Barbara Crampton , Rob Moran , Sharni Vinson , AJ Bowen , Joe Swanberg , Margaret Laney , Amy Seimetz , Ti West , Nicholas Tucci , Wendy Glenn , Simon Barrett , Lane Hughes , L.C. Holt , Calvin Reeder
Directed by Adam Wingard
Rated R
HORROR/MYSTERY/THRILLER
Released January 14th in the US.
Filmed in California.
The story : After Dr. Armitage gives a lecture on the occult and its days gone past at the local library , a very curious man named Wilbur arrives.
Unfortunately Wilbur missed the ever so fascinating lecture , but that's okay cause Wilbur is more fascinated with the Docs's rare Necronomicon.
Ah yes , the Necronomicon.
It seems it has been in Wilbur's family for quite some generations. Well , one of them anyways.
The other now belongs to the doctor and well , it's priceless. So no , you cannot check it out of the library.
Wilbur strikes up a haunting friendship with one of the doctors assistants and that proves to be good.
So good that Wilbur will get his hands right on that Necronomicon and do with it what it is intended to be used for.
Stars Dean Stockwell , Ed Begley , Sandra Dee , Talia Shire , Sam Jaffe , Donna Baccala , Lloyd Bochner , Michael Fox , Jason Wingreen , Toby Russ , Barboura Morris , Beach Dickerson , Michael Haynes , Jack Pierce
Directed by Daniel Haller
Rated R
HORROR/MYSTERY
Released April 4 , 2014 in the US.
Filmed entirely in Canada.
Based on truths.
The story : It's 1973 and Frankie is a young woman , living in Los Angeles working as a go-go dancer.
Frankie realizes she does things and then doesn't remember doing them.
The people close to Frankie know she can be violent at times and very brilliant at others.
First Frankie beats up her best guy.
Then she loses her job because of it.
Then she finds herself in jail.
The only thing that will keep Frankie from spending a lot of time in jail is getting psychiatric help , so she takes what she can get.
The doctor who works with her knows there is some really deep rooted trauma from Frankie's past which is causing her to have violent outbreaks and multiple personalities.
So her doctor makes it his soul mission to make sure Frankie can get out of her past and live healthy in her present.
Stars Vanessa Morgan , Halle Berry , Melanie Papalia , Kira Clavell , Joey Bothwell , Stellan Skarsgard , Phylicia Rashad , Chandra Wilson , Alex Diakun , Joanne Baron , Rosalyn Coleman , Matt Frewer , Brian Markinson , James Kirk , Adrian Holmes , Katharine Isabelle , Emily Tennant , Scott Lyster , Megan Charpentier , Michayla McKenzie , Kennedy Goodkey , Andrew Francis
Directed by Geoffrey Sax
Rated R
BIOGRAPHY/DRAMA
Released March 14th in the US.
Filming location(s) unknown.
The story : Elizabeth gets a job that she has been doing a study on for some time.
She gets to spend all her time at home while logging into a webcam chat site called "The Den".
The mission is to talk at as many people around the world via webcam as she possibly can.
Almost immediately after getting the job things get really weird.
It seems someone is watching her and looking to play some really brutal jokes on her and her friends as well.
Stars Melanie Papalia , David Schlachtenhaufen , Saidah Arrika Ekulona , Matt Riedy , Adam Shapiro , Victoria Hanlin , Matt Lasky , Kirk Bovill , Tristian Chase , Lily Holleman , Chris Kelley , Katija Pevec , Tiago Roberts , Ben Macdonald , Jeff Rubino
Directed by Zachary Donohue
Rated R
MYSTERY/THRILLER/HORROR
Released January 12th in the US.
Filmed in Louisiana and New York.
The story : Sister Helen Prejean has lived most of her life as a nun.
She always knew the lifestyle was for her and has always taken some comfort in helping others.
Sister Helen receives a letter from a young man on death row just asking for her conversation in his dark time.
She starts up a friendship with the inmate even though she takes much flack from the people who believe he is getting what he deserves.
Sister Helen isn't quite sure if the inmate is in fact guilty of the crime he is serving time for but that is not her job.
She stays with him , making sure he is as comfortable as he possibly can be all while he continues to tell her piece by piece his life story and how he got to where he is now.
Stars Eva Amurri Martino , Helen Hester , Steve Carlisle , Susan Sarandon , Margo Martindale , Gil Robbins , Sean Penn , Robert Prosky , R. Lee Ermey , Raymond J. Barry , Celia Weston , Scott Wilson , Lois Smith , Roberta Maxwell , Barton Heyman , Steve Boles , Nesbitt Blaisdell , Larry Pine , Clancy Brown , Kevin Cooney , Ray Aranha , Adele Robbins , Peter Sarsgaard , Michael Cullen
Directed by Tim Robbins
Rated R
DRAMA
Released September 20th in the US.
Filming location(s) unknown.
The story : In 2009 , third trimester abortion provider Doctor Tiller of Kansas was shot for a third time and killed during a service at his local church.
As third trimester abortions are much more controversial than the typical abortion , there are only a handful of doctors who provide them.
Coincidentally enough , those doctors all worked with Doctor Tiller.
The physicians Doctor Tiller left behind have made it their lives work to go on courageously practicing the way they believe they should , as third trimester abortions are only legal in certain states.
Basically if they stop practice , the third trimester abortion provider could be no more.
Here we learn about what assists the doctors to proceed with their profession. How they see what they are doing for the people they provide the service to and what it all , including working with Doctor Tiller has meant to them and continues to mean.
All with the constant threats of the pro-life extremists breathing down their necks.
Directed by Martha Shane & Lana Wilson
Not Rated
DOCUMENTARY
"Women are the worlds experts on their own lives."
Released April 2nd in the US.
Filmed in Germany.
Based on truths.
The story : Christiane is a young girl , going on 14 in fact.
She lives a boring life with her mother and her sister.
Christiane wants to go to the new disco in town and gets a classmate who goes there all the time to take her.
At the disco , Christiane meets a bunch of kids her girlfriend has been running with. They all do some sort of drugs.
Back at home , Christiane finds that her little sister is going to live with their dad and her mom's only concern is with entertaining her new boyfriend.
Neither realize Christiane is even around.
So Christiane wastes more and more time at the disco and in the company of people she met there who are now using "H".
She falls for a nice kid who gradually gets addicted to "H".
Because of wanting to be just like him , Christiane starts her dance with "H" as well.
But the couple finds that the drug is ruining their lives and their friends lives.
Stars Natja Brunckhorst , Christiane Lechle , Daniela Jaeger , Ellen Esser , Thomas Haustein , Jens Kuphal , Uwe Diderich , Jan Georg Effler , Andreas Fuhrmann , David Bowie , Lutz Hemmerling , Bernhard Janson , Rainer Woelk , Lothar Chamski , Peggy Bussieck , Eberhard Auriga
Directed by Uli Edel
Rated R
German with English subtitles
BIOGRAPHY/DRAMA
Released July 26th in the US.
Filmed entirely in Massachusetts.
The story : Duncan is a 14-year-old who spends much time alone.
His newly separated mother has decided to take Duncan and herself along with her new boyfriend and his daughter to spend some of the summer at her boyfriends' summer home.
But Duncan wants to go stay with his dad.
But Duncan has to go along with his mom.
After days of Duncan's moms' boyfriend giving him the singling-out treatment , Duncan loses it.
He takes off to the local water park where he makes some pretty good , needed friends.
Stars Liam James , Steve Carell , Toni Collette , Anna Sophia Robb , Sam Rockwell , Maya Rudolph , Allison Janney , Liam James , Rob Corddry , Amanda Peet , Zoe Levin , River Alexander , Nat Faxon , Jim Rash
Directed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash
Rated PG13
COMEDY/DRAMA
Released March 8th in the US.
Filmed in California and Michigan.
The story : While trying to escape the hands of a jealous man , carnival side-show magician known as Oz makes a great escape.
Or so he thinks.
He jumps into a hot air balloon waiting for him but soon finds himself inside a twister.
When he finally opens his eyes and is glad to still have his life about him , he finds himself in a wild , colorful place.
After crash landing , Oz meets Theodora - a witch in the land of Oz.
She explains many things to Oz , one of which is that the place he has landed is called Oz.
The most important thing Theodora tells him is that she believes he is the wizard who the great people of Oz have been expecting.
He is to free them all of the evil cluthes of the lands baddest witch.
Stars James Franco , Michelle Williams , Joey King , Ted Raimi , Tim Holmes , Toni Wynne , Rob Crites , William Dick , Gene Jones , John Lord Booth III , Shannon Murray , Ralph Lister , John Manfredi , Robert Stromberg , Mila Kunis , Rachel Weisz , Bill Cobbs , Zach Braff , Tony Cox , Abigail Spencer , Stephen R. Hart
Directed by Sam Raimi
Rated PG
FANTASY
Released September 30th in the US.
Filming location(s) unknown.
The story : As a young girl , "Tanny" knew nothing more than ballet dancing.
She didn't have the childhood some children her age had but she was a happy girl none the less.
As she grew older , she grew more and more into her dancing abilities.
Tanny grew into a star when she became choreographer George Balanchine's muse.
Every show he introduced to the world had been written for Tanny and she danced them all.
Soon Tanny became Mrs. Balanchine and the two were madly in-love. Traveling the world , putting on shows and meeting many people.
But in time , without much warning , a new infectious disease had been striking down many healthy young people.
Tanny became just another of it's victims.
Stars Jacques d'Amboise , Jerome Robbins , George Balanchine , Tanaquil Le Clerq , Arthur Mitchell , Barbara Horgan , Patricia McBride , (voice) Michael Stuhlbarg , (voice) Marianne Bower
Directed by (& story written) Nancy Buirski
Not Rated
DOCUMENTARY
Released October 27th in the US.
Filmed in Canada ,
The story : Tina is a Canadian girl who lives with her mother and sister , has a famous Hockey-player father who she never sees and plays hockey like it's the only thing in life worth living for.
Somehow , Tina gets a modeling gig. And that gig gives Tina instant model stardom.
Tina travels the world here and there , meeting many who think they already know her. Doing TV interviews and news interviews in which the interviewer gives Tina no time to talk for herself.
Tina is involved with a famous photographer. Then she goes on to have an affair with an restauranteur. She leaves him for yet another man in the public spotlight but none of the relationships prove anymore than abusive.
Yea , a bit boring for my taste. Not as funny as I think I should have found this. If there is intent for this to be more than I got from this , I didn't get it. Oh well.
Stars Jessica Paré , Victoria Snow , Jessica Mackenzie , Macha Grenon , Charles Berling , Camilla Rutherford , Paul Reynolds , Maggie Steed , Patrick Huard , Gregory Calpakis , Dan Aykroyd , Sophie Lorain , Patrick Poivre d'Arvor , Robert Lepage , Nicu Branzea , Frank Langella , Richard Greenblatt
Directed by Denys Arcand
Rated R
DRAMA
Released June 8 , 2012 in the US.
Filmed entirely in New York.
The story : Out of nowhere , Diane's husband , the father of her two teenage kids - asks her for a divorce.
She knew things weren't going well between them but she never seen this coming.
So Diane decides to take the kids and go visit her mom , who she hasn't been in 20 years.
Her mom is a hippie from days gone past and that doesn't exactly sit well with Diane.
But maybe in Diane's time with her mom she can learn to just relax and love the people in her life for who they are.
Stars Catherine Keener , Kyle MacLachlan , Elizabeth Olsen , Nat Wolff , Jane Fonda , Jeffrey Dean Morgan , Marissa O'Donnell , Joseph Dunn , Ann Osmond , Teri Gibson , Robert Bowen Jr., Wayne Pyle , Alison Ball , Joyce Van Patten
Directed by Bruce Beresford
Rated R
COMEDY/DRAMA
"Mom. Could you please not say 'cock block'."
Released December 12th in the Us.
Filmed in California , New York and Paris.
The story : Harry Sanborn is quite the bachelor.
At 63 , he is known for only dating women much younger than him.
The current girl he is seeing brings him away with her for a weekend at her mothers beach house.
It seems Harry has a little too much fun and finds himself in the hospital after a heart attack.
While recovering , Harry ends up staying at the beach house with the woman he is datings' mother.
The two don't get along at first but once they get to know each other , they can't get the thought of each other off their mind.
Stars Jack Nicholson , Amanda Peet , Diane Keaton , Frances McDormand , Keanu Reeves , Paul Michael Glaser , Jon Favreau , Rachel Ticotin , Ara Anton , Lorna Scott , KaDee Strickland , T.J. Thyne , Nicki Norris , Nichole Hiltz , Tayrene Mugridge
Directed by Nancy Meyers
Rated PG13
COMEDY/DRAMA
"Yea but come on. How many words can you rhyme with bitch?"
Released March 28th in the US.
Filmed in Germany and Polland.
The story : A writer is staying at the Grand Budapest Hotel. He has taken the time to see that everyone staying there , even the help - is very quiet and alone.
While talking with the front desk man , the writer is told that the only man sitting in the lobby other than them is in fact the the owner of the hotel.
The writer takes it upon himself to meet and get to know the man , widely known as Mr. Moustafa.
That is when Mr. Moustafa tells the writer the most fantastic tale of how he has become the once popular hotels' loyal owner.
Stars F. Murray Abraham , Jude Law , Jason Schwartzman , Ralph Fiennes , F. Murray Abraham , Mathieu Amalric , Willem Dafoe , Adrien Brody , Jeff Goldblum , Harvey Keitel , Tony Revolori , Larry Pine , Owen Wilson , Tilda Swinton , Léa Seydoux , Saoirse Ronan , Edward Norton , Bill Murray
Directed by Wes Anderson
Rated R
COMEDY/DRAMA
