Eleanor the Great

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.

Runtime

1h 42m

Director

Sofia Coppola

Cast

Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.

Runtime

2h 9m

Director

Fernando Meirelles

Cast

Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Phellipe Haagensen

Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life.

Runtime

1h 53m

Director

Marc Forster

Cast

Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman

Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to adapt "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orlean, Kaufman's life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman, Orlean's...

Runtime

1h 55m

Director

Spike Jonze

Cast

Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she...

Runtime

2h 7m

Director

James Mangold

Cast

Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Whoopi Goldberg