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Featured Films This Week at Apex Theaters
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A CHRISTMAS
CAROL 3-D (PG)
-Baxter Ave Theatres
Disney's A Christmas Carol, a multi-sensory thrill ride
re-envisioned by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Robert
Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Back to the Future, The Polar
Express), captures the fantastical essence of the classic
Dickens tale in a groundbreaking 3-D motion picture event.
Ebenezer Scrooge (Jim Carrey) begins the Christmas holiday
with his usual miserly contempt, barking at his faithful clerk
(Gary Oldman) and his cheery nephew (Colin Firth). But when
the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come take him
on an eye-opening journey revealing truths Old Scrooge is
reluctant to face, he must open his heart to undo years of ill
will before it's too late. Also starring Robin Wright Penn,
Cary Elwes and Bob Hoskins.
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STILL WALKING
(NR) - Village 8
Theatres
LOUISVILLE EXCLUSIVE
Ryota is the
40-year-old son of the Yokoyama family. He has recently
married a widow, who is joining him on a rare visit home. Only
his elderly parents now live in the house, which once doubled
as a flourishing medical clinic. The annex, a medical
examining room still boasting a wall of pharmaceuticals,
remains unchanged, though the patriarchal doctor has retired.
Despite the unchanged outward appearances, everything has
slightly aged. Ryota and his siblings have gathered with their
parents to remember Junpei, the eldest son, who drowned while
saving another 15 years earlier. Writer/director Hirokazu
Kore-eda's characters come sharply to life, exchanging
dialogue that both delights and tugs at your heart. As the
film unfolds, brimming with compelling realism, it reveals the
modest joys and gentle sorrows that accompany the realization
that life must inevitably move on. The Yokoyamas are a typical
dysfunctional family, bonded by love as well as resentments
and secrets. With a subtle balance of gentle humor and wistful
sorrow, Kore-eda (Nobody Knows, After Life, Maborosi)
portrays just how difficult, and exactly how precious, family
can be. (Fully subtitled)
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PRECIOUS (R)
-Baxter Ave Theatres
Set in
Harlem in 1987, Precious is a vibrant, honest and
resoundingly hopeful film about the human capacity to grow and
overcome. Claireece "Precious" Jones (Gabourey Sidibe) is a
16-year-old African-American girl born into a life no one
would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent
father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother (Mo'Nique),
a poisonously angry woman who abuses her emotionally and
physically. School is a place of chaos, and Precious has
reached the ninth grade with good marks and an awful secret:
she can neither read nor write. Precious may sometimes be
down, but she is never out. Beneath her impassive expression
is a watchful, curious young woman with an inchoate but
unshakeable sense that other possibilities exist for her.
Threatened with expulsion, Precious is offered the chance to
transfer to an alternative school, Each One/Teach One. In the
literacy workshop taught by the patient yet firm Ms. Rain
(Paula Patton), Precious begins a journey that will lead her
from darkness, pain and powerlessness to light, love and
self-determination. Winner of three awards at the 2009
Sundance Film Festival, including the Grand Jury Prize and
Audience Award in the U.S. Dramatic Competition. Co-starring
Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd and Lenny Kravitz.
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AN EDUCATION (PG13)
-Baxter Ave Theatres
An
Education is the story of a teenage girl's coming-of-age
set in 1961 London, a city caught between the drab, post-war
1950s and the glamorous, more liberated decade to come. Jenny
(Carey Mulligan) stands on the brink of becoming a woman: a
brilliantly witty and attractive 16-year-old whose suburban
life is about to be blown apart by the utterly unsuitable
30-something David (Peter Sarsgaard). Urbane and witty, David
manages to charm her conservative parents Jack (Alfred Molina)
and Marjorie (Cara Seymour). David introduces Jenny to a
glittering new world of classical concerts and late-night
suppers with his attractive friend and business partner, Danny
(Dominic Cooper) and Danny's girlfriend, the beautiful but
vacuous Helen (Rosamund Pike). Just as Jenny's family's
long-held dream of getting their brilliant daughter into
Oxford seems within reach, Jenny is tempted by another kind of
life. Written by Nick Hornby (About a Boy, High Fidelity)
and directed by Lone Scherfig
(Italian for Beginners).
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2012 (PG13)
-Baxter Ave Theatres
2012 is an epic
science-fiction adventure about a global cataclysm that brings
an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the
survivors. Never before has a date in history been so
significant to so many cultures, so many religions, scientists
and governments. Starring John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor,
Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover and
Woody Harrelson. Directed and co-written by Roland Emmerich
(The Day After Tomorrow,
Independence Day).
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COCO BEFORE
CHANEL (PG13)
-Village 8 Theatres
A
little girl who is sent with her sister to an orphanage in the
heart of France, who waits in vain every Sunday for her father
to come for her… A cabaret performer with a weak voice who
sings to an audience of drunken soldiers… A humble seamstress,
who stitches hems at the back of a provincial tailor's shop… A
young, skinny courtesan, to whom protector Étienne Balsan (Benoît
Poelvoorde) offers a safe haven, amongst the idle and
decadent… A woman in love who knows she will never be anyone’s
wife, refusing marriage even to Arthur 'Boy' Capel (Alessandro
Nivola), the man who returned her love… A rebel who finds the
conventions of her time oppressive, and instead dresses in her
lovers' clothes… This is the story of Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel
(Audrey Tautou, Amélie), who begins her life as a
headstrong orphan, and through an extraordinary journey
becomes the legendary couturier who embodied the modern woman
and became a timeless symbol of success, freedom and style.
(Fully subtitled)
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THE INVENTION OF
LYING
(PG13) -Village
8 Theatres
From
Ricky Gervais, the award-winning creator and star of the
original BBC series "The Office" and HBO's "Extras," comes a
romantic comedy which takes place in an alternate reality
where lying—even the concept of a lie—does not exist.
Everyone—from politicians to advertisers to the man and woman
on the street—speaks the truth and nothing but the truth with
no thought of the consequences. But when a down-on-his-luck
loser named Mark (Gervais) suddenly develops the ability to
lie, he finds that dishonesty has its rewards. In a world
where every word is assumed to be the absolute truth, Mark
easily lies his way to fame and fortune. With the entire world
now hanging on his every word, there is only one thing Mark
has not been able to lie his way into: the heart of the woman
he loves (Jennifer Garner). Co-starring Jonah Hill, Louis C.K.,
Jeffrey Tambor, Fionnula Flanagan, Rob Lowe and Tina Fey.
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