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Movie Title: The Adventures of OSCAR PILL
Director: Wes Ball
Composer: Alexandre Desplat
Genre:
Heroic Fantasy
Date: March 17 in 3D
Cast: Abraham Attah (Oscar Pill). Naomi Harris (Oscar's mother), Yara Shahidi (Violette Pill),  Jamie Lee Curtis (Mrs Withers), Kalama Epstein (Ayden Spencer), Peter Capaldi (Bones), Russell Crowe (M. Brave)
Theater Count: 3 778
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sequences of fantasy violence and frightening images

Runtime: 132 minutes
Budget: $115 million

Aspect Ratio: 1 85: 1

Summary:

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The film begins in prison, an empty cell. Stone walls. Suddenly a guard arrives, he points a lamp at the cell and notices that it is empty. He starts screaming in Russian in his walkie-talkie. Suddenly it collapses, the window of the corridor explodes. The prison is located in a snowy region of Russia, the snow is blackened, then a black glow rises to the sky. The titles appears:"The Adventures of Oscar Pill"


A high school class, a group of students is gathered around two fighting people. Oscar Pill (Abraham Attah) a 14/15 year old boy protects a student on the ground (Kalama Epstein) from the blows of an older teenager (Braeden Lemasters). We then hear the reprimands of an adult. The next scene is set in the principal's office, who warns Pill that he has still used violence, which is inexplicable even though Moss is a boy. Pill leaves school, he is caught up by an eccentric girl who looks like him. This is Violet (Yara Shahidi). They return home together, they live in a small street of colourful houses, one of the least beautiful ones in the neighborhood, its garden is fallow. Oscar goes up to his room, and his mother joins him, she worries about the bruises he has, and his wound to the arch. Oscar reads a comic book, and avoids questions. But he ends up confessing that he fought a guy who took it out on someone else. She's telling him it has to stop, it's gonna be a problem. But she confesses to him that she is proud of him and reminds him of his father in those moments. 

 

A silver-haired woman (Jamie Lee Curtis) walks by a road, a policeman calls out to her "Madam you should go home! It's not safe in this weather. She's still walking, look at her watch, 3:20. It finally arrives near an imposing grid "Cumides Circle", behind it stands a large and beautiful manor house. All the windows were closed. She finally enters the building, welcomed by  "Bones" thebutler. He leads her into a room with a large fireplace and a simple birdcage in the middle of the room "it must be a bad joke" says the lady. "I know, ma' am, for your alergy..." But Sir insisted that everything should take place there "... She looks at the fire of the fireplace, sighs. She took out of her path her necklace, a gilded circular object with a large M as a pendant. The object lights up, she looks at the cage, suddenly she's out of the room. Oscar sits on his bed, looks at family photos, and then lingers on the picture of him and his father (Will Smith). He touches his forehead where he was bleeding a few minutes earlier, there is no trace. Suddenly he hears his mother's voice raised below,"It's out of the question Mrs Withers! "..." Oscar quietly goes to the door to listen to the conversation, his mother is with a woman of about 60 years old. "You have no idea what I went through 15 years ago." "Of course if the woman answers, we were upset ourselves." Both women talk about Oscar's father. And the lady says that difficult times are to come, if not she would not dare to ask her. Celia finally puts her at the door, Mrs. Withers, but she still hands her a card. In front of his mother who starts crying, Oscar's pouting. His mother sobbed and then went to the cellar door. Discreetly Oscar goes downstairs and listens at the door. He hears his mother whispering, he always has the album in his hand. He discreetly descends, his mother is at the bottom of the cellar, he sees her but hides. She's holding a strange belt, which is starting to get restless. Celia is amazed "Vitali? ", Oscar steps back but gets spotted. Celia looks at Oscar circumspect not knowing what to tell him she kindly tells him to come up and not try to come in the cellar. Cut mounting of the days that follow each other and the routine. The following scene takes place at the end of high school, it rains, Moss tries to annoy Oscar by insulting him with "fearful". Finally Oscar resists, and goes away, a woman speaks behind her back "You didn't like what he said, did you? "..." He turns around, she's the woman from the other day (Mrs Withers / JLCurtis)

 

"You're right, Oscar. He is wrong, if you are Vitali's son, I am sure you are not a frightened man. She tells him that her father was some kind of doctor, but Oscar doesn't believe her. But he ends up staying, she tells him that he must have already seen that he was a special person, capable of healing (he touches his forehead). "You're like your father, Oscar. "..." "HOW DO YOU DARE? "..." Celia (Oscar's mother) arrives behind Mrs Withers. The woman changes her face but remains very calm, and convinces Celia to go and talk a little further away. Celia and Mrs. Withers discuss the danger hanging over them, and the need for the Svedicus to meet. Oscar approaches and wonders what the medecine is. Celia finally cracks, and asks Ms. Withers what she proposes,"two months at Cumides Circles where Oscar will be able to learn her role as a Medicus". Ms. Withers explains that she thinks Oscar inherited her father's role as a Medicus, people with the ability to travel within the human body. The lady says she will come for the answer the next Saturday and then leaves. Oscar seems upset. On the way back Oscar repulses his mother and does not speak to her. The classroom, the tension is palpable, finally the bell rings, the students rejoice. On the way back Violette and Oscar are accompanied by two brothers who ask them what they plan to do with their summer "We should stay at Babylon Heights...", the two brothers begin to think of a lot of ideas that they will be able to realize this summer. Oscar's in his room, worried. Finally her mother arrives, she tells him that although she was reluctant because of the last events she had with the Medici, Vitali was proud to be one of them, and that maybe she had to leave Oscar to Cumides Circle. She then puts a suitcase on Oscar, opens it, there is the belt that Oscar had seen earlier, a medallion and a cape. Oscar was playing alone with the medallion when the doorbell rang, Oscar opened the front door, Mrs. Withers smiled at him.

 

They are now both in a car, Mrs. Withers discusses Cumides Circles, its importance in the Medici world and that this is the perfect place for him to begin his training. Mrs Withers waved to stop She and Oscar exited the car and found themselves in front of Cumides Circle's big gate. She puts her medallion on the grid but this one refuses to open. She then handed her medallion to Oscar "we both have to do it", the gate finally opened. Mrs. Withers then tells Oscar that the portal only opens to the Medicus and that he is not mistaken. Once inside, Oscar meets Bones (Peter Capaldi), the butler, a tall and slender man. Mrs. Withers has to leave and Bones is accompanying Oscar to his room for the next two months. The manor house is an old manor house, the walls are wooded and imposing. Oscar is impressed by this gigantism. He discovers the garden where some trees move, the manor house with dozens of rooms each more impressive than the other. Carpets knock him down if he has the bad idea of wanting to run inside.

. He discovers the strict rules of Cumides Circle. Finally Bones informs him that he was going to meet the Grand Master. Oscar sits down with this charismatic and slightly cold (Russell Crowe) man. He explains that he is the leader of the Medici Order. An ancient order that gathers all of them able to travel through the human body. Faced with a recently reborn threat, that of the Black Prince and his faithful Pathologus, the Medicus need to recruit new members, hence his arrival here. He makes him visit parts accessible only with the medallion. He discovers that some deceased Medicus live through their portraits (Medicus can die if they die outside a body transferred their consciousness into an object). Finally, he comes into contact with the bust of the Great Uncle of M. Brave. He gave her a Medici medallion, which seems to confirm that Mrs Withers was right. He puts it around his neck. Brave tells him that his training will take place here on weekdays, he will return home on the weekend with a cold voice and tells him that he has to go to work. Oscar continues his discovery of the manor, discovers that some books seem to contain the spirit of those who wrote them, and finally Mrs. Withers comes to meet him and tells him that if his first "Physical Intrusion" they must speak, she presents him the room of the Medici Council (a large room with a table and six different seats in the image of their owner).

She explains that if she will help him to prepare for his first trip, the discovery of the body he will have to make it alone, that unlike the doctor, the body that the Medicus can discover is learned in practice. Oscar says he's looking forward to his first trip, but Mrs. Withers informs him that he'll have to learn some basics. The days go by: Oscar reads books, some books are able to answer him by writing. Oscars and Mrs. Withers are around the grand council table. She makes him discover a map on the table, the five universes that make up the human body: each universe needs to visit the previous one in order to be visited by a Médicus apprentice. There are Hepatolia, kingdom of the transport of the human body, The Two Kingdoms (roms of breath and heart), Embryo (royalty of procreation), Genetys, technological kingdom of information, and Cerebrra, kingdom of thought and brain. Each kingdom holds a trophy necessary for a medicus to continue his training.

Oscar's face shines in front of all this news. Cut. Oscar's face is pouting, we drop him off in front of his house, the driver wishes him a good weekend. He spends time with his neighbors and sister, but seems to be waiting for Sunday night.

 

Finally Mrs. Withers precedes Oscar in a room. Oscar finds himself face to face with a cage and a bird. Mrs. Withers explains that the animals are used by beginners because they are not resistant. She explains the procedure to him and then "enters" the canary. Oscar is stunned, and decides it's time to move on to practice, armed with his pendant and his Medicus cape. He runs into the cage and drops it and finds himself with his nose on the floor as well. Finally at the second try, and more concentrated, he returns in turn to the canary. He finds himself sucked into a tornado and finally gets up in a room between four white walls that seem to be getting closer. Very quickly strange agents besiege it, they have heads close to that of the birds. They're starting to ask him questions, and fortunately Mrs. Withers is coming. She takes it under her cape, which allows her to return to the Cumides Circle room. Oscar couldn't visualize Hepatolia and landed next door. Mrs. Withers reassures him that it's normal for a premiere. Oscar insists on trying again immediately. Finally, Cumides Circle' s' Dob' dog is chosen as the new guinea pig. This time Oscar and Mrs. Withers landed together in a sort of control room that swarmed with workers with strange faces, between canine and indescribable. Mrs. Withers teaches Oscar that as a Medicus he is genetically capable of understanding the inner languages and therefore the inhabitants of Hepatolia. Mrs. Withers says it's enough for today. They're going back to Cumides Circle. Mrs. Withers congratulates him and resumes learning for his first Intrusion into a human being, alone.

 

Finally the time has come, Bones, the butler will be the host of his first human Intrusion. Once inside Oscar must learn to explore alone, the inhabitants of Bones seem to be used to seeing young Medicus. He discovers that the control room is at the centre of Hepatolia's food sorting, but that it is only the entrance to the world. It is made clear to him that his first trophy attached to his belt must be filled with the jewel of the mountain. On leaving the building, which is on the side of a gigantic cliff, Oscar discovers a huge lake, the Saline Lake, at the end of which stands a gigantic mountain that dominates all Hepatolia. Oscar borrowed a boat from the lake, and it quickly degenerated, he found himself falling from a gigantic waterfall and while he was about to crash, he was ejected from the vehicle and landed in an impressive hub where dozens of ships crossed and transported various goods and pieces of what appeared to be food.

Oscar meets Valentine, a hepatolian, she is a young girl of her age who looks like a human being, except for a yellowish waxy skin. The little girl calls herself a Globulz pilot, the ships used on the motorway transported the goods the body needs. She explains that the highway goes to the centre of the mountain and convinces Oscar to take him. The ship is leaving at full speed for the mountain. Valentine seems to be a bad conductor and struggling to avoid the other vessels. Her conduct is violent and she's hitting some walls. Once arrived, Oscar goes out with Valentine who wants to help him, he enters a building with many corridors and Valentine makes him understand that it is better not to be spotted here. So they infiltrate and end up meeting another young Hepatolian, Lawrence, who is more rounded than Valentine and explains that he hangs out here to get books and information. He knows that the nectar Oscar is looking for is deeper in the mountain. All three of them go on a quest and finally take some kind of elevator, the walls weep a greenish substance, Lawrence indicates that it is nectar. The elevator derails, and the three are thrown out, finally they cling to a wall, but Oscar ends up falling, towards a pond of a greenish substance, just before entering it he manages to leave Bones' body. It is projected at the end of the Cumides Circle room and takes the wall.

 

Bones twists himself in pain, and alerted by the noise Mrs. Withers comes to see what's going on. Oscar explains the situation and realizes that Lawrence and Valentine have also come back with him by clinging to his cape. Mr. Brave finally accepts that Valentine and Lawrence stay at CC as long as they don't sneak out. Life at CC becomes more enjoyable for Oscar, who has fun with his new friends. As he reads books to prepare a new attempt, a book begins to tell him about his father. He wanted to learn more, but the book and another one asked him to relive a new intrusion in exchange for information about his father. Oscar, Valentine and Lawrence discreetly leaves Cumides Circle with two pounds under his arm and finally finds a sleeping dog in a park near the mansion.

 

They're breaking in, but the intrusion is quickly turning into a disaster. As Oscar, pushed by the books, tried to approach nectar again, the books were destroyed by the nectar. Oscar barely falls again. And after a difficult struggle he finally manages to fill his vial, which lights up in contact with the nectar. He won his first trophy. But when Oscar leaves the body, he can't do it. They then decide to go back up, but they meet another human, aggressive. A chase is set up, Oscar understands that it is a Pathologus, a servant of the Black Prince. Around him, Hepatolia seems to be dying. To escape him, Lawrence, Valentine, and Oscar climbed into a ship and left the mountain, clinging to it but eventually fell and died. At that moment the three friends can finally leave the body.

 

At the exit of the body, Oscar finds himself face to face with Mr. Brave and Mrs. Withers who look down on him with a serious look. He explains to them, and they argue with him for putting themselves in danger, and endangering all the Medicus. Brave says they no longer have a choice and faced with the return of the Pathologus it will still be useful. He allows him to see the truth about his father so that it is no longer a reason to take reckless risks. In a new play for him, Brave presents a grimoire to Oscar who writes his question "What happened to my father? ".  A scene appears on the two pages of the book, a shadow that one guesses to be Oscar's father fights against a Pathologus, a flash of lightning. Mrs Withers and Brave says,"It's awesome... Why would Pill let them go? You don't think Pill... Pill's... one of them? "Oscar gets angry about it. Accuse Brave of being a liar and then run off running down the street. Mrs. Withers is trying to catch him, but Brave's got her.
It's morning, Valentine goes to see Mrs. Withers and asks her what will happen to them. Withers replied that they still have their place at Cumides Circles. When Valentine asks him, she tells him that she doesn't know if Oscar will come back, but she hopes so, because the future is going to be dark and the Medicus will need him.    
Oscar is in his room, looking at a picture of him and his father, tears are running down his face. He seems to be full of anger, and suddenly his necklace of Médicus on his desk lights up. His eyes are changing, he looks determined.

 

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Movie Title: Trump's America : Season 1
Director: Michael Moore
Composer: Jeff Gibbs

Genre: Documentary
Date: October 27 (Limited) November 8 (Wide)
Cast: Michael Moore (Narrator)
Theater Count: 10 (Limited) 990 (Wide)

MPAA Rating: R-Rated for
language, violent images, drug use

Runtime: 90 minutes
Budget: $10 million

Summary:

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One year after Donald Trump's election, and thirteen months after the release of his documentary "Michael Moore in TrumpLand", Michael Moore decided to take stock of the controversial U. S. president's term as president.

 

Hillary's Failure:
The first part focuses on a testimony part, Michael Moore goes to the states that voted for Donal Trump and receives testimonies from some of the people who voted for him. Some are still proud of it, others still otpimist, and others already regret it. In the course of these interviews, Michael Moore met with astonishing supporters, especially young Latin Americans who wanted to avoid Clinton more than Trump. This part is quite satirical and shows point by point how Hillary failed to convince the voters.

 

Trump's America:
During the second part of the film, which begins on Investiture Day. Moore will create an edifying portrait of all the scandals that have already tainted Trump's presidency while showing the paradox with the support he still enjoys. This party is therefore interested in scandals, political errors, inconsistencies of Trump, and the superficiality of his politics. While explaining why it doesn't taint his popularity with his base.

 

The film seems to have the message that we should not lose hope in politics, and start rebuilding an opposition that will have to be strong for the next four years. Moore deals with this subject with all the irony he knows how to show.

 

 

 

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Movie Title: Love at first Sight
Director: Andrew Haigh
Composer: Rodrigo y Gabriela & Katrina Schiller
Genre: Romance
Date: November 3 (Limited) November 17 (Wide)
Cast: David Mazouz (Lip), Gage Munroe (James), Jackie Evancho (Emma), CJ Adams (Bryan), Mackenzie Foy (Mindy), Rachel Bilson (Lip’s mom)
Theater Count: 4 (Limited) 2 280 (Wide)
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for brief strong language, suggestive content, bloody injury images

Runtime: 98 minutes
Budget: $7.4 million

Summary: Remake of the 2014 Brazilian movie « The Way he Looks »

Spoiler

The film begins with a gradient of colors, first clear, then turns red. You can hear the sounds of a fight "Oh, you didn't see that one coming, did you? ", the red is getting darker and darker, you can hear a person spitting blood.    

 

Love at first sight

 

A sixteen-year-old young man (David Mazouz) gets up in his room, it is nicely decorated, and if he doesn't seem to look at what he is doing, he chooses his things and turns off his alarm clock without the slightest hitch. He's looking away. He realizes everything by trial and error and never looks at his movements, he leaves his room, goes down the stairs. Arriving in his kitchen, his mother (Rachel Bilson) has already prepared breakfast for him. "Mom, I'm capable of doing it all by myself you know","I know darling", she replies by taking her head and caressing her wound to the brow bone. "Emma's late," she said as she looked at the clock.     
The young man walks beside a teenager of his own age (Jackie Evancho),"Lip, your mother is not stupid, she understood what happened, and she's going to be even more sticky with you". The two teenagers are on their way to high school. Emma tells of gossip from high school, a girl was seen kissing a boy already in a couple. Lip "I've never kissed anyone." Emma stops "Really? ". Lip explains that he had had the opportunity in 4th grade with Mindy but that he had not dared and since then he had not had the opportunity. Emma says she could kiss him if he really complex about it. He wants his first kiss to have a special meaning, but he thinks that no one wants to kiss him today.

 

In class, Bryan (CJ Adams) laughs at Lip's typewriter that makes a lot of noise when he writes. The teacher then asks him to settle behind Lip which he refuses because he doesn't want to "have to help the blind person permanently", the teacher disapproves but does nothing. Finally the teacher introduces a new pupil, James (Gage Munroe). The student passes by Lip who lifts his head and James sets up behind him. Emma leans to Lip's ear "He's hot, you have no idea! ". At lunchtime at the self, Emma wants to go to lunch with Lip with the new one. But he's immediately approached by a girl. "Mindy (Mackenzie Foy)... What a bitch! ". In the evening, Lip and Emma come home, Emma holds Lip by the arm. The new guy approaches them, introduces himself. When Emma asks him why he arrives in the middle of February, he is evasive. Lip says he feels like he knows him, his smell sounds familiar. James is surprised, but quickly shows himself interested in the perception of the world by Lip, finally he leaves them a little before Lip's house. When he returned home, his mother was worried about his sunburn. Her mother says she blames herself for not thinking about it, but he reassures her.    
The next day, Emma tells her in class that she has a training session and will not be able to walk him home at night. Lip insists on using his stick to get home. Soon they were rushed by the group in Bryan. Lip finally falls down, his hands are skinned, he's obviously pissed off. Go home and in the face of his mother's excessive anxiety, he gets angry and tells her that he is tired of her being behind him.     

 

Lip and Emma are in a room (Emma's room), Lip discusses his argument with his mother, and says he can't take it anymore to have such a protective mother. Lip says that he has looked at agencies to study in Europe, he says that in the Netherlands their infrastructures are perfect for the blind and the country looks very beautiful. Emma is reluctant, but offers to visit the agency if he wants to.     
In the agency, we present various destinations to Lip, but we tell him that in order to find out more, he will need the parents' agreement. Lip isn't ready to discuss it with his mother yet.      
On their way out, they meet James who offers to come and work at home if they wish. Emma tells them that they can work together but it would be more convenient for her if they worked from home. All three of them are teaching their lessons and having fun. At the moment of leaving, James offers Lip to help him go home to avoid Emma going out again. This one looks annoyed but accepts. And Lip comes home with James, they're laughing on the road.     
In class, a few days later, the teacher gives a job to be done in pairs of the same sex. James is offering Lip to sit with him. And they're both starting to work alone. They both eat together at the high school self, and Emma seems exasperated to be sidelined. James and Lip are working together on their project. And James asks Lip about his perception of the world, how he does it to watch videos or movies. Lip replies that there are audio descriptions in addition to dialogue, and in the cinema he uses his imagination. James is also fascinated by the fact that Lip is interested in something as visual as astronomy, Lip replies that what fascinates him is that these are things that nobody really sees. James offers to go see a movie at Lip, which they do. They go to see an action film and James often leans over to Lip's ear to describe it, which causes some people around him to exasperate. While they're still working, Lip tries to teach James braille, which he finds impossible. Lip replies that what's impossible is him riding a bike.

 

Lip returns to the agency with James, the agent is very excited and shows him pictures of a perfect Dutch agency for blind and American students. James and Lip go home alone, Emma catches up with them and gets angry at Lip for replacing him and excluding him. They offer her to keep coming back with her but she gets angry and finally decides to leave.    
Lip finally talks to her mother about her desire to study abroad, she doesn't understand, she starts to get angry. He explains that she has always been a wonderful mother, but that he needed independence. Later, she comes to see him in his room, and says that the idea doesn't make her happy but she can understand it, and that at first they can imagine more independence here in California. She suggested that he go to the party to which he had been invited.
Mindy welcomes Lip home,"I' m... really glad you came, Lip. Really, really! ". Emma refuses to say hello. James is drunk, Emma's drunk, too. Lip isn't. He plays the bottle game, and as she points out a girl's class Lip. Bryan catches Mindy's dog. Before he makes his shameful joke, Emma comes along and slaps him in the face. She grabs Lip by the hand and they go away. Lip tells him that he could have managed on his own, he also blames him for his behaviour. She's pissed off, then decides to leave. Lip's on the street alone. He sits on the floor, he has tears in his eyes. "Lip?! "James calls him. He's getting up. James is offering to take him home. Lip explodes, he says he's tired of everyone trying to control him, and we won't let him do anything, not even kiss anyone. Suddenly James throws himself on Lip, takes him by the neck and kisses him. Lip in a first time gives him back his kiss.

 

Lip is walking down a different street in the evening. He's being mocked by a bunch of young people. Cut. The group of youngsters now hit Lip on the ground, one of the youngsters is in retreat: James. He's just watching Lip get beaten down. We see the red spots seen during the film's intro. The youth group begins to leave. James turns around, takes his scarf, and cleans Lip's face, finally he leaves the scarf next to "What are you doing? ", James gets up and walks away.   

 

Lip and Emma get on a school bus, James sits next to Mindy just behind them. Bryan's barking past Lip. James looks at Lip, you can see the sadness in his eyes.     
The field trip is a green class, the students camp, set up their tent. Lip is working with Emma. Lip goes a little off the grid, and he's joined by James. James is uncomfortable and then says,"You know... I was wondering how long it would take you to figure that out...". Lip frowning frown. "I've done a lot of bullshit, not just funny stuff, but that night... I think it's the worst thing I've ever done in my life. I've never had a good company. that doesn't excuse anything. But you really changed me. When I came into the classroom, which I saw you, I had a shock, really. I dropped out of high school because that night I realized what a shit I would become if I kept playing the big guy. You're a great guy, with you I've never had to pretend to be someone else... and..."Lip smiles. "I'm really happy... and I want to have you as a friend, Lip, really. "Lip seems to be thinking.

 

The class is at the pool, everyone swims, except Lip who is on a deckchair. James comes out of the water and tells Lip to put on some sunscreen, he helps him to spread out what makes other people laugh. Lip wants to wait until everyone is gone, finally when he agrees to go for a shower without taking off the shirt. James is watching him, staring at his chest. Finally to remove the cream, Lip removes his shirt, and quickly James seems to have a problem and prefers to get dressed, he seems to hide his erection.     


In the evening, there is a party between the students in the different tents. Lip drinks with Emma and the others... Once out of the way, he makes sure no one is around and says he thinks he's in love with James. Emma looks at him stunned, repeats the fact, then goes away. Looking for her, Lip finds Mindy and James in the pool, and he agrees to join them.    


Lip is in bed, his mother gives him medication, and tells him that it wasn't very responsible to bathe in the middle of the night. That she can't imagine him living alone in Europe with a behavior like that.   

 

Lip and James come out of the pool, they dry out, then lie down in their underpants, facing the sky. James describes all the stars he can see to him.    
While he's sick, Emma comes to visit Lip at home. "So you like Gabriel... I can understand." She apologizes for the bad reaction, but tells him that she didn't really understand at first. Lip smiled and said he's probably going out with Mindy anyway.   

 
Lip visits James who is surprised to see him. They're going to his room. Lip ends up asking him if he's going out with Mindy, and he says no. But while he was talking to Emma, Mindy tried to kiss her. He pushed him away, then she told him about his exes, and that he felt sorry for him and offered him the pool. He tells her he's not going out with Mindy because he loves someone else. Someone he even kissed, and it was fantastic but unfortunately he probably ruined all his chances of months later. Lip gets up, James stands in front of him, Lip takes his face, and kisses him, tenderly and for a long time. Lip touches James' face, caresses him. Then they hug each other.      
Lip and James leave school, James is held by Lip's arm. Bryan's group laughs at him, suddenly James spreads Lip's arm. Then he takes Lip's hand, they start walking again. 

 

Lady Gaga original song "Love is Love" starts.    
You see someone pedaling, the camera goes up, and shows Lip on the handlebars of a bicycle. The camera moves away and reveals that James is behind and the guide. He gets further and further away from the camera, James spreads his arms apart, Lip exults!

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Minnie's Treasure Hunt 

 

GenreFamily / Adventure 

Studio: Fine Films Inc. 

Cast: A bunch of young kids 

Director: David Bowers 

Composer: Edward Shearmur 

Budget: $10m 

Release Date: June 23rd

Theater Count: 2,522 

MPAA Rating: G 

Running Time: 82 min (1 hour, 22 minutes) 

 

Minnie's out of school for the rest of the summer but her family can't afford a vacation to the Bahamas, so she's stuck at home bored out of her mind while all her friends are out of town. One day while playing soccer by herself she accidentally stumbles upon an old treasure map and decides to go on a quest to find the treasure. But without any of her friends around to help her she coerces some of her bullies to help her in exchange for part of the treasure. They refuse to help her so they steal the treasure map instead and go to find the treasure on their own while Minnie follows them. While looking for the treasure she also stumbles upon the house of a boy she has a crush on and he agrees to help her out. The pair finds a treasure chest in a mine before the bullies do but when the bullies arrive they threaten Minnie to hand over the chest or else they'll bury them in the cave. However the cave starts to collapse on them all but Minnie saves everyone just in time. The bullies apologize to Minnie for being mean to her and they all open the chest, only to find a letter saying the whole thing was a prank from the 19th-century. They go home disappointed but Minnie has earned new friends and the attention of the boy she likes so she's happy in the end. 

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The first post has been updated.

 

@BastienGiot Your movies Dangerous BeautyJe t'Aime, and I'll Be Home for Christmas were not added to the first post because they are fillers that aren't yet completed. Technically you were not supposed to post those here yet. Make a new post or send me a private message when you complete them and I'll add them, but keep in mind your directors, cast and release dates are not reserved until you finish the films.

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Phone

Release Date: August 4th

Studio: Red Crescent Pictures

Genre: Supernatural Horror

Director: Levan Gabriadze

Theater Count: 2,777

Shooting Format: Digital 3K (Red Scarlet-W)

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Image Release Format: 2K DCP

Audio Release Formats: 5.1, 7.1

Production Budget: $6 million

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sequences of terror, violence, and language

Running Time: 97 minutes

Major Cast: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jessica Biel, Tom Sizemore

 

Plot Summary:

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A remake of the 2002 Korean film of the same name.

 

Jill (Jennifer Love Hewitt) is an investigative journalist who's just reported a sex scandal involving a state senator, Michael Deansworth (Tom Sizemore). Dishonored and awaiting trial, senator Deansworth finds Jill's cell phone number and begins to send her threatening texts and images, and eventually starts stalking her. To help her avoid him, Jill's friend Heather (Jessica Biel), a well-off woman with a rich husband, allows Jill to move into her vacation home.

 

Jill moves into the house and has her phone number changed, but a glitch in the system makes only one new phone number available to her. She accepts it anyway, and at first all seems well – the threatening messages stop, and senator Deansworth is unaware of her relocation. To thank Heather, Jill takes her, her husband, and their seven-year-old daughter Isabelle out to dinner at a nice restaurant. Jill goes to use the restroom and leaves her phone at the table. It rings, but the caller is unknown. Impulsive little Isabelle answers the phone, and after a few seconds of silence, lets out a blood-curdling shriek before passing out. Heather picks up the phone but the caller has already hung up.

 

Beginning the next day, Isabelle starts acting very strangely. She loses interest in her toys, acts cold and hostile to Heather, begins cursing and having violent outbursts, and most disturbingly, develops an obvious attraction to her father. Meanwhile, Jill starts getting strange phone calls – not from Deansworth, but from an unknown number. Some are silent, some sound like a crying infant, while others are the sound of someone playing “Moonlight Sonata” on a piano. She also begins experiencing ghostly phenomena around the house.

 

Jill investigates the history of the phone number she was given and finds out the last two people with that number died under strange circumstances. The person who had the number before them was a high school girl named Jenna, who vanished mysteriously years earlier. While she's out and about investigating, Deansworth finds her and stalks her down a dark alley. He violently assaults her, but her phone rings during the attack. Deansworth steals the phone so she won't be able to call for help and tries to hang up, but the phone keeps ringing no matter what. He finally answers it, and whatever he hears on the other end triggers a deadly seizure, his eyes, ears and nose leaking blood as he collapses, dead. Terrified, Jill flees the scene and leaves her phone behind. However, upon returning to the vacation home, she finds it waiting for her on her desk.

 

The next morning, Isabelle goes completely berserk and attacks Heather with a knife, trying to kill her. She fails but manages to escape the house, running away. Meanwhile, Jill tracks down some of Jenna's friends from high school to learn more about her and what may have happened. She learns Jenna was an avid piano player who, her friends knew, was having an affair with an older man. She had a date with him the night she disappeared. Her friends reported this to the police, but they were unable to find out who the man was or where she was supposed to go that night, as her phone disappeared with her.

 

When Jill returns to the vacation home, she discovers it has been broken into. Inside she finds Isabelle, sitting at a piano and playing “Moonlight Sonata.” Isabelle speaks cryptically and menacingly to Jill, asking her if she's figured out the truth yet. Jill realizes that the ghost of Jenna is possessing Isabelle, and calls Heather to warn her. The possessed Isabelle reveals the man she was dating was Heather's husband. On the day she disappeared, Heather had found out about the affair and stolen her husband's phone, texting Jenna a fake invitation to come over for a date at the vacation home so she could confront her. The confrontation quickly became heated, with Jenna revealing she was pregnant with the child of Heather's husband, and claiming he was going to leave Heather because she was infertile and could never give him a family. The argument devolved into a fight, and Heather pushed Jenna down a flight of stairs, killing her and her unborn child.

 

Heather arrives at the vacation home looking for Isabelle, who becomes enraged upon seeing her. The possessed girl climbs to the stop of the same staircase Jenna died on and shrieks at Heather, claiming she was never meant to have a child, and that since Heather killed her baby, she will now kill Heather's. Before anyone can stop her, Isabelle hurls herself down the stairs and breaks her neck, dying. Jill blames Heather for killing Jenna and covering it up, revealing during the confrontation that she was the surrogate mother who gave birth to Isabelle. Heather goes crazy and claims she can't let Jill live now that she knows what she's done. She grabs a knife and begins to stalk Jill around the house in slasher-movie fashion.

 

While Jill hides from Heather under the bed, the muffled sound of a phone ringing starts up somewhere in the room. The sound leads Heather into the bedroom, where she searches frantically for the phone and Jill before eventually realizing the sound is coming from inside one of the walls. She hacks away at the wall with her knife, revealing it to be a flimsy, amateur bit of painted drywall. Behind the wall, Jenna's rotted body, wrapped in a sheet of plastic, is revealed. Jenna's cell phone is in wrapped in the sheet with her, ringing endlessly. Heather takes out the phone and smashes it on the floor, stabbing through it with the knife.

 

Jill tries to escape from the room while Heather is distracted, but is spotted. The door to the bedroom slams shut on its own, trapping the two woman inside. Heather corners Jill and stabs her repeatedly. Just as it seems she's doomed, Jill glimpses past Heather to the hole in the wall and sees that Jenna's body is missing. Suddenly, Jenna's reanimated corpse grabs Heather from behind, and at her touch, Heather begins to rot away herself until she is reduced to a lifeless husk. Jenna's spirit leaves her body, and the corpse collapses to the ground in front of Jill.

 

Cut to a slow-motion ending montage – crime tape surrounds the vacation home as Jill, barely alive, is carted out into an ambulance. Next come the two rotted corpses, and the knife and Jenna's phone in evidence bags. Heather's husband watches in shock as Isabelle's lifeless body is brought ought of the house. As he doubles over in grief at seeing his daughter dead, Jenna's ghost is seen standing behind him with a sinister smile.

 

 

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Sailing Champion

 

Genre: Sports / Comedy

Studio: Fine Films Inc.

Cast: Owen Wilson, Kate Hudson, Christopher McDonald

Director: Paul Weitz

Budget: $30m

Release Date: June 30th

Theater Count: 3,127

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Running Time: 100 minutes (1 hour, 40 minutes)

 

Needing money to save the orphanage he grew up in, Donny (Wilson) teams up with his ex-wife Kathryn (Hudson) to win a sailing contest where the price is $100,000. However, Donny's rival Burt (McDonald) shows up and signs up for the contest to get money for more botox on his face. Donny faces another problem though, he doesn't know how to sail, but Kathryn teaches him. Along the way they rediscover old passions for one another and discovers that Burt's plan is more sinister than they've imagined.

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Second Wind

 

Studio: Fine Films Inc.

Genre: Adventure/Comedy

Director: Peter Billingsley

Producer: Doe John

Budget: $40m

Release Date: March 10th

Theater Count: 3,254

Rating: PG-13

Running Time: 101 minutes (1 hour, 41 minutes)

Cast: Ed Helms, Drew Barrymore, Joe Manganiello

 

Plot:  Newly-weds Owen (Helms) and Lisa (Barrymore) decide to go sailing on the open seas. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean however they encounter an attractive stowaway named Brad (Manganiello) gains an interest in Lisa. While Lisa tells her rather measly husband that it's nothing to worry about, Owen grows envious, and tries to ruin things for Brad. After some hijinks Brad and Owen grow agitated with each other but don't notice a storm coming that sends all three into the water. They wash up on a remote island and are forced to use whatever they can find to build a raft to get them back to civilization. Meanwhile, the feud between Owen and Brad continues. Eventually Lisa loses her patience with the two men and tells them that she's leaving the island without them if they can't make amends. Owen and Brad begrudgingly make an armistice and work together to build a raft to get home safe. They realize that they can make use of one another's skills (Brad's strength and Owen’s intelligence) to work together, and once the raft is completed they all head out. They get caught up in another storm and Owen is thrown off the raft, but Brad saves him from drowning. Now that Owen and Brad have made peace with one another, the three continue to drift out on the open seas awaiting rescue, although Owen acknowledges that that might take awhile.

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Studio: Cookie Pictures

Genre: Musical/Drama

Director: Joe Wright

Producers: Sebastian Peters, Don Hahn and Joe Roth

Composer: Alan Menken

Original Songs: "Find the Gypsy Girl" & "Angel's Touch"

Running Time: 124 minutes (2 hours, 4 minutes)

Budget: $130 million

Rating: PG-13

Release Date: December 15th

Theater Count: 3,817

Based on: Disney's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1996) and "Notre-Dame de Paris" by Victor Hugo (1831)

 

Cast:

Eddie Redmayne as Quasimodo

Jessica Szohr as Esmeralda

Charles Dance as Judge Claude Frollo

Josh Dallas as Captain Phoebus

Jack Black as Hugo (voice and performance capture)

Charles Kimbrough as Victor (voice and performance capture)

Shirley MacLaine as Laverne (voice and performance capture)

Ken Stott as The Archdeacon

Sacha Baron Cohen as Clopin

David Thewlis as Louis XI

 

Plot:

 

 

The film begins with Clopin performing an act to an audience of small children in the streets of Paris. He brings up a small hand-puppet to be a supporting actor, as he sings the praises for the bells ringing from the Notre Dame cathedral. He points out that the bells do not ring by themselves, which causes the puppet to ask "They don't?!". Clopin hushes the doll, and promises to tell the tale of the bellringer to both the puppet and the children in the audience, leading into the opening song and main motif of the film "The Bells of Notre Dame".

"It is a tale, a tale a of a man, and a monster..."

Dark was the night when our tale was begun on the docks near Notre Dame. Four frightened gypsies, one of them being a woman with her baby, are being guided to what they think is a safe passage to the "palace", only to find a trap had been laid out for them. They gaze up in fear and see a figure riding on a dark horse, a figure whose clutches are iron as much as the bells of Notre Dame, Judge Claude Frollo. Frollo, who believes himself to be a righteous man and the one that will purge the ills of Paris, orders the gypsies to be arrested, and their presumably stolen goods be taken from them. Hearing this the woman flees from the scene, only to be pursued by Frollo. The chase leads to the doorsteps of Notre Dame, where the woman bangs on the door begging for sanctuary. Frollo catches up to her and we're treated to a new verse where the woman tries to stand defiant against Frollo.

[Singing voices are in italics, speaking voices are in regular text]

Woman: I've declared sanctuary up on these steps, the steps of Notre Dame
Frollo: Unless a priest is here to hear it, it will not matter!
Woman: You can not hurt me, not without guilt, on the steps of Notre Dame
Frollo: Hand me the goods or I'll cut you down!
Woman: You can claim to be a man of right justice, you can claim to be God's own command, but you can never take my son away from my arms on these steps, the very steps of Notre Dame

Not believing the claim that the woman is carrying a baby, Frollo grabs the child and kicks the woman to the curb, causing her to hit her head on the stairs. Frollo proceeds to inspect his confiscated goods, only to find that it really is a baby, and a horrific-looking one at that. He sees a well a few feet away from him and decides he has to do the world a service by getting rid of the child. The Archdeacon comes out to find the woman lying dead in the snow and Frollo preparing to drop the baby into the well. Frollo tells him that he's sending the baby back to hell where it belongs, but the Archdeacon calls him out for his crime, and tells him that while he may lie to his minions, the people of Paris and most importantly himself, he can never escape the eyes of Notre Dame. Frollo looks up to see the statues attached to the church walls looking down on him, and for one time in his life he fears for his soul. He asks the Archdeacon what he must do to atone, and the Archdeacon tells him to raise the child as if it was his own. While he is appalled at the demand, Frollo complies. He requests however that the child be kept in the bell tower where no one else can see him, and the Archdeacon accepts. Taking another glance at the baby, Frollo says to himself that the child might prove to be of use to him one day. Cut to Clopin finishing the story by telling the children that Frollo named the child Quasimodo, a name that means half-formed, and asks the question "what makes a monster and what makes a man?". We transition to Quasimodo, all grown up, ringing the morning bells as the song concludes.

 
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

 
Quasimodo (Redmayne in very heavy makeup) walks out to the balcony of one of the towers of Notre Dame and looks over the city. He then turns to one of the gargoyle statues sitting on the railing, specifically the one with a bird nest placed in its mouth. He asks the chick residing in the nest if this is the day its ready to fly. The little birdie is a bit uncertain at first, but Quasi encourages it by saying that if there's any he day he would grow wings and fly, it would be this one, the Festival of Fools. He lets go of the bird and it manages to stay afloat to both's delight. The two see a flock of doves fly past the bell tower and the chick decides to join them, leaving Quasi behind. Hugo comes to life and spits out the remains of the nest, remarking that he though the bird would never leave. Victor also comes to life and retorts at Hugo that he shouldn't sleep with his mouth open. They see Quasi longingly staring at the town square below, and are reminded that today is the big festival, and display their excitement to watch the proceedings. Quasi doesn't seem as worked up as he used to, saying that all he do is "watch" the festival. Victor and Hugo wonder what's wrong with Quasi as he trots back to his living chamber, and Laverne (with a flock of birds pursuing her to her annoyance) appears to explain to the two that Quasi's spent his whole life experiencing the festivities as an observer, not as a participant. We cut to Quasi walking over to table where he's built a model of Paris, including little dolls representing the city's inhabitants. Laverne comes in and tries to plant the idea in Quasimodo's head that maybe he should go to the festival. She's soon joined by Victor and Hugo and they all three try to convince Quasi to attend. Quasi responds that he can't, not with his master Frollo forbidding him from ever leaving the bell tower. Hugo suggests he should sneak out, maybe wearing a disguise, and return before Frollo even knows he's gone. Fired up from their encouragement, Quasi gets himself cleaned up and tries to make his way downstairs, only to run right into Frollo, who's brought him a lunch basket. Frollo asks where Quasi's going, and who he was talking to. Quasi responds that he was only talking to his friends the gargoyles, and that he's staying right here in the bell tower. Frollo shakes his head, and reminds him that his "friends" are only statues made out of stone.

Frollo: Can stone talk? [knocks on Hugo]
Quasimodo: ...No. It can't.
Frollo: That's right. You're a smart lad. Now, lunch!

Quasi sets the table and Frollo asks him to review the alphabet. Once Quasi gets to the letter F he accidentally spurts out "festival", causing Frollo to spit his drink. He puts two and two together and forbids Quasi from going to the festival. Quasi points out that Frollo goes every year, and Frollo says that as a public official he must attend, but he does not enjoy a moment of it. He describes a scene of thieves and cutpurses, those he consider the dregs of humankind, all mixed together in a flurry of stupor and sinful behavior. Frollo proceeds to tells Quasi a story of his mother abandoning him on the steps of Notre Dame (which as we saw in the opening, is a lie) and that any other man than Frollo would have thrown him in the well (which we know he tried to do), the message being that he finds it insulting that the child he raised as his own would try to defy his wishes. Quasi begs for forgiveness upon hearing Frollo's words. This leads into "Out There" where Frollo tells Quasi that the world is cruel and wicked, and only Frollo could keep him safe, provided Quasi stays in the bell tower. After Frollo leaves, Quasi takes a second look at the festival taking place below, and expresses his wishes to live out there, if only for one day. He climbs around the roof of the church, providing us stunning views of Notre Dame and the city around it.

We transition to another part of Paris, where Captain Phoebus, a war veteran, gets lost trying to locate the Palace of Justice. He tries to ask a few passerby where he can find the palace, but they mostly ignore him. He remarks to his horse Achilles that Paris has changed a lot in the time he's been gone, both in the layout and the people. He comes across a pair of gypsies performing on a street corner, and decides to give them some coins after a mother stops her child from doing the same (saying they'll steal them blind). One of the gypsies, Esmeralda, immediately catches Phoebus' attention. A couple of guards arrive and Esmeralda and her accompanies (including her goat Djali) try to evade them, but she drops her coins and is stopped by the guards. The guards accuse her of stealing the money, which Esmeralda denies, saying she earned them fair and square. The guards grab her and she fights back with the help of Djali. Esmeralda runs away and Pheobus stops the guards by pushing Achilles onto their path. They try to arrest Pheobus thinking he's a simple peasant, but Phoebus draws out his sword along with his badge, proving his identity. With both of the guards now under his command, Phoebus asks them to ignore the gypsies and take him to the Palace of Justice. As the guards lead him there, Phoebus gives the remaining coins to a beggar on the street, which turns out to be Esmeralda and Djali hiding under a cloak. Cut to the Palace of Justice where Phoebus walks in on a whipping taking place under Frollo's orders. Frollo greets Pheobus with praise for his service record, and expects nothing but the best from him, as the last captain was a bit of a disappointment. His words are accompanied by the sounds of the previous captain being whipped off-screen. Frollo and Phoebus walk outside and Frollo tells him that under Louis XI's rule the gypsy infestation in Paris has only gotten worse, and that with Phoebus' help they can squash them and prevent the citizens from being misled by their trickery. Phoebus' asks why they brought him back from the war to catch fortune-tellers, but Frollo tells them that the gypsies' ways inflame the people's lowest instincts, and that the real war is not with foreign nations, but on the streets of Paris. He tells of an underground lair where the gypsies are said to reside, a place called the "Court of Miracles". Phoebus dismisses it as an urban legend, but Frollo notes that for all his efforts to stop the gypsies one by one, they somehow thrive still, and the existence of this "court" is the only explanation. He demonstrates by removing a brick from the handrail, exposing a plethora of bugs underneath. He squashes them with the same brick and tells Phoebus that exposing the "court" will allow them to do the same with the gypsies. Phoebus understands his point, even if he finds it a bit brash. Frollo tells him it's time to attend the Festival of Fools, and he wants Phoebus to keep order during the proceedings.

 

The Festival of Fools begins and the movie transitions into the song "Topsy Turvy". Quasi, disguised, climbs his way down the side of the cathedral as Clopin and his parade enter the town square. We also see Frollo and Captain Phoebus taking their positions, Frollo given a seat where he can view the festivities in fool, and Phoebus leading the city guards. Quasi tries to keep his distance so he doesn't get seen, but is lured by the pretty colors and rapturous sights that he soon finds himself in the middle of it. Quasi stumbles right into Esmeralda's dressing tent and bumps right into Esmeralda herself (while nearly trampling on Djali). Quasi tries to hide his face from Esmeralda, but Esmeralda is fooled into thinking that Quasi's ugly face is just a mask, and she complements him on the very convincing design. This gives Quasi more confidence to walk around in public as everybody is going to believe he's just wearing a mask anyway. He does so and the people around him all complement him on the mask, one guy even asking where he can get one as good as his. Quasi stops when he sees Frollo sitting in the VIP chair, and thus makes his way to other side of the crowd so Frollo doesn't see him. Clopin walks up on stage and introduces Esmeralda through cleverly staged smoke effects and Esmeralda starts performing an erotic dance much to the men's delight and (most) of the women's dislike. Since this is PG-13 the dance is a bit more risque than in the animated version. Frollo remains unimpressed.

 

Frollo: Look at that disgusting display.

Phoebus: [big grin] Yes, sir!

 

Esmeralda dances her way to the VIP seats and does a seductive dance right in front of a disgusted Frollo. He orders the guards to remove her but she jumps away before they can do anything. Frollo then notices that she left her scarf and he throws it to the ground. After Esmeralda finishes her dance Clopin returns and announces that it's time to crown this year's King of Fools and encourages people with the ugliest masks to come up so they can find who can make the ugliest face underneath. The crowd calls on Quasi to go up on stage but knowing that Frollo will see him he tries to back away. Esmeralda grabs him and drags him on stage despite his protestations. Clopin removes the masks of the other contestants and the crowd are unimpressed by their lame attempts at making gruesome faces. Esmeralda tries to remove Quasi's "mask" only to realize that it is his face and she and the rest of the crowd gasp in horror. Quasi sees Frollo's disapproving face across the crowd and he tries to run away only to find himself surrounded. With nowhere to go he shields his face and curls into a fetal position. Clopin tells the crowd not to panic as, after all, they were looking for the ugliest face in Paris and here he is right in front of them. Clopin snatches the crown from last year's winner and declares Quasi the winner of the competition, much to the crowd's delight. Quasi is paraded around the square while he makes awkward wavering to Frollo who looks on in furious disapproval. Quasi is led up on a spinning platform as the crowd cheers him on. After the cheers die down a patron comes forward and claims that someone's stolen his wallet. More people find goods from them have been taken and they start assuming that Quasi may have had something to do with it. Clopin tries to calm down the erupting crowd but ducks an incoming tomato which hits a startled Quasi in the face. More and more people start calling Quasi a thief as they strap him onto the spinning platform and spin him around while they laugh and throw fruit and vegetables at him. A now frightened Quasi calls out to Frollo for help and Phoebus asks Frollo if they should intervene, but Frollo tells him to wait for a moment, for a "lesson" needs to be learned here. Esmeralda shouts at the crowd to stop, which they do, and she walks up to a cowering Quasi and frees him while handing him water, telling him not to be afraid. Frollo yells at her to step down from the platform at once, but she refuses, saying that the only fools around here are the crowd who frame an innocent man and she singles out Frollo as the biggest fool of them all. She throws the crown at his direction, and an angered Frollo orders for her arrest. Esmeralda uses her position to call for justice for Frollo's mistreatment of her people, but soon finds herself surrounded by Frollo's men. She takes out a napkin, looking like she's about to cry into it, only to use her smoke techniques from earlier to disappear from the stage. Frollo misinterprets that as witchcraft, and orders for the guards to search for her. The clouds darken and the crowd is forced to dissipate as Frollo walks up to Quasi and berates him.

 

Frollo: Did I not make myself clear, Quasimodo?

Quasi: M-master... I...

Frollo: Did you think I was being facetious all these years? Did you think I didn't do all this to protect you?

Quasi: I didn't... I...

Frollo: You have long ways to go before you can earn my trust again. Perhaps we can take something positive from this day in that you've learned something. And what is that?

Quasi: The world is cruel... the world is wicked...

Frollo: And it's I alone whom you can trust in this whole city... I am your only friend

Quasi: I'm sorry, master... I will never disobey you again.

 

Quasi trots back to the cathedral with the crowd staring at him in disgust along the way. He enters the cathedral and closes the doors behind him before he breaks down and cries. We cut to Quasi making his way back up to the bell tower where the gargoyles greet him, all quickly realizing that the wet, shredded and beaten Quasi isn't in the mood to speak. He tells Laverne that he's never going out there again as we get a small reprise of "Out There" with altered lyrics:

 

Safe behind these windows and these parapets of stone

No one up here left to hurt me

All my life I wondered 'bout the world right down there below

Master knew how much it would break me

[instrumental interlude]

I'll do as he say

Obey... and stay... in... here

 

Cut to Esmeralda sneaking into the cathedral disguised as the beggar she played before. Phoebus notices her and follows after. While in the cathedral Phoebus sneaks up on her but Esmeralda draws his sword and points it right at his throat. Phoebus apologizes in advance for kicking her and taking back his sword. Esmeralda retaliates by grabbing a candelabra she duels him with. Through Djali's help she gets the upper hand and kicks Phoebus to the ground. Phoebus puts away his sword and tells Esmeralda that he's not here to arrest her, at least as long as she's inside the church. He introduces himself to her and Esmeralda lowers her guard, remarking that he's not like the others. Frollo appears and congratulates Phoebus for capturing the gypsy girl, saying that for her actions in the square today she'll be swiftly punished. Phoebus turns to Esmeralda and whispers to her to claim "sanctuary", but Esmeralda is too angered by Phoebus "tricking" her to say it. In a saving move Phoebus turns to Frollo and tells him that Esmeralda's already declared sanctuary (even though she didn't) thus there's nothing he or Frollo could do. Frollo tells him to just drag her outside if he can't arrest her in here, but the Archdeacon appears and berates Frollo for not respecting the sanctity of the church, pointing out to him once again that the eyes of Notre Dame are watching. Enraged, Frollo turns around and walks away only to hide behind a pillar when they're not looking. The Archdeacon also orders Phoebus to leave, which he does, but not before Esmeralda thanks him for saving her. After Phoebus leaves, Frollo sneaks up on Esmeralda and grabs her from behind. He tells her that the second she steps outside of the church she'll be greeted with a rope around her beautiful neck. In a creepy move he sniffs her hair, which alarms Esmeralda. Esmeralda pushes him away, telling him that if he thinks he can have her he's being very optimistic. Frollo repeats his warning, saying that he's a patient man and will be waiting for her, before he leaves for real this time. Esmeralda immediately runs over to one of the church doors and finds that Frollo has stationed guards all around the church, and she comes to terms that she's stuck in Notre Dame for now. She chats up with the Archdeacon on Frollo, the Archdeacon telling her that she shouldn't underestimate his perseverance since Frollo has being hunting down gypsies for decades, and since she caused quite a stir at the festival she'll be a prime target. She brings up Quasimodo and how horribly he was treated out there, and the Archdeacon tells her that Frollo brought Quasi to live in this church many years ago, the details of this he's under vow not to tell.

 

We transition into Esmeralda's big song, which in this version isn't "God Helps the Outcasts" but a slightly reworked version of "Someday" which was originally supposed to go into the scene in the animated version. Quasi follows Esmeralda as she sings about a brighter future for her and her people. After the song ends she spots Quasi who flees from the scene while she tries to pursue him. Quasi runs back to his living quarters where he bumps into the gargoyles who convinces him to let Esmeralda catch up to him. Esmeralda finds him and tells him that she's sorry for what happened to him out there and blames herself for dragging him into the mess in the first place. A stuttering Quasi appreciates her apology but tries to excuse himself saying he has chores to do. Esmeralda sees Quasi's model and is amazed by the level of detail, wondering how someone who's stayed in the bell tower all his life could make such an accurate model. Quasi replies that you can pretty much see everything from the bell tower, and in the twenty years he's been there he's mapped out the entirety of Paris in his mind. He gathers the courage to invite her on a sightseeing tour, and introduces her to all the bells. Saving the best for last he shows her the view from the top of the bell tower and to the beautiful sight of Paris during sunset. Esmerelda says she could stay up here and just watch the view forever, but she then says she can't stay inside cathedral, for while she's safe she doesn't have her freedom, and gypsies don't do well inside stone walls. Quasi says she's not like other gypsies, which Frollo told him are evil thieves. Esmeralda wonders how Frollo can gaslight him into believing such horrible things like that, and Quasi replies that Frollo raised him ever since (according to Frollo) Quasi's mother abandoned him at the church steps for being a monster. Esmeralda reads his hand and says she doesn't find any monster lines, and asks Quasi back if he thinks she's evil, which he refutes. Emboldened by her kind words, he offers to help her escape the cathedral. Esmeralda tells him that the church is guarded from all doors. Quasi replies that they won't be using a door. He tells her to grab on to his back, which she does, and he climbs with her down the side of the cathedral while she holds on to Djali. The climbing goes smoothly until Quasi slips on a loose shingle and they surf down the roof until Quasi grabs onto a stone gargoyle while the shingle flies off the cathedral and crashes into one of the houses below, distracting the guards. Once safe on the ground Esmeralda thanks Quasi by offering to bring him to the "Court of Miracles" where he can be free. Quasi, after what happened to him in the town square today, declines the offer. Esmeralda says she'll visit him instead, and offers him a woven band containing the map to the Court of Miracles should Quasi ever need "sanctuary". She kisses him on the cheek before she leaves. Quasi makes his way back up and runs into Phoebus, who he tries to scare away by acting like a monster. Phoebus, not falling for the ploy, tells him that he's looking for Esmeralda. Now enraged, Quasi wrestles with Phoebus and puts him in a chokehold, while Phoebus tries to tell him that he don't mean her any harm. After being let go he tells Quasi that he lying about her declaring sanctuary was the only way to save her life, but he didn't mean to trap her there and hopes Quasi could tell her that. Before he leaves he tells Quasi that Esmeralda is lucky to have a friend like him.

 

Quasi is congratulated by the gargoyles on schooling Phoebus for trying to take "his girl". Quasi reacts to the suggestion that Esmeralda could ever be his girlfriend, thinking such a beautiful girl could never be in love with a hideous monster like him. This leads into "Heaven's Light" where Quasi expresses how Esmeralda lightened up his life as he rings the bells into the night, and we cut to the Palace of Justice where Frollo starts singing "Hellfire" where he expresses his sexual desires for Esmeralda. In this scene he is shown to have the scarf Esmeralda left him before, which he caresses himself with before throwing it into the fireplace. In the middle of the song a guard appears in the doorway to tell him that Esmeralda has escaped the church, and Frollo vows to find her even if he has to burn down all of Paris in the process. After the song concludes we cut to the next day where Frollo is granted an audience with Louis XI at his residence. Frollo steps in to find Louis at his desk with hundreds of horoscopes scattered. Louis says that the horoscopes foretold that a meeting between them would happen, which Frollo sees as rubbish and believing in what some hack wrote in a piece of paper that morning is almost an insult to a man like him who serves under God. Louis sees Frollo's tired eyes and wonders what's up, and Frollo replies that he had trouble with the fireplace the previous night. He asks Louis to lend him a small army to quarantine to city of Paris in search of one gypsy girl. Louis derides his request as ludicrous and since Frollo is not a Deacon himself he can't argue for it on religious grounds. Frollo decides to play the king's game by tricking him into thinking that the horoscopes predict that if Frollo doesn't catch this gypsy girl she can't lead him to the Court of Miracles and the gypsy infestation will further spread until they've successfully thrown France into ruin. Louis, now terrified of ruining the country he worked so hard to build up will be brought to ruin, grants Frollo's request of a small army. Cut to Frollo meeting up with Phoebus and the army of soldiers the king had granted him as he orders them to ravage through Paris until they've found Esmeralda. This leads into the film's first original song, "Find the Gypsy Girl", where Frollo expresses increasing frustration over the soldier's increasingly violent methods prove fruitless while Phoebus disapproval grows stronger.

 

Near the end of the song Frollo locks an entire family into their mill and orders it to be burnt down with them inside because they gave gypsies shelter. During this scene we see a disguised Esmeralda watching from afar. Frollo gives the torch to Phoebus who finally disobeys him by throwing the torch into a well. That doesn't stop Frollo as he lights another torch and sets the mill on fire himself. Horrified by what Frollo's done, he breaks through the barriers the soldiers have set up and rescues the family from the burning wreckage. Frollo orders for Phoebus to be immediately executed for his disobedience but Esmeralda saves him by throwing a rock at Frollo's horse, frightening it and throwing Frollo off allowing Phoebus to grab it and escape. The soldiers fire arrows at him but are told to stop by Frollo for they risk hitting his horse. After Phoebus escapes he comes across Esmeralda near the aqueducts and tells her to leave the city for Frollo will not stop until he's found her. Esmeralda refuses to leave since her loved ones are put in danger by Frollo's rampage, and neither Phoebus nor anyone else can convince her to leave. Phoebus comes clear and tells her that he purposefully misled the soldiers so that they would never find her, only he didn't know Frollo would go as far as he did. Esmeralda asks why he's risking his life for her, and he tells it that if there's one thing he's learned from the war is that evil exists on both sides, not just with the enemy, and he's made a vow to protect those that'd be hurt the most. We pan behind them and see Frollo approaching them with a dagger drawn. He stabs Phoebus in the back for his treachery and throws him into the water before grabbing Esmeralda and trying to drag him with her. She pushes him away and dives after Phoebus. After Frollo loses sight of her she surfaces with a wounded Phoebus, telling him that she knows a safe place where they could hide. We see Paris in flames as Frollo ponders how Esmeralda could have escaped the cathedral if the guards were at every door. Only one possibility remains as he looks towards the Notre Dame: she had help from the inside.

 

Cut to Quasi and the gargoyles overlooking the burning city, hoping to see any sign of Esmeralda. Hugo declares the situation to be absolutely hopeless, but Laverne tells him not to give up hope. Victor is just distracted by losing a card game to a bird. Quasi wonders if he shouldn't go out there and try to locate Esmeralda, but Laverne tells him that it'd be too dangerous, and whatever the crowd did to him the soldiers would do a hundred times worse. Victor dismisses any concerns by saying that Esmeralda is a clever girl who knows how to be two steps ahead of Frollo at all times, and she'll be back because she likes Quasi. Quasi hears the door opening and fears it's Frollo, only to find it's Esmeralda carrying the wounded Phoebus. Esmeralda asks Quasi to do one more favor for her and that is to take care of Phoebus, knowing he'd be safe in his bell tower. A bit dismayed by Phoebus's presence at first, Quasi lets him rest in his bed. Time passes as Esmeralda tends to Phoebus's wounds while Quasi watches on. Esmeralda says Phoebus was lucky, that dagger nearly pierced his heart, but Phoebus grabs Esmeralda's hand (alarming Quasi), proclaiming that while the dagger didn't, something else did. This leads into the film's second original song, "Angel's Touch", where Phoebus and Esmeralda declare their love for one another while a heartbroken Quasi looks on. After the song ends Djali alerts them that Frollo is coming, and we cut to Frollo ascending the tower while pursued by the Archdeacon.

 

Archdeacon: What could possibly make you think that the hunchback had anything to do with this?!

Frollo: I had my guards stand at every door in this cathedral and yet she escaped, unless this was yet another of her witchcraft she had someone helping her from the inside, and I know how the hunchback looked at her during the festival! [stops] Unless... you had a hand in this.

Archdeacon: What? No! You insinuate that I am a part of some conspiracy?! I only serve to guide people to their faith and help the downtrodden!

Frollo: If I find either the captain or the gypsy up in that bell tower then I swear to God no claims of sanctuary or "eyes of Notre Dame" will save the hunchback from what I will do to him!

 

The Archdeacon backs off as Frollo proceeds to the bell tower. Quasi leads Esmeralda to a bridge connecting the two towers where they can descend on the other side. Esmeralda thanks him once again for being such a dear friend and begs him to promise that nothing will happen to Phoebus. Quasi promises as Esmeralda leaves and he hurries back up to hide Phoebus before Frollo arrives. He hides Phoebus under the model table as Frollo walks in carrying a similar food basket to what he had at the beginning of the film. Quasi wonders if it isn't a little late for a meal but Frollo replies that it's never too late for him to spend time with his "child". As Quasi hurriedly readies the table Frollo spots the woven band Esmeralda gave Quasi earlier and quietly deduces that the gypsy must have given him it. Quasi asks if they should do the daily alphabet but Frollo says he has other ideas. He insinuates that Quasi is hiding something, while Quasi does his damnedest to conceal Phoebus. Frollo picks up one of the dolls from Quasi's model of the city, a doll resembling Esmeralda, proclaiming it to be new and surprisingly detailed, and he flips out as he reveals to Quasi that he knows that Quasi aided in her escape, berating Quasi for betraying his trust once again. In a fit of rage he smashes Quasi's model, blaming Quasi for the burning of Paris and reminding him of his mother as an example to show that gypsies are not capable of real love and that Esmeralda was using him. As he calms down, his tone shifts to patronizing, saying a weak-minded soul like Quasi stood no chance against Esmeralda's wicked ways. He promises that he will rid her of their lives soon enough, as he takes out the dagger he stabbed Phoebus with and stabs the Esmeralda doll before setting it on fire over a lit candle. He reveals that he knows where her hideout is (namely the Court of Miracles) and at dawn he will attack with a thousand men. Frollo exits - but not before we see him smirking - as Quasi tries to collect his thoughts. Phoebus wakes up and declares that they have to find the Court of Miracles before Frollo does, but Quasi refuses to come along since he can't disobey his master again. Phoebus accuses him of cowardice after Esmeralda stood up for him back at the festival, but Quasi accuses him back by asking what he did when he was tortured by the people out there. Phoebus decides he's had enough of this and goes to find the Court of Miracles himself, having recovered from his stab wound. The gargoyles reappear and Quasi tells them that he's not some kind of hero destined to save the day and the girl, and he's had enough of the horrors of the world as is. Esmeralda already has her knight in shining armor and it's not him. At the same time he sees the burned remains of the Esmeralda doll and comes to the conclusion that maybe Phoebus can't do this alone. Laverne hands him his cloak and Quasi decides to go after Phoebus. He runs into him in the streets of Paris and asks to come along, which Phoebus gladly accepts. He shows Phoebus the woven band Esmeralda gave him and says that it'll help them find her... only they don't know how to interpret the map. They guess that the cross in the middle must be the cathedral, and thus the marker to the east (assuming the map points north) is where the hideout is. Phoebus then asks for a truce between them for Esmeralda's sake, which Quasi accepts by slapping Phoebus in the back a little too hard.

 

The marker points to a graveyard at the east end of the city. Phoebus and Quasi come across a grave that have the same symbol as the marker on the map. Phoebus tries to look for some hidden pattern while Quasi uses his strength to lift off the lid of the grave revealing a staircase descending underneath. They enter and walk across creepy catacombs filled with human remains. Phoebus sarcastically remarks that this will make Quasi wish he went out more, while Quasi says he only wants to warn Esmeralda and then get back to the bell tower before he gets into any more trouble. Suddenly they're ambushed by men dressed as skeletons and are held down while Clopin appears in front of them. He orders them to be brought to the Court of Miracles and be executed for being Frollo's spies. They're brought to the Court Of Miracles (a large underground chamber where all the gypsies have built huts and collect all the stuff they've been gathering) and before a noose. Quasi and Phoebus try to claim that they're not Frollo's spies, but the crowd cheers Clopin on to pull the lever. Just before he does that though Esmeralda intervenes, explaining to her fellow gypsies that the two aren't spies but rather they helped her escape Frollo's grasp several times. Clopin immediately changes his attitude and declares that the two should be celebrated with a feast. Phoebus tells him to skip the feast because Frollo is coming with a thousand men behind him and they should leave immediately. The gypsies start to panic as they scramble their belongings and make their escape. Esmeralda express her gratitude for Phoebus coming here despite the terrible risk, but Phoebus humbles himself and says that it's really Quasi she should thank, otherwise they wouldn't have found the place. As it turns out, neither would have Frollo. The gypsies are immediately ambushed and surrounded by Frollo's men as they proceed to arrest them all. Frollo remarks that if it weren't for Esmeralda's own foolishness he may have never found the place. Esmeralda asks what he's talking about, and Frollo snatches the woven band from Quasi and shows it to her. He congratulates Quasi on being such a good sport before crushing the woven band in his hand. Quasi gets on his knees and begs Frollo to let his friends go, a request Frollo swiftly ignores. Instead he orders for Quasi to be brought back to the bell tower and to be made sure he stays there this time. Cut to the royal residence where Frollo walks in on Louis trying to figure out how to deal with the ramifications of Frollo basically setting all of Paris on fire just to find this one girl. Frollo proudly announces that not only did he catch the gypsy girl, but he destroyed the Court of Miracles and squashed the gypsy infestation in the process. He came to ask that he'd preside over Esmeralda's trial and execution, a request Louis is doubtful of at first, but Frollo convinces him that as a skilled witch Esmeralda could tamper with his horoscopes. Terrified, Louis gives him the go-ahead.

 

The execution begins in front of the Notre Dame in the early morning as crowds gather to either witness or protest Esmeralda's sentencing. Frollo declares that Esmeralda, who's bound to a stake, has been found guilty of witchcraft and has been sentenced to be burned at the stake. Phoebus, locked in a cage nearby with the other gypsies, is forced to watch. The Archdeacon tries to intervene, but is stopped by Frollo's men and escorted back into the cathedral. As Frollo approaches Esmeralda with a lit torch, he whispers to her that it is not yet too late to save herself from the fire of this world and the next. All she has to do is to fulfill his sexual desires. Esmeralda responds by spitting in Frollo's face. Frollo takes this final rejection in stride, as he announces to the crowd that Esmeralda has chosen not to recant her supposed pagan beliefs and thus shall face the fire. We pan up towards the bell towers where Quasi is strapped in chains around the pillars of the bridge connecting the two. The gargoyles are seen trying to loosen the chains, while Quasi hangs defeated. The gargoyles tell Quasi that he can't let Frollo win, but Quasi only blames himself for everything that's happened. Laverne scorns at him that the chains are not the ones holding him back, he himself is. Quasi tells them to leave him alone so he can wallow in his own sorrow. The gargoyles, dismayed, leave him be, remarking that they are only figures made out of stone and hoped Quasi would have been made of something stronger before fading into their stone forms. As Quasi overhears Frollo he walks over to the edge and sees Frollo setting Esmeralda on fire. Enraged, Quasi pulls his chains with greater strength than he ever has before, causing the stone pillars to collapse and freeing him. He uses the chains as a vine to swing down from the top of the cathedral and onto the execution platform, pushing Frollo away and freeing an unconscious Esmeralda before swinging his way back up to the cathedral, holding up Esmeralda's body and shouting "SANCTUARY!!!" to rapturous cheers from the crowd.

 

The Archdeacon sees what is happening and promptly locks all the doors into the cathedral. Enraged, Frollo orders a siege on the cathedral while Quasi brings Esmeralda into the bell tower, vowing to keep her safe as he heads out to fight the invaders. Quasi starts by throwing a beam down at the soldiers below, destroying a carriage and nearly hitting Frollo. Frollo grabs one of the soldiers' sword and orders the rest to pick up the beam and break down the cathedral door. Phoebus grabs hold of a nearby guard and knocks him out, grabbing the keys and freeing himself before rallying the people of Paris to revolt against Frollo on the grounds that he has persecuted the innocent, ransacked the city and has now declared war on Notre Dame herself. The citizens attack Frollo's men and the scene turns into a massive riot. Quasi fends off soldiers trying to climb the walls of Notre Dame while Phoebus battle the soldiers on the street. As Frollo's beam inches closer and closer to breaking down the door, Quasi lights up molten lead that he proceeds to pour down the side of the church, creating a lava-like stream that shields the cathedral from the invading soldiers. Frollo is caught between the molten lead and the door and uses his sword to break through the latter where he's confronted by the Archdeacon. Asking if he's gone mad, the Archdeacon grabs a candelabra and tells Frollo that he won't tolerate this attack on his church. Frollo fends the old man off easily before knocking him out with the hilt. He tells the Archdeacon that he won't let him interfere on what is about to happen. Not this time.

 

Quasi goes back to the bell tower to tell Esmeralda that they've beaten back the soldiers, only to find Esmeralda unresponsive. Quasi tries to revive her with no luck. The smoke emanating from the fire have gotten to her lungs and choked her. She's dead. It takes a moment or two for him to realize it, but when he does he holds her in his arms as he sobs softly while we see a familiar shadow emerging from behind. Frollo puts his hand on Quasi's shoulder and begs him for forgiveness, saying he only did his duty and Esmeralda's death was the tragic outcome of a long line of misunderstandings. Frollo pledges to end Quasi's suffering... forever. Quasi sees Frollo's shadow with what appears to be a dagger in his hand and he turns to see Frollo attempting to stab him. Quasi fights him off and throws him across the room. Quasi grabs Frollo's dagger and points it towards a now cowardly Frollo who pleads for him to calm down. Quasi screams at him that he's been gaslighted all his life to believe that the world is a dark and cruel place, but now he knows that it only is dark and cruel because people like Frollo make it so. Frollo is backed to a ledge as Quasi tells him that the only person who ever truly cared about him is now dead all thanks to his bigotry. Frollo pleads some more to Quasi but Quasi's decided he's had enough, and he swiftly throws Frollo over the ledge. After Frollo apparently falls to his death Quasi comes to his senses and realizes what he's done, and he sulks. His mourning is interrupted by what sounds like Frollo grunting, and he looks over the ledge to see Frollo hanging by one of the stone gargoyles. Frollo pleads for Quasi to pull him up, and overcome by guilt Quasi does just that. Frollo uses the opportunity to stab Quasi in the arm and throw him over the ledge. Quasi saves himself by grabbing the same gargoyle as Frollo pulls out his sword and swings at him. Quasi acrobats his way across the bell tower before being cornered by Frollo. It is here that Frollo inadvertently reveals what really happened to Quasi's mother, and proclaims that he's going to do what he should have done twenty years ago: send Quasi back to hell where he belongs. He uses his cape to entrap Quasi and pull him under but Quasi grabs hold of the cape and drags him with him. With one hand on the ledge and one hand on the cape Frollo's holding onto, Quasi sees his master yet again plead for his life.

 

Frollo: Quasimodo... listen to me... don't...

[a rift forms in the cape]

Frollo: No! No! Quasimodo! Pull me up! I will not try and hurt you!

Quasi: That's what you said the first time!

[the fabric tears itself further]

Frollo: Listen! I-i can fix all this! I will release you from your prison! I will set everyone free!

[the fabric tears itself even further]

Quasi: It's too late for Esmeralda!

Frollo: Yes, yes it is! I could not expect forgiveness for what I've done! But please... just this one time!

 

Quasi sees a ledge nearby and swings Frollo towards it. Frollo grabs on to the ledge and climbs up. The blood loss coming from the stabbed arm in combination with the exhumes of the molten lead below starts messing with Quasi's head and his grip on the ledge starts slipping. Frollo, showing once again he hasn't repented, cackles and lifts his sword to strike him down, saying the line "And he shall smite the wicked and plunge them into the fiery pit!" when the ledge he stands on starts to crumble. He slips and grabs hold of the cape again but this time the fabric gives away and Frollo falls to his death. Quasi passes out and almost follows suit only to be rescued by Phoebus. Once he regains consciousness, Phoebus asks what happened to Esmeralda and Quasi shows him her corpse. Phoebus takes Esmeralda's corpse away as Quasi is left to mourn all by himself. The gargoyles appear again to try and comfort Quasi, telling him that while the world is full of evil, it's full of good too, and Esmeralda was an example of that. We see the crowd dismayed as Phoebus is seeing carrying away Esmeralda's body.

 

Cut to days later where Quasi sits alone in his bell tower. He hasn't rung in days, he just sits and stares at the remains of his city model while holding up the burned remains of the Esmeralda doll. The gargoyles are in a similarly downer mood until they hear something coming from outside. They encourage Quasi to go look and he walks outside to see a crowd of people placing flowers at the steps of the cathedral in memory of Esmeralda. Phoebus is looking up at Quasi, encouraging him to come down. Reluctantly, Quasi meets Phoebus at the doorway to the cathedral where he's also greeted by the Archdeacon. The Archdeacon's first act is to beg for forgiveness to Quasi, saying he should have done more to stop Frollo's cruel treatment of him. Phoebus says he's brought a guest, and a royal carriage arrives. To everyone's shock out steps the reclusive Louis XI who demands that he gets to meet this hunchback he's heard so much about. Phoebus brings him into the cathedral and Louis is revolted at Quasi's appearance, but he is told to knock it off by Phoebus. Louis goes on to admit that Frollo's abuse of authority (and Louis's own superstitions) were the root causes of all that had happened, and he offers to extend a royal pardon to both Phoebus and Quasi. Phoebus may have started a violent riot and Quasi may have caused damage to the the cathedral that'll take years to repair, but in doing so they saved Paris. Quasi asks if the pardon could retroactively extend to Esmeralda and all the others that have suffered under Frollo and after some deliberation the king accepts. Quasi tells Phoebus that he's ready to face the crowd, and he walks out to see everyone just looking at him. A little girl comes forward and touches his face, finding him endearing rather than frightening. Quasi hugs her back and Clopin calls on everyone to cheer for Quasimodo, leading to the reprise of "Bells of Notre Dame" closing out the film as Quasi is carried away by the cheering crowd as the gargoyles look on from the bell tower.

 

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Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills

Release Date: February 17th

Studio: Gold Crescent Pictures

Genre: Teen Superhero Comedy

Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber

Theatre Count: 3,214

Shooting Format: Digital 3.4K (Arri Alexa SXT EV)

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Image Release Format: 2K DCP

Audio Release Formats: 5.1, 7.1

Production Budget: $40 million

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for action violence, rude humor, suggestive content and some language

Running Time: 94 minutes

Major Cast: Bailee Madison (Laurie), Kiernan Shipka (Drew), Dakota Goyo (Gordon), Dante Brown (Swinton), Malcolm McDowall (Nimbar), Wesley Snipes (Gorganus), Tina Fey (Drew's Aunt), Josh Gad (Lechner)

 

Plot Summary:

 

Long story short: An evil alien emperor known as Gorganus sets his sights on conquering Earth, the focal point of a network of Power Portals that will allow him to take over the universe. Nimbar, the gelatinous guardian of the Power Portals, recruits four teenagers from Beverly Hills - Gordon, a preppy womanizer, Laurie, an overachieving valley girl, Swinton, a stereotypical nerd, and Drew, a mentally-challenged nutjob - to become superheroic Galactic Sentinels and defend the planet. This mission is complicated by the fact that the teens hate each other and have no fighting experience whatsoever. The team barely manages to fend off attacks by two of Gorganus' alien warriors through sheer luck, but realize they need to bond as a team to reach their full potential. Just as they come to respect one another and take their mission seriously, Gorganus himself arrives on Earth to battle them. Because this isn't a happy-cheery glorified toy commercial for kids, Gorganus naturally wipes the floor with them, takes over Earth, marries Drew's insane aunt, and begins his conquest of the universe unhindered.

 

Full (very long) plot recap in spoilers:

 

Spoiler

 

PROLOGUE

 

In his evil palace on the planet Moleculon, deep in an uncharted galaxy, the sinister alien Emperor Gorganus (Wesley Snipes) beckons a space mercenary into his throne room. The mercenary announces that he's retrieved the important map that Gorganus wanted, and presents him with an inkjet printout of a Google StarMapsTM space route to the nearest Nova Burger restaurant. Satisfied, Gorganus cackles evilly and declares that their precious golden fries will finally be his – with reduced salt, of course.

 

Just as the mercenary goes to leave, he stops, turns back around, and coyly mentions he has another map the emperor may be interested in. He produces a translucent glass-like sheet with bizarre geometric etchings, not identifiable as a map, and holds it in front of Gorganus, who promptly asks what this bullshit is. The mercenary replies that it's touch-activated and Gorganus needs to place his finger on a small etching at the bottom. He tries this and nothing happens. He becomes flustered, threatening to vaporize the merc, but the mercenary remarks that this technology is sensitive and sometimes it doesn't work if you have gloves on. Gorganus rips one of the gauntlets off of his space armor, revealing a scaly, slime-covered, monstrous claw, and presses his index finger on the etching.

 

Suddenly the sheet projects a holographic map of the universe into the air, with a web of lines criss-crossing it and converging on a single location – Earth. Gorganus is shocked. This mercenary has found the map that shows the focal point of the Power Portals! By conquering Earth, he could control all intergalactic transportation, allowing him to spread his evil empire to the farthest reaches of space. The mercenary asks for his reward, expecting it to be great, but instead, Gorganus simply zaps him with a bolt from his remaining gauntlet and vaporizes him, staring transfixed at the map. He realizes he's never heard of Earth, and wonders aloud if the planet is even home to any intelligent life.

 

Cut to a high school classroom on Earth – in Beverly Hills, to be specific. Gordon (Dakota Goyo), a preppy, overconfident, smug student, is sitting at his desk in science class with his hand raised. “But Ms. Johnson,” he says without prompting, “there must be sound in space! I can always hear the lasers in Star Wars!”

 

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Cut to after school, at a local Beverly Hills café dubbed “Café Dégueulasse.” Swinton (Dante Brown), a stereotypical high school nerd complete with unfashionable glasses and a whiny voice, is sitting at a table with his father, who's scolding him for not taking school seriously. Swinton replies that he's too smart for school, and that the other students he has to work with are insufferable. His science teacher, he points out, has paired him with Gordon Henley, the dumbest and most stuck-up kid in school, for his science project. He also has to work with two girls, Laurie Foster and Drew Vincent. Laurie is captain of the cheer team, class president, head of the debate club, and on the prom committee and will, he thinks, have no time for serious academics. Worse, he claims Drew is “totally out to lunch.”

 

Drew (Kiernan Shipka), who works as a waiter at the café, happens to be serving a nearby table and overhears this comment. Dressed in an unflattering but “rebellious” outfit consisting of a leather vest, plaid miniskirt, and oversized graphic tee shirt with combat boots, she swivels to Swinton as she delivers a cup of coffee to a customer, absentmindedly placing it on the edge of their table and causing it to spill all over them. Ignoring the customer's agonized scream, she demands to know what Swinton said about her. Swinton stammers awkwardly and his father steps in, claiming he said they'd have to come here for lunch one day on the weekend when Drew's working. Drew tells them they'd better hurry up, because she's this close to unionizing the wait staff and getting weekends off. Still, once Drew leaves, Swinton's father reassures him that the the other two can't possibly be as bad as he thinks.

 

Cut to the high school football field, where cheerleading practice is in session. Gordon is taking pictures of the practice, but most of his photos tend to focus on the cheerleaders' backsides. Laurie (Bailee Madison) notices and comes over to confront him. This results in a vulgar (as far as the PG-13 allows) argument between the two with flying insults and rolling eyes, but also palpable sexual tension as they glance at each other in uncomfortable ways. Eventually Laurie takes Gordon's camera, removes the memory card, and tries to break it in two. When she can't, and Gordon mocks her for being a weak, flimsy woman, she simply swallows it whole.

 

Back in his palace on Moleculon, Gorganus plans his attack on Earth. He's placed a desk in front of his throne that's covered in hastily-scribbled notes in an alien language, along with childlike sketches of various alien monsters. He's scratching his chin, even though he's wearing a full-head helmet, and twirling his No. 2 pencil with a skull-shaped eraser. Suddenly his pet, an annoying birdlike creature called Lechner (voiced by Josh Gad), flies into the room, the fluttering of his wings sending Gorganus' notes and sketches flying off the desk. Gorganus flips out and threatens to roast him, but Lechner calms him down with some begging and pleading and ass-kissing compliments. The emperor peers down at the last remaining sketch on his desk – a crude drawing of a samurai wearing a kabuki mask, with random gears and wires sticking out of his armor. He announces that fate has told him the monstrous mercenary he needs to conquer Earth – Ninjabot, the samurai robot!

 

Cut to Earth, a random California desert. A lone woman sits at a dusty roadside bus stop, idly clicking away on her smartphone. Suddenly, a Power Portal opens in the sky, and a 200-foot-tall Ninjabot drops out of it, landing out in the open and striking a battle pose. It brandishes its sword menacingly, looking around for an opponent, for something to destroy – anything. Eventually it spots the lonely bus stop. It fires a laser blast from the tip of its sword, striking the ground nearby and shaking the run-down bus stop shelter. The woman remains oblivious. Ninjabot throws a giant shuriken that cuts the roof of the shelter in half, leaving the separate sides to fall over and expose the woman – who remains glued to her phone. Finally, Ninjabot shouts “BOO” and the woman looks up and shrieks in terror. She starts to run before stopping to take a selfie of herself in front of the giant evil robot.

 

Later that afternoon, the four teens are set to meet up at Drew's house, or, specifically, in her backyard by the pool. Drew, Gordon, and Laurie are there, barely tolerating each other's company, but Swinton is late. Drew's legal guardian, her idiot aunt (Tina Fey), checks in on them and asks if they want any snacks. They say no but she brings out a huge platter of cheese, crackers, sandwich meats and salads anyway. Drew says this was all supposed to be for the PTA meeting last night but her aunt explains that she was “fired” from the PTA. Swinton arrives, lugging a huge, bizarre metal contraption with him. Drew's aunt leaves them to discuss their project.

 

Swinton announces he's already finished their project for them, and drops it on the table, crushing the snacks. The others ask what it does, because it “just looks like a lot of bullshit,” and Swinton proudly tells them to turn it on and find out. Gordon flips the switch, the machine lights up, and suddenly, a space-time portal emerges next to the pool. Drew sticks her hand in it and it disappears into parts unknown until she pulls it back out. Laurie is flabbergasted. “You invented this!?” she asks Swinton. After hesitating for a moment, he unconvincingly claims he did. “Yes. Yes. I invented a portal gun in my dad's garage.”

 

Drew, out to lunch as she is, jumps through the portal. The others react in shock, except for Gordon, who deadpans that she's probably dead now and it's no great loss. Laurie is terrified, but mostly for herself, worried that being implicated in the disappearance of a fellow classmate will ruin her reputation. She follows Drew through. Swinton follows her out of scientific curiosity. Gordon tries to leave but trips over a bowl of chips that fell off the table and tumbles into the portal. With all four teens transported, the portal closes. Drew's aunt comes back out with yet more snacks only to stumble upon a scene of devastation. She shrugs and sits at the table, only for Swinton's useless pile of junk to erupt into flames. Drew's aunt stabs a small sausage with a fork and roasts it over the failed science project.

 

On the other end of the portal, the teens emerge in a dimly-lit cave filled with generic sci-fi claptrap. They are greeted by Nimbar (voiced by Malcolm McDowall), a wise space alien best described as a mound of goo on a pedestal. The teens react in disgust but he assures them he means them no harm. Instead, he goes on to give an exposition dump about Gorganus' plot to control the Power Portals, how he is the appointed guardian of said portals, and how Gorganus has sent Ninjabot, the samurai robot, to conquer Earth. At this point Swinton stops him and points out samurai and ninjas are two completely different things, but Nimbar just tells him to shut up and listen.

 

Nimbar explains he is the mentor of the Galactic Sentinels, a team of superheroes summoned to protect the Power Portals, and that these four are the ones who are destined to become the newest Sentinel team. Swinton excitedly asks if it's because they were chosen for their unique set of skills, and Nimbar informs them that no, they were just the only four people stupid enough to go through any of the Power Portals he opened on Earth. Laurie asks what happened to the last team of Galactic Sentinels if he needs new ones so badly and Nimbar says he'd rather not talk about it. At first the teens – except Drew, who's all about saving the world – are understandably reluctant to join up. But then Laurie reasons being a superhero will look great on her college applications, Swinton is convinced by the chance to interact with alien lifeforms, and Gordon joins because Nimbar won't let him leave until he does.

 

The ceremony to christen the new Sentinels commences. Nimbar reaches out with a slimy tentacle to touch each teen's wrist, and tattoos in the shape of constellations form at this contact – Scorpius for Laurie, Taurus for Gordon, Centaurus for Drew, and Corvus for Swinton. These tattoos, they are told, will be invisible until Nimbar requires their services, at which point they will flash into existence, and a portal will open nearby to transport them to the lair. Nimbar explains the teens will draw galactic power from their constellations, and that once they transform, they will be imbued with all the fighting skills and knowledge of the Sentinels who came before them. He beckons each teen to step onto a small round pedestal of their own – which he calls a “Transo-Disc” – and shout the name of their constellation in order to transform.

 

The teens comply, and are thus transformed – which in this case means their clothes are replaced by their Galactic Sentinel uniforms, which look almost exactly like the ones on the original TV show – essentially brightly-colored but featureless skintight wrestling singlets, with matching face masks with metal mouthpieces, gloves and boots, belts for the guys, and their constellation logo on their chests. The teens are less than impressed and Nimbar explains he had to throw them together at the last minute. The team has more questions, but Nimbar is sick of them and portals them into the desert with Ninjabot.

 

Once transported, the Sentinels are giant, a match in size for their robotic enemy. The battle begins, and the teens quickly realize that while they do have super-strength, Nimbar was full of crap when he told them they would inherit actual fighting skills. They clumsily flail and flip around, dodging lasers, throwing stars, and sword swipes as best they can, but they are quickly overwhelmed. Swinton advises the others he'll use his technical know-how to find a way to disable the robot if they can distract it. Hijinks ensue as the other three teens scramble around the desert, hiding behind rock formations and such, until Swinton sneaks up on the robot, punches a hole in its back, and pulls out a bunch of wires. Ninjabot falls to the ground, deactivated.

 

Up on Moleculon, Gorganus has been watching the battle in his home theater, complete with a jumbo sized bucket of popcorn which Lechner was pecking at like birdseed. He becomes enraged upon seeing his robot defeated, but declares that he's beaten all of the Galactic Sentinels that got in his way before them, and that they will be no different. He just needs to come up with a brilliant evil plan!

 

The teens are teleported back to Nimbar's lair and de-transformed, and quickly gang up on him, complaining about the outfits and their lack of battle skill. Nimbar replies that he had to say something to convince them to fight, or else the Earth would have fallen to the forces of evil. He promises that next time they are needed he will reveal to them an awesome new power and also have better costumes.

 

The next day, the four teens have a series of awkward interactions in school. They still don't like each other but feel obligated to discuss their shared experience and anxieties over having to save the world. Other kids and teachers keep stumbling across them discussing their superheroics and force them to awkwardly change the subject. The teens eventually agree that unless Nimbar comes through with the promised new power, they will quit being Sentinels – after all, Ninjabot was just walking around the desert and posing no threat to anyone.

 

Suddenly, their tattoos flash, and a Power Portal opens... in the girl's restroom. The girls have to literally drag Swinton and Gordon inside as other students look on suspiciously. The four arrive in Nimbar's lair and are informed that Emperor Gorganus has sent down an alien monster known as Slaygar, a gigantic living mass of toxic space waste, to destroy the Earth's environment and force the humans to surrender to his rule. He shows them, via a holo-screen, the live feed of the monster rampaging through a forest, reducing trees to brown goop with his acid slime.

 

The teens remind Nimbar that they were promised a new power and new costumes, and threaten to quit if their demands aren't met. Nimbar reveals to them that they have the ability to join their bodies and minds into a powerful space knight known as Knightron, armed with interstellar armor, a space-titanium shield, and Megacalibur, “the most powerful sword in the universe.” The teens ask him why he didn't tell them about this ability sooner, and he replies that they're a bunch of inexperienced idiots who aren't really ready for it, but if he has to tell them about it to get them to protect their own planet then so be it. He also tells them their new costumes are ready and will be equipped as soon as they transform.

 

The teens comply and find themselves in... marginally improved super-suits. They offer total body coverage and have a less embarrassing look overall but are still very much cheesy kids' show stuff. The four are teleported into battle and find that Slaygar is a formidable foe indeed. His toxic fumes make them light-headed, and his acid eats through their suits. None of the teens are willing to actually punch or kick him because their hands and feet would probably melt off, and also it's totally gross.

 

Determined to prove to Nimbar they're capable of handling the power of Knightron, the four link arms and attempt to combine, only to realize Nimbar never told them HOW to actually do it. They try a series of idiotic catchphrases and positions, all the while dodging Slaygar's sludge balls, before finally stumbling on the right procedure, forming a diamond shape by aligning their wrist tattoos. In a flash of light, the four bodies are replaced by Knightron, a buff, shining knight in futuristic space armor. At first the teens try to congratulate themselves on their accomplishment, but they are soon horrified to discover they can now read each other's minds. They're overwhelmed by Swinton's random geek knowledge, Laurie's valley-girl obsessions, Gordon's perverted thoughts about his female teammates, and Drew's constant stream of babbling nonsense. Badly out of sync, Knightron tries to attack Slaygar but ends up tripping over its own feet.

 

In his private theater on Moleculon, Gorganus watches with a steaming plate of cheesy nachos. He gloats to Lechner over his impending victory, laughing evilly at the plight of the helpless Knightron. Lechner cackles with him, but the bird's own annoying laugh soon overshadows that of the emperor, who stops laughing altogether and dumps his soda on Lechner's head to shut him up.

 

Back on Earth, Knightron is finally starting to get its bearings, but is being assaulted with tons of acidic goo. Its armor and shield are holding up for now, but beginning to smoke and soften. The space knight slashes at Slaygar with Megacalibur, but the sword simply gets stuck inside the creature's goopy mass. Knightron tries to yank it out, but it's no use. The teens' unified minds argue about what to do next, and get so distracted mentally yelling at each other that they're caught off guard when Slaygar vomits up a thick film of clinging, toxic, stinky muck right onto Knightron's face. The space knight's struggles gradually weaken as it succumbs to the intergalactic slime, but just as all hope seems lost, Knightron's thumb slides onto what looked like an ornamental etching on the hilt. A massive surge of blue energy erupts from the blade, frying Slaygar from the inside and reducing him to a cloud of smoke. Knightron collapses and is portaled back by Nimbar.

 

The four teens awaken in Nimbar's lair, dazed and confused. Drew asks how long they were out, and Nimbar informs them it's been three years and the world has already fallen to Gorganus. The teens panic, but Nimbar tells them to calm down and that it's actually only been twenty minutes. He was simply letting them know what could have happened since they performed so poorly in battle. Gordon retorts that they won in the end, vaporizing the beast, to which Nimbar points out that the remnants of Slaygar formed a cloud of acid rain that's currently melting San Bernardino. He warns them that Gorganus is sure to strike back with a vengeance, and that the team had better “get their shit together” before that happens, or the world is doomed.

 

That night, the four decide to have a sleepover at Drew's house to try and bond as a team. Drew's aunt asks why she's inviting these three back over when they aren't even friends, and Drew tells her the truth about them being a team of superheroes who can merge into one body. Her aunt assumes this is slang for some weird sex thing and pulls a bunch of condoms she just happens to have out of her pocket, handing them to the boys. The sleepover is disastrous, with the teens unable to overcome their differences. Gordon flirts relentlessly with Laurie, who gets so fed up with his advances she claims to be a lesbian. This only leads to Drew flirting with her just as aggressively. Swinton keeps trying to interject with horrible inspirational quotes he's found on the internet. Ultimately, all four storm out of the house, until Drew remembers she lives there and returns. Her aunt reassures her that it's okay if she can't keep friends, because the world will probably end soon anyway. Drew is shocked and asks if her aunt really believed the superhero thing after all, to which she replies that she read on the internet that a rare planetary alignment is about to send Pluto crashing into Earth, killing all life on the planet.

 

The next day, the four avoid each other in school, and each one is so distracted by their anger, resentment, and fear for the fate of the world that they fail miserably at something they're normally good at. Gordon forgets all his pick-up lines while flirting with girls, Laurie clumsily knocks a bucket of paint all over the in-progress banner for prom, Swinton only gets a B on a pop quiz, and Drew forgets to wear pants. After school, they all run into each other at the café where Drew works, and have an incredibly corny heart-to-heart where they reveal their darkest secrets to one another. Laurie says she's only taken on so much in high school because she was the unpopular fat girl in elementary school. Swinton admits he immerses himself in academics because he has crippling social anxiety. Gordon admits he's actually a closeted gay who keeps up appearances by being a horrible womanizer.

 

Drew relates the story of how, when she was a small child, she and her parents went on vacation to Iraq the day before the American invasion in 2003. Her mother and father were killed in an explosion in Baghdad, and she was left orphaned on the streets until an American soldier found her in a gutter. While she was being evacuated, insurgents attacked the convoy she was in, and a piece of shrapnel became lodged in her brain, leaving her with permanent mental development issues. Once she was back in the US, she lived in an orphanage where she and the other children were forced to manufacture cheap consumer electronics in a secret basement sweatshop. One day, her long-lost aunt was found deep in the Amazon jungle where she'd disappeared on an expedition to make contact with a legendary tribe. She had gone insane, but had also been revered as a goddess by the indigenous people and given tons of intricate jewelry, which she promptly sold in order to live a lavish lifestyle in Beverly Hills. Drew was placed under her care and finally escaped her living hell, but she still has horrible night terrors about being whipped by her cruel orphanage headmistress.

 

The others are shocked into silence until Drew adds that her psychiatrist keeps trying to tell her this is all a collection of false memories and that her parents are in jail for securities fraud, while her aunt got her wealth from a now-dead sugar daddy who left his entire estate to her in his will. But she's convinced he's a member of the Illuminati trying to deceive her.

 

On Moleculon, Gorganus is pondering how to deal with the Galactic Sentinels, looking through his collection of amateur sketches of monsters in his throne room. Lechner flies in loudly and clumsily and, once again, blows the papers off of the emperor's desk. Gorganus angrily swats at him like a bug, and, trying to avoid his master's wrath, Lechner swerves off to the side and collides with the wall, sending an enormous, gold-framed portrait of Gorganus crashing down onto his desk. Gorganus stares intently at the portrait and begins to laugh evilly. If you want something done right, he declares, you must do it yourself. He resolves to travel to Earth and fight the Sentinels directly.

 

That night, the teens are each woken in bed by the flashing of their tattoos. Portals open outside each of their houses, and they all sneak out to slip through them. Drew, however, is caught by her aunt, who asks where she's going at this hour. Drew tells her she's off to save the world, but her aunt just shakes her head and tells her she can't stop Pluto on her own. Drew changes her tune and “confesses” she's sneaking out to go get drugs and her aunt tells her to have fun and remember not to snort coke if it's brown, because then it's probably just dirt. She learned that lesson the hard way.

 

The four arrive in Nimbar's lair and are told they've got to face their greatest challenge, even though they're not, even remotely, ready for it. Gorganus has come to Earth and is heading for Washington, DC to force the government of America, then the world, to submit to his will. He tells them how incompetent they are and how little he believes in them, but warns them that should they fail, the universe will inevitably fall to the forces of evil, and so they should try to screw up so hard they accidentally win like last time. The teens, now unified and committed to their cause, give a rousing speech on how they have accepted their responsibility as guardians of the universe and are confident that, working together, they can stop Gorganus in his tracks. Nimbar replies that that would work too, but that they probably shouldn't count on it. Defiantly, the team transforms and teleports into battle.

 

The Sentinels intercept Gorganus just as he enters downtown DC, but they have trouble finding him at first because they're 200 feet tall and he's still normal-sized. Drew finally spots him and attempts to crush him like a bug, but Gorganus grows himself to giant size just as her foot comes down, sending her tumbling into the Washington Monument and causing it to collapse. The other three attempt to come to her rescue, but Gorganus is considerably stronger than them, and actually knows how to fight. As the military and media descend on the scene of the battle, the outmatched super-teens decide to form Knightron.

 

The onlooking crowds cheer as the shining super-Sentinel strikes a heroic pose, and Gorganus rushes into battle. The epic struggle includes repeated laser blasts from Gorganus, which fail to penetrate Knightron's shield. However, the giant warrior of good is still easily outmatched in melee combat, with Gorganus' space armor protecting him from being cut or stabbed by the sword. As Knightron is pummeled, crashing into more national monuments and destroying them, the teens struggle to remember how to activate Megacalibur's laser. They can't figure it out, though, and soon Gorganus has Knightron on the ropes. Knightron manages to knock one of Gorganus' gauntlets off, but he retaliates with incredible force, bringing Knightron literally to its knees. Gorganus grabs Megacalibur's hilt with his ungloved hand... and touches the laser etching with his thumb, causing a huge burst of blue laser energy to surge forth from the blade, sending him flying into the Potomac River, bits of his armor falling off and disintegrating along the way.

 

Knightron stands back up and the crowd cheers again, hailing their savior. The ripples and bubbles in the river subside, with Gorganus apparently either vaporized or drowned. The teens, in their shared mind, remark that they really did it, just as Nimbar described – they screwed up so much that they saved the world! But their celebration is cut short when all of a sudden, Gorganus emerges from the river – his helmet intact, but otherwise completely naked (framed, of course, so as to maintain the PG-13 rating). His exposed, slimy, scaly alien body is absolutely, even comically, ripped, something like Arnold Schwarzenegger in his Mr. Universe days. The crowd scatters and runs as Gorganus roars and declares the Sentinels will never defeat him. The teens' collective minds are shocked, partially by Gorganus' survival, and partially by the realization that Gordon finds the evil emperor sexually attractive.

 

Scrambling to salvage the situation, Knightron fumbles with Megacalibur until the teens find the laser etching again, and they fire off an epic beam of blue light – which bounces, complete with goofy sound effect, right off of Gorganus' enormous pecs. The beam is reflected back onto the sword and vaporizes it, leaving Knightron unarmed. The naked villain rushes up to the space warrior and rips the shield out of its hand, proceeding to comedically bash it over Knightron's head. This is followed up by a series of wrestling moves that leave the super-Sentinel's armor badly dented. Finally, Gorganus gets Knightron in an inescapable hold, charges his fist with evil energy, and slams it into the knight's chest, tearing through the armor and causing the space warrior to disintegrate in a flurry of blue energy.

 

The teens, reduced to their normal size and non-Sentinel forms, tumble to the ground. The giant Gorganus picks them up and clenches them in his fist, delivering a monologue to the gathered press, military, civilians and government officials declaring his victory. Partway through he forgets a word and Swinton, still clutched in his hand, helpfully reminds him of it. The military is ordered to stand down and the president arrives to negotiate with Gorganus, on the condition that he finds something to cover himself up. Gorganus complies by ripping the American flag off of a nearby government building and hanging it over his loins. Back in his lair, Nimbar sighs, saying he knew the teens would “fuck this up.” He reaches offscreen with his tentacle and grabs a briefcase, saying it's a good thing he booked those tickets to the end of the universe in advance.

 

ONE MONTH LATER

 

Gorganus is now the undisputed ruler of Earth and has enslaved most of its population. Giant statues of him are built at the center of every major city, and he holds a rally in DC to announce the first test of his new fleet of space destroyers, to be used to conquer the universe. He and his chosen queen from Earth will board the flagship and lead the armada in the mission. To much mandatory fanfare – enforced by alien mercenaries who point laser guns at chained masses – he and a human woman in a face-obscuring alien gown embark onto the massive spaceship.

 

The fleet amasses near the meteor belt, getting into formation as Gorganus thanks his bride for the tip about Pluto. She removes her veil, revealing her to be Drew's aunt, who remarks that she just knows she'll enjoy being empress of the universe more than she did being goddess of the Amazonians. On a table in the back of the cockpit, the four former super-teens have been shrunk down to the size of mice and put in an energy cage with Lechner, who is telling them a series of awful jokes, leading them to beg for mercy and freedom from Gorganus, who ignores them. Pluto approaches, and the fleet fires in unison, blowing up the dwarf planet in a spectacular explosion of energy.

 

The debris of Pluto sail towards the screen, and the chunks of ice and rock form into the letters for the first part of the credits, lasting about a minute.

 

Then the credits stop and we cut to Gorganus, wearing nothing but his helmet and a speedo, lounging at an alien beach resort with Drew's aunt as a city burns behind him and a statue of himself is hoisted into place atop the alien capitol. He's sipping a drink, complete with little umbrella, through a special straw attachment for his helmet. Drew's aunt asks what he's having, and he replies that it's the blood of his enemies and asks if she wants some. She gladly accepts the offer and proceeds to swallow the rest of the glass in one gulp, burping slightly and giggling.

 

Roll the rest of the credits, THE END.

 

 

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Touching Spirit Bear


Director: Gus Van Sant
Composer: Jon Brion
Genre: Spiritual Drama
Date: December 25th
Studio: Alpha Pictures
Format: Live-action, 2D
Budget: $25 million
Theaters: 2,849
MPAA Rating: R
Running Time: 106 minutes
 
Cast:
Tye Sheridan as Cole Matthews
Chaske Spencer as Garvey
Dakota Goyo as Pete Driscal
David Harbour as the Father
Zahn McClarnon as Edwin
Jenna Fischer as the Mother

 

Plot:



Cole Matthews (Tye Sheridan) is a teenage delinquent from Minneapolis who's facing jail time for committing battery against a student named Peter Driscal (Dakota Goyo). Even though he's facing serious consequences, Cole is unrepentant. His Native American parole officer Garvey (Chaske Spencer) transfers him into a Native American program called Circle Justice. His sentencing will be focused on healing rather than punishment, and the Circle Justice elders tell Cole that he will be staying on an island in the Alaskan Panhandle for a year instead of a correctional facility. Cole is angry about the idea of staying on an island thousands of miles away. However, he doesn't want to spend any jail time, so he agrees to the program.

 

In a flashback to one of Cole's Hearing Circle meetings, Cole's father (David Harbour) says that he and his mother (Jenna Fischer) have devoted their whole lives to their son, but that Cole's just "a bad egg." That's when Cole explodes and yells that if his father were such a devoted parent, he wouldn't be a drunk who whips his kid for no reason. Cole and his father get into a yelling match where his father calls him a liar. Cole asks his mother to back him up, but she doesn't say anything. Then they get to Peter's mother, who starts to cry and talk about how Cole has damaged her son. Peter has speech and coordination problems now, and he wakes up screaming from his nightmares. When it's Peter's turn to speak, he says that someone should smash Cole's head into a sidewalk until he knows what it feels like.

 

Garvey and an elder named Edwin (Zahn McClarnon) take Cole to the island by boat. On the boat, Edwin tells Cole about the Spirit Bear - a spiritual being in the form of an all-white bear. Cole boasts that if he sees the Spirit Bear, he will kill it. Edwin warns against this, telling him the Spirit Bear will attack back. When they arrive to the island, Garvey and Edwin give Cole a shelter to live in. Angry about being so far away from Minneapolis, Cole torches the shelter after Garvey and Edwin leave, and tries to swim over to the next island over in order to escape. He struggles to cross over because the tide keeps pushing him back in until nighttime. Exhausted from swimming, Cole is forced to return to shore and wait until the tide calms down. Cole tries to start a fire but is unable to create a flame. He goes into the forest looking for food, but he runs into Spirit Bear.

 

Cole plans to kill Spirit Bear, but then the bear lunges at him and knocks him down with a blow. Cole collapses as the bear jumps onto him and rakes him with its claws. Then the bear bites him in the leg and lifts him up. Even though Cole manages to stab the bear, it just seems to clamp down tighter and he feels his pelvis crack. The bear continues to attack and Cole feels himself growing weaker and weaker. He screams at it to stop, and Spirit Bear shoves him in the chest. He feels his ribs break. After all that, the bear just stands over Cole and looks at him for a while, then it walks away and leaves him alone. Cole is bleeding badly and can't move. He wonders if he's going to die as he watches the seagulls fight over torn pieces of his own flesh. He doesn't know what to do and how he's going to survive. His arm is obviously broken, and night is quickly approaching. Then he starts throwing up the fish he just ate and ends up passing out from the pain and exhaustion.

 

In a flashback to one of Cole's Hearing Circle meetings, Peter walks into the room with a limp, terrified of Cole as he enters the room. In the meeting, they pass a feather around to express their concerns and thoughts for how to best handle Cole. Cole's dad talks and says that he's going to make sure that Cole never acts out again. Then Peter talks and says that he's there because he is the victim. His speech is slow and he looks nervous.

 

When he wakes up a few hours later, Cole can see his vomit and looks around the island. He's battered with rain as he lies there and tries to stay alive. He watches a sparrow feeding her baby birds in a nest nearby. Because he's so injured, Cole keeps drifting in and out of consciousness. When he wakes up again, he sees Spirit Bear and is terrified, but the bear doesn't come over to finish him off. Cole starts screaming out for someone to help him, but there's no one else around. The rain turns into a full-fledged storm with lightning and thunder, and Cole feels completely helpless as lightning strikes a tree next to him. He looks over and sees the bird nest; the babies are dead.

 

In a flashback to his time at the juvenile detention center, Garvey visits with a bag of groceries. He lays out baking supplies and tells Cole to taste a little bit of everything. Cole says that everything tastes nasty, but Garvey hands him a slice of cake. Cole enjoys the flavor of the cake, and Garvey explains that it's made with all of the ingredients on the table; the things that tasted bad alone are good when combined.

 

Cole drifts out of consciousness again, but when he wakes, he sees a mouse poking around near him. He reaches out and grabs it with one hand. The mouse struggles, but Cole manages to get it into his mouth and starts to eat it. When he looks over, he sees some gulls eating up the food he threw up earlier. He shoos them away and starts eating the chunks of fish. It rains a little, and Cole opens his mouth to take in some of the water. He digs in the soil to spread cool mud on himself and drinks out of a puddle once it forms. He starts to feel a little sharper.

 

A twig snaps, and Cole looks up to see Spirit Bear yet again. He spits at the bear to show him that he won't be afraid. Spirit Bear approaches Cole anyway. It sniffs at him in curiosity as Cole steels himself for a bloody death, but then the bear walks away. Cole falls into a dream. We find out that he broke into a hardware store in Minneapolis, and that Peter reported him to the police. When Cole found out who ratted on him, he brutally beat Peter on the sidewalk, causing Peter to be sent to the emergency room and sending Cole to a detention center. His parents didn't take him home or pay bail. His father's a drinker and an abuser, and his mother never seems to stand up for herself or for her son. After a while, they stopped visiting him in jail because he's so angry. Eventually, the only person who visited was Garvey, who is also the one who signed Cole up for Circle Justice. He told Cole that for this to work, he needs to start the process in his heart.

 

When Cole wakes up again, he can see the world more clearly. He rests his head on some moss and starts to fall asleep again as the seagulls peck at him. Then he feels a strange warmth envelop him; feeling liquid on his lips, he starts to drink it. Someone tells him to "just hold on."  He keeps drinking in the liquid and moans in pain. As Cole drinks, he doesn't see the island at all. Instead, he's wrapped in a blanket in a boat with Garvey and Edwin. Garvey tells him that he needs to "hold on," and that they'll be home soon. There's worried voices in the background. A Tlingit woman is looking over him and is tending to his wounds. She says Cole was attacked by a bear, and Garvey looks horrified. Cole assures him that he's okay.

 

Cole returns to Minneapolis. He recovers, but he isn't confident that he won't serve jail time. He spends more time with his mother, who apologizes for not being there for him in his childhood. His father is arrested for child abuse. In the end, Edwin and Garvey advocate for Cole to return to the island, believing he's had a change of heart after his experience there. After he recovers physically, they take him to the island.

 

This time, Cole takes his time on the island seriously. He does everything that Edwin tells him to do, including soaking in a cold pond every morning and rolling an "ancestor rock" up and down a big hill. He wants to become a better person and do the right thing, but he's upset when he hears that Peter has tried to commit suicide twice. Cole comes up with the idea of inviting Peter to the island in order to learn from it the way Cole himself has. At first, Peter's parents are completely against the idea, but Garvey agrees to take some vacation time to come to the island and chaperone the boys. When Peter arrives, he's scared of Cole and filled with anger. Cole patiently introduces Peter to all of the things that Edwin taught him, and slowly Peter starts to heal, even agreeing to work on his very own totem pole. Peter comes with Cole to soak in the pond and ends up trying to beat him up in retaliation for Cole's attack on him. Cole refuses to fight back, though, and soon Peter stops. Just at that moment, both boys see Spirit Bear in a quiet, reflective moment. At the end, Garvey finds Peter and Cole making a totem pole, carving a circle that has no beginning or end.

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Flower Eyes and Needle Teeth

 

Studio: LagerFilms

Genre: Horror Action

Director: Andres Muschietti

Composer: Benjamin Wallfisch

Based on the short story by HopefullyGoodGamer

Running Time: 100 minutes

Release Date: March 17th

Theater Count: 2897

Budget: $25 million

MPAA Rating: R

 

Cast: 

Cameron Monaghan as Asher

Robin Wright as Asher's mom

Bradley Whitford as News anchor

Unknown Actors for other characters

 

Plot:

TBA

         

         

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The Trail

Release Date: April 28

Studio: Red Crescent Pictures

Genre: Slasher Horror

Director: Adam Wingard

Theater Count: 2,370

Shooting Format: Digital 3K (Red Scarlet-W)

Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1

Image Release Format: 2K DCP

Audio Release Format: 5.1

Production Budget: $2.5 million

MPAA Rating: R for violence, gore, language and terror

Running Time: 88 minutes

Major Cast: Unknown college-aged actors

 

Plot Summary:

Spoiler

 

Six friends on Spring Break - Barry, Judith, Tina, Kirk, Kelly, and Steve - decide to forego the typical beach trip and spend a week camping in the New England woods. Kirk insists that he has the perfect spot where his now-deceased father used to take him every summer. However, upon venturing into the woods with their gear, they find the path to the campsite blocked by a landslide. Kirk, who is in charge of the map since they can't get a cell phone signal and have no dedicated GPS, insists he's found a small trail that will get them to the campsite faster than the usual path would have anyway. With no reason to doubt him, the others follow his lead deep into a very dense, dark part of the forest where they find a very small dirt trail.

 

After walking on this trail for about an hour, a large man wearing a mask made of snakeskin appears in front of them, slamming a hatchet into Kirk's head and killing him. The others panic and run off into the woods, where they quickly become lost. As the sun begins to set, they stumble upon the trail again. They debate whether to get back on it and try to find the way to the campsite, where Kirk had told them there would already be other campers. Judith and Barry decide that if they stay on the trail, the killer will know exactly where they are and be able to track them. They set off into the woods alone, taking the group's only compass with them. Tina, Kelly, and Steve decide to risk getting back on the trail, hoping to find safety at the campsite. However, without the compass, they don't know in which direction to follow the trail, and without the map, they aren't sure they can find the way back to the main road if they end up going the wrong way.

 

Barry and Judith get into an argument over whether they were supposed to be going west or east. Their shouting attracts the attention of the killer, who slices Judith's throat with a hunting knife before stalking a terrified Barry through the woods, eventually catching up to him and stabbing him repeatedly to death. Meanwhile, the other group is proceeding along the trail as night falls and have yet to come across Kirk's body. Kelly takes this as a sign they're going in the right direction, while Steve is more skeptical and worries the killer has simply moved the corpse. As they discuss these possibilities, an arrow flies out from the darkness of the forest and right into Kelly's ear. A second arrow quickly follows, piercing her throat and killing her. The two remaining survivors run for it, narrowly dodging additional arrows. 

 

Eventually they emerge in a clearing at the end of the trail, which turns out to be Kirk's campsite. Several tents are scattered about the area, and Tina and Steve run around making a ruckus trying to wake the campers and ask for help - but all the tents they check are empty. Steve's flashlight falls upon a burnt-out bonfire, at the base of which lie the charred corpses of all the campers. He calls out to Tina, who is still desperately searching the tents - and the killer jumps out of the tent she's looking in and drives a tent spike into her skull. Steve retreats back onto the trail, running for his life and having a few close calls with the killer along the way. He eventually finds the way back to the group's car on the main road, but the killer is waiting for him inside the vehicle and cuts his head off with an axe when he opens the door.

 

 

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Moving Hunchback of Notre Dame forward one week (limited release on June 9th, wide release on June 16th) and Minnie's Treasure Hunt to June 23rd.

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White Hurricane

Release Date: September 29th

Studio: Gold Crescent Pictures

Genre: Period Disaster/Drama

Director: J.A. Bayona

Theater Count: 3,812

Shooting Format: Super 35 film (Arriflex 435), Digital 6.5K (Arri Alexa 65 with IMAX branding) (select sequences)

Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1, 1.90:1 (Entire film, in IMAX only)

Premium Formats: IMAX

Image Release Formats: 2K DCP, 4K DCP, 2K IMAX Digital DCP, 4K IMAX Laser DCP

Audio Release Formats: 5.1, 7.1, Dolby Atmos, IMAX 12-Channel (IMAX Laser DCPs only)

Production Budget: $60 million

MPAA Rating: PG-13 for peril, language, and some violence

Running Time: 117 minutes

Major Cast: Christian Bale, Jamie Foxx, Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller, Christoph Waltz, Sandra Bullock, Halle Berry

 

Plot Summary:

Disaster drama about the fate of two rival fishing boats on Lake Huron during the Great Lakes Storm of 1913, a blizzard with hurricane-force winds and 35-foot waves. Detailed plot in the spoiler below.

 

Spoiler

 

The film begins on November 6th, 1913, in the town of Port Huron, Michigan. Commercial fisherman Lawrence Davies (Christian Bale) and his son Gareth (Chris Hemsworth) return home from a fishing expedition on Lake Huron with a paltry catch. Lawrence's wife, Betty (Sandra Bullock), is heavily pregnant and will give birth before the month's end, as such, the men of the family are aware they are under extra pressure to provide for her and the new baby before the winter sets in. Like the other Great Lakes, Huron stays warm later into the year than most bodies of freshwater. As they dock their boat, the Welshman,  father and son agree to make one last trip out for the year beginning the following day, and to bring enough supplies to stay out on the lake all week if need be in order to net a substantial haul.

 

Docking just after them is a rival fisherman, Alric Stein (Christoph Waltz). The crew of his boat, the Storm Wolf, consists of his son Raymond (Miles Teller) and an impoverished black man named Henry (Jamie Foxx). Like the Davies men, the Storm Wolf crew has had bad luck on their trip. An enraged Alric takes out his frustrations on Henry, first verbally and then physically abusing him as Raymond tries to ignore it. Gareth wants to intervene, but Lawrence tells him that it isn't worth it - the pair have enough animosity with the Steins as it is, and the opinion of his adversary is unlikely to change Alric's mind about Henry.

 

Back in their modest home, Lawrence and Gareth discuss their plans to go fishing once more the next morning with Betty. She's not sure she wants them to leave, complaining of a "bad feeling" she has about the idea. Additionally, a storm is approaching the lakes, which Betty fears will turn into a "November witch," a severe and often deadly tempest known to occur on the Great Lakes. She is convinced, however, when Lawrence reminds her of their need for money to last through the winter and provide for the new child. Besides, Gareth points out, the forecasts say southern Lake Huron, where they fish, will likely see little impact. The pair promise not to venture too far north and to head home if the weather becomes a problem.

 

Meanwhile, in his cramped, filthy apartment, Henry converses with his wife Amanda (Halle Berry). She tends to the wounds he suffered at the hands of Alric as they discuss how they will survive winter. Gareth says he'll try again to get a job at one of the local paper mills. He knows the pay will be less than he'd get from a good run of fishing with the Steins, but at least the pay will be steady. He resolves to inform Alric of his resignation in the morning.

 

In the early morning of November 7th, before sunrise, the Davies men set out onto the lake despite Betty's continued concerns. They are spotted by Raymond Stein, who informs his father. Although they have enough money and food to last them through the winter, the prideful Alric will not tolerate being made to look less dedicated than his rivals and declares the Storm Wolf will set out as well. As Raymond prepares the boat, Alric barges into Henry's apartment and demands he join them on the vessel. When Henry tries to resign, Alric savagely beats him in front of his wife, informing him in very vulgar and racist terms that he "belongs" to the Steins, is worthless and subhuman, and that he won't be able to get any other work in town, as Alric will see to it personally. Reluctantly, a bloodied Henry embarks with the Steins.

 

After both boats have left port, Betty gets a copy of the morning paper. The incoming storm has now been deemed "moderately severe," with a likelihood of dropping temperatures and high winds over the next 24 hours. Out on the lake, however, both boats are seeing little in terms of weather problems other than high, but manageable, winds. Still, their catches are poor and both boats decide to stay out another day. There is tension on the Storm Wolf, but Henry silently obeys Alric's orders and fumes to himself. Alric continues to insult him, and instructs Raymond to watch and learn the proper way to "put the lesser races in their place."

 

The morning of November 8th, flags indicating the imminent arrival of gale force winds are raised at the port. The newspaper states the storm is growing in strength. However, a lull in the winds occurs, tricking both the crews of the Welshman and Storm Wolf into believing that the storm has passed and missed southern Huron as initially predicted. Tensions grow on the Storm Wolf when Alric beats Henry for a minor mistake, and Henry nearly fights back before Alric pulls a knife and threatens to skin him like a fish. That night, while Alric is asleep and the winds are beginning to build back up, Raymond visits Henry and silently helps him tend his wounds. Henry tries to convince Raymond to mutiny and take the ship over from his father, but Raymond pretends not to hear him.

 

On November 9th, the storm has developed into a "November witch" with high, but not remarkable, winds, and large waves. Gareth suggests they should turn back to port, but Lawrence knows that they have not caught enough fish to provide for the baby through the winter, and also suggests docking will be difficult and dangerous in such high winds. He convinces Gareth that the worst of the storm has likely passed and that it will be better to wait out the storm on the lake. Similarly, on the Storm Wolf, the barometer shows an increase in pressure that suggests the storm is winding down, and Alric autonomously decides to stay on the water for another day. When Raymond points out they are low on supplies and didn't need to go fishing in the first place, he suggests it might be wiser to turn back now. His father berates and beats him for his insolence. Raymond and Henry lock eyes during the beating, coming to a silent agreement through their stares.

 

As night approaches, the storm only gets worse. Snow begins to fall and quickly grows heavy. Winds increase in speed and waves become larger and more dangerous. As the men aboard the Welshman struggle to stay afloat, Raymond one again confronts his father, this time demanding to turn back. Alric is enraged by the tone his son takes with him and begins attacking him. The pair struggle along the deck of the unsteady boat, until Raymond leads him into the cabin where Henry is waiting with a knife. Henry slits Alric's throat and the pair toss him overboard. However, when Raymond takes control of the boat, he realizes he lacks the necessary skill to navigate the stormy waters.

 

As the winds reach hurricane strength and the snowstorm becomes a blizzard, reducing visibility to near zero, Betty and Amanda both make their way to the docks in the vain hope their husbands have returned. They are devastated to discover they are still on the lake. An enormous twenty-foot wave crashes into the docks, capsizing some of the boats and nearly sweeping Betty out to sea. Amanda manages to save her and the pair retreat to Betty's house. However, Betty is now suffering from hypothermia and injuries sustained from being smashed down onto the ground by the wave, and is worried she will lose her baby. Amanda does her best to care for her.

 

After sunset, conditions on the lake are unimaginably horrible. Winds are sustained over 70 miles per hour, visibility is near zero, and the waves are impossible to fight. All that the crews of either boat can do to avoid being overturned and sunk is to attempt to keep their vessels straight and avoid being hit lengthwise. The crews of each ship begin to faintly hear the shouts of the other over the tempest, when suddenly the Welshman and the Storm Wolf collide. The crews of both boats scramble to try and patch the holes and tie their boats together to reduce their chances of being capsized. Lawrence calls for Alric's help, and when he doesn't respond, asks Raymond where he is. Raymond can't bring himself to answer, but Gareth notices the blood on Henry. Gareth attacks Henry, but Raymond stops him, pointing out they all need to work together if they want a chance to survive. Gareth demands to know if Raymond had a hand in killing his father, but Henry claims he acted alone. He says he will do his best to save them all, and when they make it back to port he will surrender to the police. Raymond looks like he's going to object for a moment, but changes his mind.

 

Back in town, Betty's condition is rapidly worsening. The storm, however, is too intense to get her to a doctor. Betty, realizing she's dying, tells Amanda that if Lawrence and Gareth perish in the storm, she and Henry can have their house. Amanda assures her that they will be okay, but Betty shakes her head, saying she has accepted that there's little chance her family will be able to make it back to land. Amanda replies that she knows Henry won't make it back either, and that she can't accept the house on her own. She openly ponders suicide, relating how her and Henry's son died as an infant, and how she now has nothing to live for with Henry presumably dead. Suddenly, Betty goes into labor.

 

On the lake, despite the best efforts of all four men, the ships are taking on water and sinking. A twenty-five foot wave sends a much larger, overturned ship careening towards the entwined fishing boats, which the men barely manage to avoid. The next wave knocks Henry overboard, but he manages to clutch onto a railing. Raymond goes to save him, and the wave after that sends both of them off the boat, plunging into the icy waters. The Davies father and son realize they have no chance of staying afloat on their own and retreat to the cabin to pray for Betty and her unborn child.

 

In town, Amanda is desperately trying to deliver Betty's child. Her efforts are intercut with the prayers of the fisherman. The pace of the edits quickens gradually, building to a climax until, all at once, the baby boy is born and a massive, thirty-five foot wave finally sinks the crippled fishing boats. With her dying words, Betty makes Amanda promise to raise her child in her house. Amanda asks for a name for the child, and Betty declares his name will be Lawrence Henry Davies in honor of their fallen husbands. She passes away as the storm rages and the baby wails, Amanda solemnly shutting the dead woman's eyelids and cuddling the infant close for warmth as the electricity cuts out.

 

The film ends with a slideshow of photographs and newspaper reports from the real life storm. Onscreen text explains how the slow forecasting methods of the time made it impossible to predict just how intense the storm would be. Winds frequently gusted over 90 miles per hour, with waves as high as thirty-five feet. The storm lasted over 16 hours and killed more than 250 people, destroying 19 ships and stranding 19 more, with 202 of the deaths occurring on Lake Huron. Snowdrifts around Lake Huron reached four feet in height. Electricity, telephone and telegram services were out for days. Three of the ships lost in the storm were never found. However, the tragedy led to improved weather forecasting and ship construction.

 

 

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Pokémon: The Journey Begins


Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
Cast: Angourie Rice (Stephanie), Isaac Hempstead Wright (Gary Oak), Amy Acker (Mom), Jon Bernthal (Mr. Saturn), Richard Armitage (Mr. Apollo), John Boyega (Brock), Sophie Turner (Misty), Josh Holloway (Lt. Surge), with Tom Hiddleston (Bill), and Bill Nighy (Professor Oak)
Directed By: Shawn Levy
Release Date: 3/24/17
Theater Count: 3544 Theaters
Budget: $120 million
Running Time: 113 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG for fantasy creature violence, mild language, and situations of peril

 

Background: This film draws inspiration from the Pokémon Red/Blue/Yellow Gameboy games and their Fire Red/Leaf Green remakes. The film is set in the Region of Kanto.

 

Plot Summary: Under Renovation
 

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Isolation


Genre: Sci-Fi/Detective Thriller
Cast: Liam Neeson (Arnold Hackett), Madeleine Stowe (Dr. Lorraine Bennett), Josh Charles (Conrad Dunning), Priyanka Chopra (Dr. Ramya Bhatia), Hiroyuki Sanada (Dr. Saito Donakowa), Saïd Taghmaoui (Dr. Stephen Jalal), America Ferrera (Dr. Isabelle Morales), and John Cusack (Administrator Morrow) (Cast is subject to change)
Directed By: Timothy Van Patten
Release Date: 2/24/17
Theater Count: 2874
Running Time: 105 Minutes
Budget: $47 million
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some violence and brief strong language

 

Plot Summary: 2082 C.E.

 

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ReBoot
Release Date: December 22nd
Studio: Rising Crescent Pictures
Genre: Sci-fi CG Family Animation
Director: Dean DeBlois
Theatre Count: 3,914
Premium Formats: 3D, IMAX 3D & Dolby Vision

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Image Release Formats: 2K DCP, 2K 3D DCP, 4K DCP, 4K Dolby Vision DCP, 2K IMAX Digital 3D DCP, 4K IMAX Laser 3D DCP

Audio Release Formats: 5.1, 7.1, Dolby Atmos, IMAX 12-Channel (IMAX Laser DCPs only)

Production Budget: $125 million
MPAA: PG for cartoon violence, peril, and some frightening images
Running Time: 110 minutes
Major Cast: Taylor Kitsch (Bob), Gemma Artenton (Dot), Benedict Cumberbatch (Megabyte), BD Wong (Phong), Levi Miller (Enzo), Brigitte Nielsen (Dixon Green), Dolph Lundgren (Turbo), Seth MacFarlane (Hack), Patrick Warburton (Slash)

Plot Summary:
An adaptation of the classic 1990s Canadian cartoon. Details in the spoiler box below.


 

Spoiler

 

The majority of ReBoot takes place in a virtual city its citizens call "Mainframe," a dense, highly-populated metropolis that represents the hard drive inside a personal computer. It is inhabited primarily by simple, mechanical-looking artificial lifeforms known as "binomes," representing documents, pictures, and other bits of general data. Also living in Mainframe are "sprites," humanoid beings representing programs and important system files or functions. The city is circular in shape, surrounding the central Principal Office, a massive government and military building representing the system processor, BIOS and kernel. The ring surrounding this office is divided into six sectors - Baudway (the commercial, retail and entertainment district), Kits (the residential district), Floating Point Park (a city park), Beverly Bytes (the affluent district), Firewall Street (the financial and business sector), and Giedi Prime (the industrial sector).

 

The story begins, however, on a separate system its denizens refer to as "the supercomputer." It's a powerful system belonging to the company that develops and sells Guardian security programs, where Guardians are trained and malware programs are stored and analyzed. Bob (voice of Taylor Kitsch) is a beta build of a new edition of the Guardian program, undergoing the final stages of his training under another Guardian, Dixon Green (voice of Brigitte Nielsen). Bob stands out among the trainees because of his relatively pacifist attitudes towards viruses and other forms of malware; while the Guardian policy is to delete them on sight unless they need to be quarantined for research, Bob pities them to an extent, claiming it's not their fault they were programmed that way. He hopes to find a way to change their programming to make them useful and peaceful, and is hesitant to delete them. This gets him in a lot of trouble, especially with Turbo (voice of Dolph Lundgren), the leader of the system and Prime Guardian.

 

One day, Bob and Dixon are assigned to guard the quarantined virus Killabyte (no voice, speaks only in synthesized sounds) as he is prepared for analysis. He seems, by all outward indicators, to be a simple, relatively low-threat piece of malware and is only being analyzed as a matter of procedure since there are no records of his type in the Guardian database. Unfortunately, Killabyte turns out to be far more advanced than suspected. Just before the analysis begins, Killabyte escapes from his restraints and begins transforming into a new, more powerful form. Bob and Dixon do their best to contain and fight him, but in the end, Dixon is deleted by the virus after alerting central command to the threat. Killabyte manages to escape into the internet without being captured. 

 

Some weeks later, Bob graduates from the training program and is awarded his Key Tool, the advanced wrist-worn device that grants Guardians access to their most advanced functions. To his shock, he finds that the Key Tool he's given is the one that used to belong to Dixon, which she affectionately called "Glitch." Turbo explains that, in the event of the deletion of a Guardian trainer, their Key Tool is given to whoever they deemed their most promising student. He admits he doesn't know what Dixon saw in Bob, but explains Glitch is his now, for better or worse. Later on that day, Bob and the other new graduates are sent to the Product Distribution Center to be downloaded by customers. It is then that Bob is downloaded onto Mainframe.

 

Upon his arrival in Mainframe, Bob is shocked to find that an entire sector of the city - Giedi Prime, the industrial district - has fallen under the control of a virus called Megabyte (voice of Benedict Cumberbatch). The name is more than enough to stir suspicions in him that this virus is the upgraded form of the one that deleted Dixon. As the system's new Guardian, he is introduced to Phong (voice of BD Wong), Mainframe's ruler and primary process of the operating system. Phong explains that the system containing Mainframe actually has two hard drives and thus, two cities. The secondary hard drive, home to a city called Lost Angles, is where Megabyte began his attempts to take over the system. Through a catastrophic series of events, Lost Angles was almost completely destroyed, the data on the disc becoming corrupted and unusable, leaving the city in ruins. Megabyte has since managed to conquer Giedi Prime by infecting almost all of the binomes living there. He rules the sector from a sinister tower palace he calls Silicon Tor. Bob has been installed to prevent the virus from spreading any further.

 

Bob is given an apartment in Kits and stops for a bite to eat at Dot's Diner in Baudway. There he meets the owner, a sprite named Dot Matrix (voice of Gemma Artenton), who, it turns out, is also the system's COMMAND.COM file. She has voluntarily allowed Phong to remain sole leader of Mainframe, but she is a highly valuable target for any virus as she has powerful abilities to manipulate the system. She also has a little brother, Enzo (voice of Levi Miller), who idolizes Guardians and is incredibly excited to meet Bob. Bob promises to protect them both with his life.

 

It isn't long before Megabyte sends a message to Bob, asking him for a meeting at Silicon Tor. Dot warns him against going, sure that it is a trap. Enzo, however, encourages him to go and blast the virus into data-chunks. Bob decides he will go and hear the virus out, hoping he can be enticed to surrender himself for possible reformatting or otherwise reasoned with. When Bob arrives in Giedi Prime, he is escorted into Silicon Tor by a group of infected binomes fiercely loyal to Megabyte. He tries to ask them about their leader but they refuse to offer any information, stating that he will need to ask the virus himself.

 

Upon their meeting in his throne room, Megabyte greets Bob cordially, expressing a hope they can come to an "understanding." Bob echoes his wish but states they must promise to be honest with one another. Megabyte agrees, and Bob asks whether he is the same virus who deleted Dixon on the supercomputer. Megabyte admits that this is true, but points out it could be seen as an act of self-defense - after all, she wouldn't let him escape without deleting her, and if he didn't escape he knew he would be deleted himself. He apologizes, in a questionably sincere manner, and says he hopes the same won't be true of Bob as he seems "more reasonable." Bob asks him why he destroyed Lost Angles, and Megabyte claims he did no such thing; in fact, it was the overreaction of the city's own defense forces that led to its destruction. Bob is skeptical but Megabyte assures him that it is true - his function, in his own words, is to "corrupt and conquer," and he has no way of conquering that which is destroyed. 

 

Bob informs Megabyte that he's sworn to protect the rest of Mainframe and prevent him from spreading his infection any further. Megabyte reacts indifferently, telling him that he does not really care about Mainframe at all. He casually explains - in the interest of being honest - that he only conquered the industrial sector in order to control the means of production. His real plan is to build an army here in Giedi Prime and use it to return to the supercomputer and conquer it. Bob refuses to allow this and Megabyte tells him that he is, of course, more than welcome to try and stop him. Two of Megabyte's henchmen, the robotic and super-strong but dim-witted duo of Hack (voice of Seth MacFarlane) and Slash (voice of Patrick Warburton), surprise-attack Bob and knock him out.

 

The duo drop off Bob at the border between Baudway and Giedi Prime, where he is found by Dot. He is not seriously injured, but his Key Tool, Glitch, is missing. Dot scolds him for trusting Megabyte, saying that Enzo will be devastated when he finds out what happened. A tear rolls down her cheek, and when Bob asks what she isn't telling him, Dot reveals that her and Enzo's parents were deleted in the destruction of Lost Angles. Bob asks her if she knows what happened there, and she angrily replies that Megabyte destroyed the city. When Bob tells her what Megabyte claims happened, she becomes furious and, while she admits she wasn't there to see it herself, refuses to consider it could be anyone but the virus' fault. Dot refuses to speak to or be near Bob until he makes things right and takes out Megabyte for good. Besides that, Bob knows he needs to act quickly, because if Megabyte is able to infect Glitch, he could access its functions to establish a connection to the supercomputer.

 

Bob heads off on his own back into Giedi Prime, and finds himself far less welcome than he was before. Viral binomes spy on him and track his every move. Inside Silicon Tor, Megabyte is attempting to infect Glitch, though not having any success thanks to its high level of encryption. Hack and Slash inform him that Bob has been seen heading for Silicon Tor, and Megabyte tells them to let him enter but set up an ambush, hoping he can either convince or force Bob to use Glitch himself and open the connection the virus needs.

 

Dot, still angry but somewhat worried that Bob has gone back into Silicon Tor alone, goes to Phong for advice. As she related what happened between her and Bob, Phong admits that Megabyte wasn't completely lying. The virus was on a path of destruction, says Phong, but ultimately it was his own command to the defense programs that accidentally caused the disaster when a risky attack corrupted a critical system process instead of the virus and caused a huge data overload that ruined the disk. Dot launches into as furious and emotionally distraught a tirade as the PG rating allows, and Phong apologizes profusely but says what is done is done, and that now the future must be defended or there will be more tragedies like Lost Angles on systems everywhere. He sends a team of defense binomes to Giedi Prime to locate and assist Bob, and suggests Dot go with them. She is conflicted but ultimately decides to do so. Unfortunately, Enzo has been sneaking around and following her and stows away on the transport vehicle.

 

Inside Silicon Tor, Hack and Slash ambush Bob with a unit of viral binomes. At first Bob is overwhelmed, especially without the use of his Key Tool, but he ultimately takes advantage of Hack and Slash's stupidity and manages to confuse them into bungling the whole operation. The ambush attempt is thrown into chaos and Bob escapes, making his way deeper into the palace. He eventually finds and confronts Megabyte, demanding Glitch back. Megabyte tries to talk him into submission, saying that he can create harmony across all systems by ruling them all himself, and that if the supercomputer is allowed to continue operating the way it is, he and all malware programs will be deleted. Bob questions his motives, saying he doubts that Megabyte, with his current viral programming, will be anything like a benevolent ruler. Megabyte asks him if the viral binomes in Giedi Prime seemed unhappy to him, and while Bob admits they are not unhappy, exactly, they have been robbed of their rights to lead their own lives. Bob makes Megabyte a counter-offer, that if he surrenders now he will protect Megabyte from the other Guardians and work to find a way to "repair" his programming. Megabyte declares that he is exactly what he was meant to be, and that Bob is not in a position to bargain.

 

The two engage in a battle, with Megabyte proving incredibly strong and surprisingly agile. In the middle of this altercation, the vehicle containing Dot, Enzo, and the defense binomes blasts its way into Silicon Tor. As she and the binomes disembark, Dot discovers Enzo hiding in the rear of the vehicle and angrily warns him to stay inside. The binomes rush into battle to support Bob, but Megabyte easily evades their weapons fire and infects them, turning them to his side. Dot offers to stay and help Bob, but he tells her to sneak out and find Glitch. She does so but is spotted and pursued by Hack and Slash. Bob is forced to run and hide from Megabyte and his infected binomes.

 

Dot discovers the lab where Megabyte was attempting to infect Glitch, but the Key Tool is locked in a password-protected container. Hack and Slash arrive and attempt to capture her. She feigns surrender but manages to trick the two into revealing the password. She retrieves Glitch and scares the pair off by threatening them with it, even though she has no idea how to actually use it. She runs back to where Megabyte and Bob are fighting.

 

Megabyte, unable to pin down Bob, spots the vehicle with Enzo inside. He attacks the vehicle and pulls the child out, threatening to delete him unless Bob surrenders and opens the connection to the supercomputer for him. When Bob begs for Enzo's life, asking how Megabyte could justify killing him, the virus asks how Bob can justify letting the Guardians continue to delete viruses en masse. Bob accuses Megabyte of not really caring about other viruses, and he replies that it doesn't matter whether or not he cares about them as long as Bob does. Enzo tells Bob not to surrender, but it's clear from Bob's expressions that he's about to, thinking he has no other choice.

 

That's when Dot arrives, tossing Glitch to Bob and demanding he save Enzo, whatever it takes. Bob agrees, and with the advanced functions Glitch grants him access to, he is able to free Enzo from Megabyte's clutches and gains the upper hand in battle. Ultimately, Bob manages to quarantine Megabyte, trapping him in an energy orb. Megabyte says he won't beg for his life, but that it will be up to Bob to live with whatever decision he makes. Bob asks Dot if she wants revenge on the virus, and she replies that she does, but that she knows he didn't really directly delete her parents, and that she's no longer sure if deleting him is the best answer. Bob decides to leave Megabyte in quarantine until he agrees to rehabilitation, and the group departs Silicon Tor.

 

With support from Phong, Dot, and the local defense programs, Bob oversees the installation of a powerful firewall surrounding Silicon Tor, isolating it from the rest of Mainframe save for a single highly-secured access point where food and other essentials can be provided to the viral residents. Lines of communication remain open with Megabyte in the Principal Office so that negotiations for his surrender and potential use as an antiviral reformatting test subject can continue, however, he is cut off from his infected binomes. Though they are unwilling to leave Giedi Prime, other binomes and sprites are allowed in and the reclamation and re-development of the sector begins, with work starting on a "cure" for the infected programs. The movie ends with Phong asking Bob if he really believes there's a way for viruses to peacefully co-exist with other programs. Bob replies that he doesn't know for sure, but that it would be better than eternal war - and that makes it worth trying.

 

 

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