VOD Tuesday
/It's not Friday, heck it's not even hump day but we've got a few movies to help the whole family get through the work/school week.
The Great Gatsby
(available before Netflix/Redbox
Drama
PG-13 114 Minutes
Directed by Baz Luhrmann (Strictly Ballroom, Romeo and Juliet, and Moulin Rouge!)
“The Great Gatsby” follows Fitzgerald-like, would-be writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz and bootleg kings. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her philandering, blue-blooded husband, Tom Buchanan. It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super-rich, their illusions, loves and deceits. As Nick bears witness, within and without the world he inhabits, he pens a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams and high-octane tragedy, and holds a mirror to our own modern times and struggles.
Academy Award® nominee DiCaprio (“Blood Diamond,” “Aviator”) plays Jay Gatsby, with Tobey Maguire starring as Nick Carraway; Joel Edgerton and Oscar® nominee Carey Mulligan (“An Education”) as Tom and Daisy Buchanan; Isla Fisher and Jason Clarke as Myrtle and George Wilson; and newcomer Elizabeth Debicki as Jordan Baker. Indian film legend Amitabh Bachchan will plays the role of Meyer Wolfsheim.
Pain & Gain
Action
R 89 Minutes
Directed by Michael Bay (Transformers, The Island, Bad Boys)
Michael Bay’s “hilarious crime comedy Pain & Gain is GoodFellas on steroids.”* When a group of personal trainers (Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson and Anthony Mackie) decide to steal the American Dream, they get caught up in a criminal enterprise that goes horribly wrong. Now, living large will take everything they’ve got in the unbelievable true story that critics are calling “outrageously entertaining.”**
* Kyle Smith, NEW YORK POST
** Marlow Stern, NEWSWEEK
Peeples
Comedy
PG-13 94 Minutes
Directed by Tina Gordon Chism
Staring: Craig Robinson; Kerry Washington; David Alan Grier; S. Epatha Merkerson; Tyler Williams; and Melvin Van Peebles.
Tyler Perry Presents Peeples centers around the Peeples, a well-off East Coast family celebrating their annual reunion for Moby Dick Day – a Peeples family tradition at Sag Harbor in the Hamptons. Their weekend is interrupted when Wade Walker (Robinson), the fiance of their daughter Grace (Washington) crashes to propose marriage.
Super Buddies
Family
G 120 Minutes
Directed by Robert Vince (Snow Buddies, Santa Paws 2, Spooky Buddies)
Watch the fur fly as a new breed of superhero is born in Disneys fun-filled epic adventure. An ordinary day at Fernfield Farms turns extraordinary when Budderball, Mudbud, B- Dawg, Buddha and Rosebud discover mysterious rings that grant them each a unique superpower. Before you can say,deg;Buddies, assemble; the pups unleash their amazing abilities and race to the rescue when a shape-shifting bully from outer space threatens the planet.
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