Thanksgiving at the theater: Moves to see during break
Written by Amanda Pretulac, Nov 22, 2011, 0 Comments
This Thanksgiving, skip the football and take your loved ones out to see a movie instead. Several movie releases are kicking off the holiday season on Nov. 23.
Get lost in a mystery “Hugo,” the perfect film for all ages. The film is based on the book “The Invention of Hugo Cabret” by Brian Selznick. Set in a Paris train station, a young orphan is wrapped up in a mess of secrets. The film, directed by Martin Scorsese, stars Ben Kingsely, Sacha Baron Cohen, Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz and Emily Mortimer.
The thriller “A Dangerous Method” deals with the relationship between psychiatrists Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, and their relationship with psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein. Played by Keira Knightley, Spielrein spent about a year in a mental hospital near Zurich in 1904, where she met Jung, who worked there at the time. Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender star in this highly anticipated film.
According to IMDB.com’s Trivia, when the Muppets are not starring in a film they are simply placed in a large bed to go to sleep. “One day a group of young schoolchildren visited the set and, when the characters didn’t respond to them, they immediately began sobbing and were certain that the characters were dead,” the site says.
This rumor must be fasle, because the Muppets are very much alive this fall in their new movie starring Kermit, Miss Piggy, Gonzo, Fozzie Bear, Sam Eagle, Marvin Suggs, and Beaker. (They also have some help from Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper and Rashida Jones to save their theater.)
For fans of style icon Marilyn Monroe, the movie “My Week with Marilyn” focuses on the actress’ life during filming of “The Prince and the Showgirl.” Michelle Williams is a picture-perfect Marilyn in the film, which also stars Eddie Redmayne, Julia Ormond and Kenneth Branagh.
