76% (3)  The Brothers McMullen  98 min,  R,  [Comedy, Drama, Romance]  [Edward Burns]  [15 Nov 1995]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 66%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 89%,   Metacritic: 73%,   External Reviews
Awards:  4 wins & 1 nomination.
Actors:  Catharine Bolz, Connie Britton, Edward Burns, Jack Mulcahy, Maxine Bahns, Michael McGlone, Shari Albert
Writer:  Edward Burns
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  English    Country:  USA
Plot:  This angst-filled tale of three Irish-Catholic brothers explores men's relationships with women. Three different situations are set up on parallel plotlines, with each brother facing a different kind of crisis. Their common bond as family, as well as close lifelong friends, allows them to express their feelings frankly and intimately, as they talk and discuss their concerns among each other. Jack finds himself in a marriage gone stale and under pressure to start a family that he does not yet feel ready for. Barry, dedicated to his film career and almost pathologically averse to any type of commitment in a relationship, is suddenly artistically successful and finds true love, both for the first time and both pulling him in opposite directions. Patrick is torn between his love for his religion and ethnic heritage and his love for Susan, his longtime Jewish girlfriend. Ultimately, they are all asked to resist temptation of one sort or another, with various poignant outcomes.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Shot on weekends over an eight-month period with practically no budget, writer/director/producer/actor Edward Burns' first feature is a family drama centering on the tumultuous love lives of three small-town, Irish-American brothers. Burns stars as Barry, the middle child who finds himself needing a place to stay and moves in with big brother Jack (Jack Mulcahy). Despite being seemingly happily married to Molly (Connie Britton), Jack gives in to temptation and begins having a sexual affair. All the while, devout-Catholic baby brother Patrick (Mike McGlone) faces an ongoing struggle to deal with the religious leanings of the women in his life. The Brothers McMullen premiered at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival, where it was at the center of a fierce bidding war.
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75% (3)  Professor Marston and the Wonder Women  108 min,  R,  [Biography, Drama]  [Angela Robinson]  [13 Oct 2017]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 71%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 87%,   Metacritic: 68%,   External Reviews
Awards:  6 nominations.
Actors:  Bella Heathcote, Connie Britton, Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall
Writer:  Angela Robinson
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb  Website     Language:  English    Country:  USA
Plot:  detail the unconventional life of Dr. William Marston, the Harvard psychologist and inventor who helped invent the modern lie detector test and created Wonder Woman in 1941. Marston was in a polyamorous relationship with his wife Elizabeth, a psychologist and inventor in her own right, and Olive Byrne, a former student who became an academic. This relationship was key to the creation of Wonder Woman, as Elizabeth and Olive's feminist ideals were ingrained in the character from her creation. Marston died of skin cancer in 1947, but Elizabeth and Olive remained a couple and raised their and Marston's children together. The film is said to focus on how Marston dealt with the controversy surrounding Wonder Woman's creation.
Rotten Tomatoes:   In a superhero origin tale unlike any other, the film is the incredible true story of what inspired Harvard psychologist Dr. William Moulton Marston to create the iconic Wonder Woman character in the 1940's. While Marston's feminist superhero was criticized by censors for her 'sexual perversity', he was keeping a secret that could have destroyed him. Marston's muses for the Wonder Woman character were his wife Elizabeth Marston and their lover Olive Byrne, two empowered women who defied convention: working with Marston on human behavior research -- while building a hidden life with him that rivaled the greatest of superhero disguises.
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72% (3)  The Land of Steady Habits  98 min,  TV-MA,  [Comedy, Drama]  [Nicole Holofcener]  [14 Sep 2018]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 62%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 86%,   Metacritic: 71%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Ben Mendelsohn, Connie Britton, Charlie Tahan, Thomas Mann
Writer:  Nicole Holofcener, Ted Thompson (based on the novel by)
External Links:  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb     Language:  English    Country:  USA
Plot:  Anders Hill, long ensconced in "the land of steady habits"-the affluent hamlets of Connecticut that dot the commuter rail line-is finally ready to reap the rewards of a sensible life. Into his mid fifties and newly retired, his grown son's college tuitions paid in full, Anders decides he's had enough of steady habits: he leaves his wife, buys a condo, and waits for freedom to transform him. Stripped of the comforts of his previous identity, Anders embarks on a clumsy, and heartbreaking journey to reconcile his past with his present.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Writer/director Nicole Holofcener (Enough Said, Friends with Money) brings us a drama about parenting, loss and the consequences of our self-destructive behavior. The story features a deeply flawed male protagonist whose tragic mistakes impact and inform the complex relationships in his life. Far from a recognizable tale of a middle-aged rake in crisis, this is an emotionally resonant portrait of a fractured family explored by one of our most keenly observant directors. Feeling trapped in the stifling, wealthy enclave of Westport, Connecticut, Anders Hill (Ben Mendelsohn) retires from his job in finance and leaves his wife (Edie Falco) in the hopes that it will renew his lust for life. However, he's quickly faced with the startling reality of his choices; he spends his days looking for things to decorate his empty shelves, sleeping with strangers and feeling terribly lost. Missing his ex-wife and on the outs with his troubled 27-year-old son (Thomas Mann), Anders befriends a drug-addicted teen (Charlie Tahan), sending him down a path of reckless and of deeply regrettable behavior. His shameful actions cause him to question who he is as a father and, ultimately, who he is as a person. Adapting her screenplay from Ted Thompson's 2014 novel, The Land of Steady Habits also stars Connie Britton, Elizabeth Marvel and Bill Camp.
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67% (3)  Beatriz at Dinner  82 min,  R,  [Comedy, Drama]  [Miguel Arteta]  [09 Jun 2017]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 61%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 74%,   Metacritic: 68%,   External Reviews
Awards:  2 wins & 8 nominations.
Actors:  Connie Britton, Jay Duplass, John Lithgow, Salma Hayek
Writer:  Mike White
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb  Website     Language:  English, Spanish    Country:  USA
Plot:  A holistic medicine practitioner attends a wealthy client's dinner party after her car breaks down.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Beatriz (Salma Hayek), an immigrant from a poor town in Mexico, has drawn on her innate kindness to build a career as a health practitioner in Los Angeles. Doug Strutt (John Lithgow) is a cutthroat, self-satisfied billionaire. When these two opposites meet at a dinner party, their worlds collide and neither will ever be the same.
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60% (3)  Seeking a Friend for the End of the World  101 min,  R,  [Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi]  [Lorene Scafaria]  [22 Jun 2012]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 67%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 56%,   Metacritic: 59%,   External Reviews
Awards:  3 nominations.
Actors:  Adam Brody, Connie Britton, Keira Knightley, Melanie Lynskey, Steve Carell
Writer:  Lorene Scafaria
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb  Website     Language:  English    Country:  USA
Plot:  An asteroid named "Matilda" is on a collision course towards Earth and in three weeks the world will come to an absolute end. What would you do if your life and the world were doomed? One man decides to spend his time searching for his long lost love from high school during the coming catastrophe.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Seeking a Friend for the End of the World stars Golden Globe Award winner Steve Carell and Academy Award nominee Keira Knightley and is the feature directorial debut of screenwriter Lorene Scafaria. Set in a too-near future, the movie explores what people will do when humanity's last days are at hand. As the respective journeys of Dodge (Mr. Carell) and Penny (Ms. Knightley) converge, the two spark to each other and their outlooks - if not the world's - brighten. -- (C) Focus
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51% (3)  American Ultra  96 min,  R,  [Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi]  [Nima Nourizadeh]  [21 Aug 2015]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 61%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 43%,   Metacritic: 50%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Connie Britton, Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Topher Grace
Writer:  Max Landis
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb  Website     Language:  English, Mandarin    Country:  USA, Switzerland
Plot:  Small-town stoner Mike Howell (Jesse Eisenberg) spends most of his time getting high and writing a graphic novel about a superhero monkey. What Mike doesn't know is that he was trained by the CIA to be a lethal killing machine. When the agency targets him for termination, his former handler activates his latent skills, turning the mild-mannered slacker into a deadly weapon. Now, the utterly surprised Mike must use his newfound abilities to save himself and his girlfriend from getting wasted by the failed test subjects that are sent after him by the CIA.
Rotten Tomatoes:   American Ultra is a fast-paced action comedy about Mike (Eisenberg), a seemingly hapless and unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend, Phoebe (Stewart), is suddenly turned upside down. Unbeknownst to him, Mike is actually a highly trained, lethal sleeper agent. In the blink of an eye, as his secret past comes back to haunt him, Mike is thrust into the middle of a deadly government operation and is forced to summon his inner action-hero in order to survive. (C) Lionsgate
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40% (3)  Angels Sing  87 min,  PG,  [Comedy, Drama, Family]  [Tim McCanlies]  [10 Mar 2013]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 59%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 23%,   Metacritic: 39%,   External Reviews
Actors:  Chandler Canterbury, Connie Britton, Fionnula Flanagan, Harry Connick Jr.
Writer:  Lou Berney (screenplay by), Turk Pipkin (based on the novel by)
External Links:  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb  Website     Language:  English    Country:  USA
Plot:  As a child, Michael Walker wished every day could be Christmas. That is, until a tragic accident crushed his holiday spirit. Thirty years later, Michael still can't muster any joy for the holidays, despite encouragement from his playful wife and well-intentioned parents. But when his young son faces a tragedy, Michael needs to make amends with his past. A mysterious man named Nick gives Michael a gift and instills in him the courage to find the joy that he lost.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Harry Connick, Jr. stars as Michael Walker, who, as a child, wished every day was Christmas. That is, until a tragic accident crushed his holiday spirit. Thirty years later, Michael still can't muster any joy for Christmas, despite encouragement from his playful wife (Connie Britton) and well intentioned parents (Kris Kristofferson and Fionnula Flanagan). But when his young son (Chandler Canterbury) faces a tragedy, Michael needs to make amends with his past. A mysterious man named Nick (Willie Nelson) gives Michael a gift that instills in him the courage to find the Christmas joy that he lost. (c) Official Site
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