Movies coming soon to the Sun Theatre
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BONNEVILLE
Rated <PG> Length 93 minutes
Coming August 28th to the Sun Theatre
Starring: Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Joan Allen, Christine Baranski, Victor Rasuk
Director: Christopher N Rowley
After her adventurer husband, Joe, suddenly dies while they are in Borneo, a lonely and scared Arvilla Holden (Jessica Lange) returns home to Pocatello, Idaho, where her husband's daughter from a previous marriage, the snooty Francine Holden Packard (Christine Baranski), is waiting to bring her father's body back to Santa Barbara, California, and bury him next to her mother. But Arvilla has already had him cremated, so Francine makes a deal with her: If Arvilla will bring her husband's ashes to Santa Barbara in time for the funeral service, she will allow Arvilla to keep the house. However, Arvilla had promised Joe before he died that she would scatter his ashes to the wind. So Arvilla and her two best friends, the loud and boisterous Margene Cunningham (Kathy Bates) and the prim and proper Carol Brimm (Joan Allen), set off in Joe's 1966 Pontiac Bonneville convertible, ostensibly to get to the airport to fly to Santa Barbara, but Arvilla has something else on her mind, leading to a funny and poignant road trip across the beautiful American West as the three mature women learn yet more about life, love, and death.
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IN BRUGES
Rated <TBA> Length 107 minutes
Coming August 28th to the Sun Theatre
STARRING: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Clémence Poésy, Jeremie Renier
DIRECTOR: Martin McDonagh
This darkly comic suspense thriller from Academy Award-winning writer/director Martin McDonagh tells the story of hit men Ray and Ken. After a botched job in London, the team is ordered by their boss Harry to cool their heels in the storybook city of Bruges, Belgium. Very much out of their comfort zones, the men find themselves drawn into increasingly dangerous entanglements with locals, tourists, and a film shoot. As their stay in Bruges gets weirder, they realize Harry may have other plans for them than a simple vacation.
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NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD
Rated <tba> Length tba minutes
Coming August 28th to the Sun Theatre
DIRECTOR: Mark Hartley
NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD is the wild, untold story of "OZPLOITATION" movies - a time when Australian cinema got its gear off and showed the world a full-frontal explosion of sex, violence, horror and foot-to-the-floor, full bore action! Jam packed full of outrageous anecdotes, lessons in maverick filmmaking and a genuine, infectious love of Australian movies, NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD is a fast moving journey through Aussie genre cinema of the 70s and early 80s - an unjustly forgotten cinematic era unashamedly packed full of boobs, pubes, tubes... and even a little kung fu.
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PERSEPOLIS
Rated <M> Length 95 minutes
Coming August 21st to the Sun Theatre
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Chiara Mastroianni
Director: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
Originally drafted as a graphic novel nd memoirs of Marjane, "Persepolis" translates beautifully to the big screen in this poignant story of a young girl coming-of-age in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. It is through the eyes of precocious and outspoken nine-year-old Marjane that we see a people's hopes dashed as fundamentalists take power — forcing the veil on women and imprisoning thousands. Clever and fearless, she outsmarts the "social guardians" and discovers punk, ABBA and Iron Maiden. Yet when her uncle is senselessly executed and as bombs fall around Tehran in the Iran/Iraq war the daily fear that permeates life in Iran is palpable.
As she gets older, Marjane's boldness causes her parents to worry over her continued safety. And so, at age fourteen, they make the difficult decision to send her to school in Austria. Vulnerable and alone in a strange land, she endures the typical ordeals of a teenager. In addition, Marjane has to combat being equated with the religious fundamentalism and extremism she fled her country to escape. Over time, she gains acceptance, and even experiences love, but after high school she finds herself alone and horribly homesick.
Though it means putting on the veil and living in a tyrannical society, Marjane decides to return to Iran to be close to her family. After a difficult period of adjustment, she enters art school and marries, all the while continuing to speak out against the hypocrisy she witnesses. At age 24, she realizes that while she is deeply Iranian, she cannot live in Iran. She then makes the heartbreaking decision to leave her homeland for France, optimistic about her future, shaped indelibly by her past.
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SALUTE
Rated <TBA> Length 120 minutes
Coming August 21st to the Sun Theatre
Starring: Peter Morman
Director: Matt Norman
The black power salute at the 1968 Mexico Olympics was an iconic moment in the US civil rights movement. What part in this did the white Australian who ran second, Peter Norman, play and what price did he pay for standing up for his beliefs?
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SON OF RAMBOW
Rated <PG> Length 96 minutes
Coming September 4th to the Sun Theatre
STARRING: Will Poulter, Bill Milner, Jules Sitruk, Charlie Thrift, Jessica Stevenson, Neil Dudgeon, Ed Westwick
DIRECTOR: Garth Jennings
Will Proudfoot, raised in isolation among The Brethren, a puritanical religious sect in which music and TV are strictly forbidden, encounters something beyond his wildest fantasies: a pirated copy of RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD. His virgin viewing of the iconic thriller blows his mind – and rapidly expanding imagination – wide open. Now, Will sets out to join forces with the seemingly diabolical school bully, Lee Carter, to make their own action epic, devising wildly creative, on-the-fly stunts, not to mention equally elaborate schemes for creating a movie of total commitment and non-stop thrills while hiding out from The Brethren.
But when school popularity finally descends on Will and Lee in the form of, oui, the super-cool French exchange student, Didier Revol, their remarkable new friendship and precious film are pushed, quite literally, to the breaking point . . .
Filmed in a creatively mad-cap, homemade style with a mostly amateur cast and a wry, comic-tinged nostalgia, creative visionaries Garth Jennings and Nick Goldsmith, AKA Hammer & Tongs (HITCHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY), manage to capture both the agony and the giddy ecstasy of a camcorder childhood with humor, poignancy and a rousing dose of cinematic panache.
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STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS
Rated <TBA> Length 90 minutes
Coming August 14th to the Sun Theatre
STARRING: Samuel L. Jackson
DIRECTOR: Dave Filoni
On the front lines of an intergalactic struggle between good and evil, fans young and old will join such favorite characters as Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Padmé Amidala, along with brand-new heroes like Anakin's padawan learner, Ahsoka. Sinister villains – led by Palpatine, Count Dooku and General Grievous – are poised to rule the galaxy. Stakes are high, and the fate of the "Star Wars" universe rests in the hands of the daring Jedi Knights. Their exploits lead to the action-packed battles and astonishing new revelations that fill "Star Wars: The Clone Wars." Hopefully our 3D is up and running!
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TAKEN
Rated <TBA> Length 93 minutes
Coming August 14th to the Sun Theatre
STARRING: Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace, Katie Cassidy, Goran Kostic, Anatole Taubman
DIRECTOR: Pierre Morel
WRITTEN & PRODUCED BY: Luc Besson
A former spy relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter who has been forced into the slave trade during a holiday in Paris. The desperation is intense as we someone accustomed to fighting for King and Country to suddenly have to fight for his family!
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THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR
Rated <TBA> Length TBA minutes
Coming September 11th to the Sun Theatre
STARRING: Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, Luke Ford, Michelle Yeoh, Maria Bello
DIRECTOR: Rob Cohen
Doomed by a double-crossing sorceress to spend eternity in suspended animation, China's ruthless Dragon Emperor and his 10,000 warriors have laid forgotten for eons, entombed in clay as a vast, silent terra cotta army. But when dashing adventurer Alex O'Connell is tricked into awakening the ruler from eternal slumber, the reckless young archaeologist must seek the help of the only people who know more than he does about taking down the undead: his parents.
As the monarch roars back to life, our heroes find his quest for world domination has only intensified over the millennia. Striding the Far East with unimaginable supernatural powers, the Emperor Mummy will rouse his legion as an unstoppable, otherworldly force...unless the O'Connells can stop him first.
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TROPIC THUNDER
Rated <tba> Length 107 minutes
Coming August 21st to the Sun Theatre
Starring: Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey, Brandon T. Jackson, Jay Baruchel
Director: Ben Stiller
The men star as a trio of actors whose filming experience in southeast Asia gets a little too real as they must become as tough as the characters they play to get out of a crisis.
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WALL-E
Rated <G> Length 98 minutes
Coming September 18th to the Sun Theatre
Starring: Fred Willard, Jeff Garlin, Ben Burtt, Sigourney Weaver, John Ratzenberger
Director: Andrew Stanton
What if mankind had to leave Earth, and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off? Academy Award®-winning writer-director Andrew Stanton (“Finding Nemo”) transport moviegoers to a galaxy not so very far away where
after hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, WALL•E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) discovers a new purpose in life (besides collecting knick-knacks) when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. EVE comes to realize that WALL•E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet’s future, and races back to space to report her findings to the humans (who have been eagerly awaiting word that it is safe to return home). Meanwhile, WALL•E chases EVE across the galaxy and sets into motion one of the most exciting and imaginative comedy adventures ever brought to the big screen.
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WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR FATHER
Rated <M> Length 92 minutes
Coming August 14th to the Sun Theatre
Starring: Colin Firth, Jim Broadbent, Juliet Stevenson, Gina McKee, Claire Skinner
Director: Anand Tucker
Based on Blake Morrison's autobiographical novel, and bouncing between the 1950s and the 1980s as Blake remembers all the good and the bad moments in his relationship with his dad as the man is dying of cancer. Arthur, who seems to charm everyone but his son, belittles and embarrasses the boy, and Blake's anger is understandable. But as Arthur begins to fade, an adult Blake struggles with his feelings for the man. There is much focus on the heartbreaking dynamic between father and son. Broadbent's Arthur says some cringe-inducing things to his son, not the least of which is his frequent use of the name "fathead" in reference to Blake. Between Arthur's cruelty and the pain of watching him die, WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR FATHER? doesn't always make for easy watching. But Broadbent's talent makes Arthur an ultimately sympathetic character; he is a deeply flawed man who truly loves his son, though he is rarely sure of how to show that feeling.
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BONNEVILLE
Rated <PG>
IN BRUGES
Rated <TBA>
NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD
Rated <tba>
PERSEPOLIS
Rated <M>
SALUTE
Rated <TBA>
SON OF RAMBOW
Rated <PG>
STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS
Rated <TBA>
TAKEN
Rated <TBA>
THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR
Rated <TBA>
TROPIC THUNDER
Rated <tba>
WALL-E
Rated <G>
WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR FATHER
Rated <M>
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