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This whole thing started with a mission: support female led films on opening weekend whenever possible.* If you want to read more about why, you can read that post here.
The fall is one of my favorite times to go to the theaters. I don’t know why but it seems so cozy to put on a sweater, grab your favorite date and hit up the theaters for a popcorn and a cozy, public snuggle in the dark. If you want to expose your date to some ladies opening this weekend… then here’s your picks. However, one thing to note: there are a few items on this list that are questionable in their nature. (The Final Girls and Jem and the Holograms are important call-outs… we shall see how friendly to women they really are when they open.)
OCTOBER 2ND:
Freeheld (Starring Julianne Moore and Ellen Page)
Logline: Diagnosed with terminal cancer, decorated New Jersey detective Laurel Hester (Julianne Moore) wishes to leave her pension benefits to domestic partner Stacie Andree (Ellen Page). Denied by local county officials, Laurel receives help from hard-nosed colleague Dane Wells (Michael Shannon) and activist Steven Goldstein (Steve Carell), who unite to rally fellow police officers and ordinary citizens to support the couple’s fight for equality.
He Named Me Malala (Starring Malala)
Logline: After the Taliban tries to kill her for speaking out on behalf of girls’ education, Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai emerges as a leading advocate for children’s rights and the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
Addicted to Fresno (Directed by Jamie Babbit - Written by Karey Dornetto - Starring Judy Greer and Natasha Lyonne)
Logline: Follows the lives two co-dependent sisters who work as hotel maids in Fresno.
OCTOBER 9TH:
Big Stone Gap (Written and directed by Adriana Trigiani and Starring Ashley Judd)
Logline: In a small town nestled in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, self-proclaimed spinster Ave Maria Mulligan finds her life shaken up and forever changed after learning a long-buried family secret.
The Final Girls (Starring Taissa Farmiga, Nina Dobrev and Malin Ackerman)
Logline: Max, recently orphaned, goes to see a screening of a B-horror movie her mother made twenty years earlier. When Max and her friends find themselves in the world of the film itself, they must apply their knowledge of horror tropes to survive.
Victoria (Written by Olivia Neergard-Holm and Starring Laia Costa)
Logline: While on holiday in Berlin, a young woman finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals its secret: the four men owe someone a dangerous favor that requires repaying that evening.
OCTOBER 16TH:
Room (Written by Emma Donoghue and Starring Brie Larson)
Logline: After 5-year old Jack and his Ma escape from the enclosed surroundings that Jack has known his entire life, the boy makes a thrilling discovery: the outside world.
OCTOBER 23RD:
Jem and the Holograms (Starring Stefanie Scott)
Logline: As a small-town girl catapults from underground video sensation to global superstar, she and her three sisters begin a journey of discovering that some talents are too special to keep hidden.
I Smile Back (Written by Paige Dylan and Starring Sarah Silverman)
Logline: Laney Brooks does bad things. Married with kids, she takes the drugs she wants, sleeps with the men she wants, disappears when she wants. Now, with the destruction of her family looming, and temptation everywhere, Laney makes one last desperate attempt at redemption.
Suffragette (Directed by Sarah Gavron - Written by Abi Morgan - Starring Meryl Streep, Helena Bonham Carter and Carey Mulligan)
Logline: The foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.
Nasty Baby (Starring Alia Shawkat and Kristen Wiig)
Logline: A close-knit trio navigates the idea of creating life, while at the same time being confronted with a brutal scenario that causes them to take a life.
OCTOBER 30TH:
Our Brand is Crisis (Written by Rachel Boynton and Starring Sandra Bullock and Zoe Kazan)
Logline: A feature film based on the documentary “Our Brand Is Crisis”, which focuses on the use of American political campaign strategies in South America.
The Wonders (Written and directed by Alice Rohrwacher)
Logline: Nothing will be the same at the end of this summer for Gelsomina and her three younger sisters.
The Armor of Light (Directed by Abigail Disney)
Logline: What price conscience? The Armor of Light follows the journey of an Evangelical minister trying to find the courage to preach about the growing toll of gun violence in America.
Bare (Written and Directed by Natalie Leite and starring Dianna Agron and Paz de la Huerta)
Logline: A young girl in Nevada becomes romantically involved with a female drifter who introduces her to a life of stripping, drugs, and metaphysical experiences that teach her what happens when real life catches up with dark fantasy.
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