The Movies You Should Watch Over Thanksgiving Weekend

The Movies You Should Watch Over Thanksgiving Weekend

Lady Bird

Release Date 2017
Rating : 7.4 Production Companies: Scott Rudin Productions, A24 Director: Greta Gerwig, Jan McWilliams, Jonas Spaccarotelli Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts

Summary: Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her upbringing are questioned and tested as she plans to head off to college.

Thor: Ragnarok

Release Date 2017
Rating : 7.9 Production Companies: Marvel Studios, Marvel Entertainment Director: Taika Waititi, Tom Hooper, Vincent Lascoumes Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett

Summary: Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok, the destruction of his home-world and the end of Asgardian civilization, at the hands of a powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela.

Coco

Release Date 2017
Rating : 8.4 Production Companies: Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Director: Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina Stars: Anthony Gonzalez, Gael García Bernal, Benjamin Bratt

Summary: Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events. Along the way, he meets charming trickster Hector, and together, they set off on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel's family history.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Release Date 2017
Rating : 8.1 Production Companies: Fox Searchlight Pictures, Blueprint Pictures Director: Peter Kohn, Martin McDonagh, Jeanette McGrath Stars: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell

Summary: After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.

Darkest Hour

Release Date 2017
Rating : 7.4 Production Companies: Working Title Films, Perfect World Pictures Director: Joe Wright, Dan Channing-Williams, Gayle Dickie Stars: Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Mendelsohn

Summary: In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.

Call Me by Your Name

Release Date 2017
Rating : 7.8 Production Companies: Sony Pictures Classics, Frenesy Film Director: Manuela D'Ovidio, Dominique Delany, Paolo Sponzilli Stars: Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg

Summary: In 1980s Italy, a relationship begins between seventeen-year-old teenage Elio and the older adult man hired as his father's research assistant.

The Florida Project

Release Date 2017
Rating : 7.6 Production Companies: Cinereach, Freestyle Picture Company Director: Sean Baker, Emily Pendas, Joe McDougall Stars: Brooklynn Prince, Bria Vinaite, Willem Dafoe

Summary: The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.