Movies Opening In Cinemas On February 24
Every Tuesday, we compile a list of the movies that are opening in cinemas. Opening this week: Get Out; Collide; Rock Dog; The Girl with All the Gifts; My Life As a Zucchini; Drifter; Tulip Fever; Dying Laughing; Bitter Harvest and Kiki.
Note that these are based on the opening dates in the United States. If you’re looking for the opening dates for a certain movie in your country, click the ‘international release dates” below the movie details.
Opening in Cinemas This Week:
Get Out (2017)
1h 43min | Horror
A young African-American man visits his Caucasian girlfriend’s mysterious family estate.
Director: Jordan Peele
Writer: Jordan Peele
Stars: Allison Williams, Lakeith Stanfield, Catherine Keener
Kiki (2016)
1h 34min | Documentary
A group of LGBTQ youths of color unite to form a safe gathering space.
Director: Sara Jordenö
Writers: Sara Jordenö, Twiggy Pucci Garcon
Collide (2016)
1h 39min | Action, Thriller
An American backpacker gets involved with a ring of drug smugglers as their driver, though he winds up on the run from his employers across Cologne high-speed Autobahn.
Director: Eran Creevy
Writers: F. Scott Frazier, Eran Creevy a.o.
Stars: Nicholas Hoult, Felicity Jones, Anthony Hopkins
Rock Dog (2016)
1h 20min | Animation, Comedy, Family
When a radio falls from the sky into the hands of a wide-eyed Tibetan Mastiff, he leaves home to fulfill his dream of becoming a musician, setting into motion a series of completely unexpected events.
Director: Ash Brannon
Writers: Denise Bradley, Ash Brannon a.o.
Stars: Luke Wilson, Eddie Izzard, J.K. Simmons
The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
1h 51min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A scientist and a teacher living in a dystopian future embark on a journey of survival with a special young girl named Melanie.
Director: Colm McCarthy
Writers: Mike Carey
Stars: Gemma Arterton, Dominique Tipper, Glenn Close
My Life as a Zucchini (2016)
1h 10min | Animation, Family
Courgette (Zucchini) is an intriguing nickname for a 9-year-old boy. Although his unique story is surprisingly universal. After his mother’s disappearance, Courgette is befriended by a police officer Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home filled with other orphans his age. At first he struggles to find his place in this strange, at times, hostile environment. Yet with Raymond’s help and his new-found friends, Courgette eventually learns to trust and might find true love.
Director: Claude Barras
Writers: Gilles Paris (novel), Céline Sciamma a.o.
Stars: Gaspard Schlatter, Sixtine Murat, Paulin Jaccoud
Drifter (2016)
1h 26min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A pair of outlaw brothers seek temporary refuge in a desolate town inhabited by a small family of psychotic cannibalistic lunatics.
Director: Chris von Hoffmann
Writers: Chris von Hoffmann, Aria Emory a.o.
Stars: Aria Emory, Drew Harwood, Monique Rosario
Tulip Fever (2017)
1h 47min | Drama, Romance
An artist falls for a young married woman while he’s commissioned to paint her portrait during the Tulip mania of 17th century Amsterdam.
Director: Justin Chadwick
Writers: Deborah Moggach (novel), Tom Stoppard
Stars: Alicia Vikander, Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne
Dying Laughing (2016)
1h 29min | Documentary, Comedy
The craft, creative process and complicated lives of stand-up comedians.
Directors: Lloyd Stanton, Paul Toogood
Stars: Stephen K. Amos, Dave Attell, Sandra Bernhard
Bitter Harvest (2017)
1h 43min | Drama, Romance, War
Set in 1930s Ukraine, as Stalin advances the ambitions of communists in the Kremlin, young artist Yuri battles to save his lover Natalka from the Holodomor, the death-by-starvation program that ultimately killed millions of Ukrainians.
Director: George Mendeluk
Writers: Richard Bachynsky Hoover a.o.
Stars: Max Irons, Terence Stamp, Barry Pepper
Which of these will you be seeing? Share your thoughts in the comments below!
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