Movies Opening in Theaters This Week, 01/11/2023

  • Title: A Man Called Otto
  • Category: Comedy, Drama
  • Rated: PG-13
  • Run Time: 2 Hours 6 Minutes
  • Summary: Otto is a grump who’s given up on life following the loss of his wife and wants to end it all. When a young family moves in nearby, he meets his match in quick-witted Marisol, leading to a friendship that will turn his world around.
  • Director: Marc Forster
  • Writers: David Magee (screenplay by), Fredrik Backman (based upon the novel ‘A Man Called Ove’ by), Hannes Holm (and the film ‘A Man Called ove’ by)
  • Stars: Tom Hanks, John Higgins, Tony Bingham
  • Title: Plane
  • Category: Action, Thriller
  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 Hour 47 Minutes
  • Summary: A pilot finds himself caught in a war zone after he’s forced to land his commercial aircraft during a terrible storm.
  • Director: Jean-François Richet
  • Writers: Charles Cumming (screenplay by), J.P. Davis (screenplay by)
  • Stars: Gerard Butler, Mike Colter, Yoson An
  • Title: House Party
  • Category: Comedy
  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 Hour 40 Minutes
  • Summary: A high school student decides to host a house party while his parents are away. A remake of the 1990 comedy, ‘ House Party’.
  • Director: Calmatic
  • Writers: Stephen Glover, Jamal Olori
  • Stars: Andrew Santino, Tosin Cole, Jacob Latimore
  • Title: The Devil Conspiracy
  • Category: Horror, Thriller
  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 Hour 51 Minutes
  • Summary: A cult steals the Shroud of Turin for wicked purposes.
  • Director: Nathan Frankowski
  • Writer: Ed Alan
  • Stars: Alice Orr-Ewing, Joe Doyle, Eveline Hall
  • Title: The Offering
  • Category: Horror
  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 Hour 33 Minutes
  • Summary: A family struggling with loss finds themselves at the mercy of an ancient demon trying to destroy them from the inside.
  • Director: Oliver Park
  • Writers: Hank Hoffman (Writer), Jonathan Yunger (story)
  • Stars: Paul Kaye, Nick Blood, Allan Corduner
  • Title: The Seven Faces of Jane
  • Category: Drama
  • Run Time: 1 Hour 33 Minutes
  • Summary: Its protagonist is Jane (Jacobs), who finds herself tumbling through a gauntlet of surreal, beautiful and heartbreaking adventures. After dropping off her daughter at a summer camp for the first time, and encouraging her reticent child to engage in new experiences, Jane finds herself heeding her own advice.
  • Directors: Julian Acosta, Xan Cassavetes, Gia Coppola
  • Writers: Julian Acosta, Xan Cassavetes, Ben Del Vecchio
  • Stars: Gillian Jacobs, Joel McHale, Sybil Azur
  • Title: A Snowy Day in Oakland
  • Category: Comedy
  • Rated: PG-13
  • Summary: A Snowy Day in Oakland – A magical urban tale about a beautiful psychologist from San Francisco who decides to end a stalled romance with her longtime, high-profile, psychiatrist, boyfriend/business partner. She moves on with her life by opening her own private practice in a vacant, street-front office space in the middle of a small, commercial block located across the bay in Oakland, turning the predominately African-American and psychologically ignored neighborhood on its emotional ear.
  • Director: Kim Bass
  • Writer: Kim Bass
  • Stars: Keith David, Nicole Ari Parker, Michael Jai White
  • Title: 38 Minutes
  • Category: Action
  • Summary: Inspired by an actual event. This is the story of the Hawaii False Missile Alert which occurred on January 13, 2018.
  • Director: Paul Lacovara
  • Writer: Paul Lacovara
  • Star: Philip Winchester (rumored)

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