Movies Released August 24, 2018

Friday, August 24

A.X.L. PG

AXL is the story of a teenage boy whose life is forever altered by a chance encounter with cutting edge military technology. 18 year old Miles is searching for a way out of his small California town. But when he stumbles upon A.X.L., an escaped prototype of an advanced robot, he finds himself in an unlikely friendship, and the target of a massive manhunt that puts him and everyone he cares about in danger.
Becky G., Oliver Daly, Alex Neustaedter, Alex MacNicoll
Adventure Sci-Fi Family
91 mins

The Happytime Murders R

The puppet stars of an iconic TV show The Happytime Gang are some of the biggest celebrities around. But off camera, the family-friendly cast leads the kinds of lives that would make a tabloid writer blush. When the stars of The Happytime Gang begin to be mysteriously murdered, two mismatched detectives – one a type-A, take-no-prisoners human with a secret, and the other a crass, hard-drinking puppet with a connection to one of the victims – must put aside their huge differences to stop the killings and catch the culprit, all the while trying to resist the temptation to murder each other.
Jason Lust, Maya Rudolph, Todd Berger, Jon Hoeber, Melissa McCarthy, Elizabeth Banks, Brian Henson, Lisa Henson
Comedy Thriller
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133 mins

Papillon R

A criminal is unjustly convicted of murder in 1930s France and condemned to life in a South American prison. A counterfeiter agrees to finance the criminal's prison escapes.
Aaron Guzikowski, Roland Møller, Tommy Flanagan, Ram Bergman, Riza Aziz, Rami Malek, Roland Moller, Eve Hewson
Drama Crime
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84 mins

Arizona NR

Cassie (Rosemarie DeWitt) is a real estate agent and single mom struggling to keep it all together during the housing crisis of 2009. Her problems go from bad to worse when disgruntled client Sonny (Danny McBride) violently confronts Cassie’s boss and then kidnaps Cassie – making one outrageously bad, and bloody, decision after another.
Kaitlin Olson, Danny McBride, Luke Wilson, Rosemarie DeWitt, Jonathan Watson, Luke Del Tredici, Elizabeth Gillies
Action Comedy

Searching PG-13

Follows a desperate father who is looking for his missing teenage daughter. After a local investigation is unsuccessful, he decides to search the one place no one has looked yet and the one place we all keep our secrets today.
Timur Bekmambetov, John Cho, Aneesh Chaganty, Sev Ohanian, Debra Messing, Joseph Lee, Michelle La
Thriller

Support the Girls

Follows a restaurant manager who doesn't love her job but loves her employees like family. This leads to a group of women banding together to forge a family in the most unlikely of places.
Lea DeLaria, Regina Hall, Dylan Gelula, Andrew Bujalski, Sam Slater, Haley Lu Richardson, Brooklyn Decker, Houston King
Comedy
108 mins

The Bookshop PG

Follows a widow (Mortimer) who decides to set up a bookstore in the quiet English coastal town of Hardborough in the 1950s. There she must face gossip and intimidation from some of the inhabitants, but gains an unexpected ally (Nighy).
Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Isabel Coixet, Patricia Clarkson
Drama

Dead Envy

Aging Rock artist David Tangier's sense of identity is all but destroyed as he works cutting hair to provide a comfortable life for himself and his wife. His sound and age bind him to the Rock of the 2000's, where his band Katatonic Spin once ruled the scene. David cannot tolerate that his entire existence has fallen prey to the persona of "the has been."

By taking one last long shot at maintaining his integrity, David sets out to organize the follow-up album that he never had the chance to make. When Javy Bates, a mysterious young musical talent shows up for a job at David's salon, this Rocker thinks he has found a solution to his alienation. Initially guarded, Javy soon opens up... as he has an agenda of his own.
Samantha Smart, Harley Di Nardo, Adam Reeser, Carla Wynn, Joey Medina
Thriller Musical

The After Party

When an aspiring rapper goes viral for all the wrong reasons, he thinks his career is over. But when his best friend gets them into a wild NYC after party, he gets one more chance to make the impossible happen.
Jamie Patricof, Wiz Khalifa, Trevor Engelson, Russell Simmons, Heather Parry, Teyana Taylor, French Montana, Shelley Hennig
Comedy Coming-of-Age

Rodents Of Unusual Size

Hard headed Louisiana fisherman Thomas Gonzales doesn't know what will hit him next. After decades of hurricanes and oil spills he faces a new threat - hordes of monstrous 20 pound swamp rats. Known as “nutria”, these invasive South American rodents breed faster than the roving squads of hunters can control them. And with their orange teeth and voracious appetite they are eating up the coastal wetlands that protects Thomas and his town of Delacroix Island from hurricanes. But the people who have lived here for generations are not the type of folks who will give up without a fight. Thomas and a pack of lively bounty hunters are hellbent on saving Louisiana before it dissolves beneath their feet. It is man vs. rodent. May the best mammal win.
Chris Metzler, Wendell Pierce, Jeff Springer, Quinn Costello
Documentary Nature
110 mins

The Wild Boys NR

Tells the tale of five adolescent boys (all played by actresses) enamored by the arts, but drawn to crime and transgression. After a brutal crime committed by the group and aided by Trevor – a deity of chaos they can’t control – they’re punished to board a boat with a captain hell-bent on taming their ferocious appetites. After arriving on a lush island with dangers and pleasures abound the boys start to transform in both mind and body.
Diane Rouxel, Mathilde Warnier, Bertrand Mandico, Pauline Lorillard, Vimala Pons, Anaël Snoek, Sam Louwyck, Elina Löwensohn
Drama Fantasy
108 mins

Beautifully Broken PG-13

A refugee’s escape, a prisoner’s promise, and a daughter’s painful secret converge in this inspiring true story of hope. As three fathers fight to save their families, their lives become intertwined in an unlikely journey across the globe, where they learn the healing power of forgiveness and reconciliation.
Eric Roberts, Emily Hahn, Eric Welch, Brad Allen, Chuck Howard, Martin Michael, Scott William Winters, Benjamin Onyango
Drama True Story Faith
93 mins

Winning Formula

While backpacking around America, two broke girls devise a crafty scheme to earn money – Turtle racing! But when they become successful, they unwittingly attract the attention of the mob and become tangled in a dark mystery. Now they must come up with the winning formula to pay their debt, get free and find a little romance!
Tyler Farr, Claudia Pickering, Prudence Vindin, Don Woods, Robert L. Greene, Roslyn Gentle, Angela Gulner
Comedy

Friday, August 24