From Up on Poppy Hill

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(2011)

Genre: Animation/Drama

Director: Goro Miyazaki

Writers: Tetsurô Sayama, Hayao Miyazaki, Keiko Niwa, Chizuru Takahashi

Producers: Nobuo Kawakami, Kathleen Kennedy, Robyn Klein, Frank Marshall, Tetsurô Sayama, Toshio Suzuki, Chizuru Takahashi, Geoffrey Wexler

Synopsis: The story centers on an innocent romance beginning to bud between Umi and Shun, two high school kids caught up in the changing times. Japan is picking itself up from the devastation of World War II and preparing to host the 1964 Olympics - and the mood is one of both optimism and conflict as the young generation struggles to throw off the shackles of a troubled past. While the children work together to save a dilapidated Meiji era club house from demolition, their tentative relationship begins to blossom. But - in an unexpected twist that parallels what the country itself is facing - a buried secret from their past emerges to cast a shadow on the future and pull them apart. -- (Written by Independent Pictures)

Cast:

• Sarah Bolger
• Anton Yelchin
• Jamie Lee Curtis
• Bruce Dern
• Christina Hendricks
• Ron Howard
• Chris Noth
• Aubrey Plaza

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I Don't Know How She Does It

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(2011)

Genre: Comedy

Director: Douglas McGrath

Writers: Aline Brosh McKenna, Allison Pearson

Producers: Scott Ferguson, Donna Gigliotti, Matt Landon, Allison Pearson, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein

Synopsis: Sarah Jessica Parker, Greg Kinnear, Pierce Brosnan, Olivia Munn and Christina Hendricks star in I Don't Know How She Does It, a comedy from director Douglas McGrath (Emma, Infamous) and producer Donna Gigliotti (The Reader, Let Me In). Based on the critically acclaimed bestseller by Allison Pearson, I Don't Know How She Does It follows a Boston-based working mother trying desperately to juggle marriage, children, and a high-stress job. -- (C) (Written by Weinstein)

Cast:

• Sarah Jessica Parker
• Pierce Brosnan
• Kelsey Grammer
• Greg Kinnear
• Christina Hendricks
• Seth Meyers
• Olivia Munn
• Busy Philipps
• Jessica Szohr

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Drive

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(2011)

Genre: Drama/Thriller

Director: Nicolas Winding Refn

Writer: Hossein Amini, James Sallis

Producers: Frank Capra III, Garrick Dion, David Lancaster, Bill Lischak, Michael Litvak, Linda McDonough, John Palermo, Marc Platt, Gigi Pritzker, Chris Ranta, Adam Siegel, James Smith, Jeffrey Stott, Gary Michael Walters

 

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Synopsis: A Hollywood stunt performer who moonlights as a wheelman discovers that a contract has been put on him after a heist gone wrong. (Written by IMDb Editors)

Cast:

• Ryan Gosling
• Carey Mulligan
• Christina Hendricks
• Ron Perlman

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