HOW DO YOU KNOW
Writer/director James L. Brooks (
Broadcast News
,
As Good as it Gets
) spins his interpersonal romantic dramedy web again in this study of a woman (Reese Witherspoon) who finds herself trying to decide between two men in her life (Paul Rudd and Owen Wilson).
Opens Dec. 17
.
THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL
Jim Henson’s son Brian directed this 1992 adaptation of Charles Dickens’ holiday workhorse populated by the Muppets’ usual suspects.
TRON: LEGACY
Nearly 30 years after Jeff Bridges starred as a young programmer who gets trapped inside of a computer, he returns for this sequel of the 1982 Walt Disney movie that has become a cult item more for its prescient ideas than for its cinematic experience. For
Tron: Legacy
Garrett Hedlund stars as Sam, the son of Bridges’ Kevin Flynn, who has been missing since the original. Sam somehow ends up having to venture inside of a computer to search and fight for his father. Joseph Kosinski makes his feature film debut behind the camera with this update.
Opens Dec. 17.
THE TEMPEST
Spectacle maven Julie Taymor switches up the gender roles for her adaptation of Shakespeare’s grand play, with dame Helen Mirren starring as the exiled duchess Prospera, Felicity Jones as her daughter Miranda, and Djimon Hounsou as the canny Caliban. There are still images from her 1999
Titus
we haven’t been able to shake, and Peter Greenaway’s 1991
Prospero's Books
really changed the visual panache level for
Tempest
adaptations, so we’re a little curious to see how this one plays out.
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Opens Dec. 17.