Comedy, heist film at the Mill
Two more “certified fresh” independent films open for a limited run this weekend.
“Sorry to Bother You” is a highly acclaimed comedy about a telemarketer in Oakland. It is rated 14A with a sexual content, nudity and coarse language warning. It is 111 minutes in length and will show daily at 1:20 and 7:10 p.m.
“American Animals” is a very interesting-sounding true story of an amazing heist from a few years ago. It is also rated 14A with a coarse language warning. It is 117 minutes long and shows daily at 4 and 9:40 p.m.
“Sorry to Bother You” is described on its official site as follows: “In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, black telemarketer Cassius Green (Lakeith Stanfield) discovers a magical key to professional success, which propels him into a macabre universe of ‘power-calling’ that leads to material glory. But the upswing in Cassius’ career raises serious red flags with his girlfriend Detroit (Tessa Thompson), a performance artist and minimum-wage striver who’s secretly part of a Banksy-style activist collective. As his friends and co-workers organize in protest of corporate oppression, Cassius falls under the spell of his company’s cocaine-snorting CEO Steve Lift (Armie Hammer), who offers him a salary beyond his wildest dreams.”
“‘American Animals’ is the unbelievable but entirely true story of four young men who attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in U.S. history. The film centres around two friends from the middle-class suburbs of Lexington, Kentucky. Spencer (Barry Keoghan) is determined to become an artist but feels he lacks the essential ingredient that unites all great artists — suffering. His closest friend, Warren (Evan Peters), has also been raised to believe that his life will be special, and that he will be unique in some way. But as they leave the suburbs for universities in the same town, the realities of adult life begin to dawn on them and with that, the realization that their lives may in fact never be important or special in any way. Determined to live lives that are out of the ordinary, they plan the brazen theft of some of the world’s most valuable books from the special collections room of ✦Spencer’s
college library. Enlisting two more friends, accounting major Eric (Jared Abrahamson) and fitness fanatic Chas (Blake Jenner), and taking their cues from heist movies, the gang meticulously plots the theft and subsequent fence of the stolen artworks. Although some of the group begin to have second thoughts, they discover that the plan has seemingly taken on a life of its own. Unfolding from multiple perspectives, and innovatively incorporating the reallife figures at the heart of the story, writer-director Bart Layton (The Imposter) takes the heist movie into bold new territory.” — The Orchard (official site).
Both films are sure to entertain for a variety of reasons — whether it is the dark comedy or the true crime thriller. See you at the movie theatre!
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