Holiday film calendar: November
Nov. 5
Interstellar
Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain
Director: Christopher Nolan
Plot: Nolan's highly anticipated sci-fi drama takes off, with McConaughey and Hathaway searching for sustainable life outside of outside our galaxy as Earth dies.
Nov. 7
The Better Angels
Stars: Jason Clarke,Diane Kruger, Brit Marling
Director: A.J. Edwards
Plot: This Terrence Malick-produced historical drama portrays three years in the life of young Abraham Lincoln, showing the people and events that shaped him.
Big Hero 6
Stars: Ryan Potter, Scott Adsit, T.J. Miller
Directors: Don Hall, Chris Williams
Plot: A computer prodigy (Potter) gets caught up in a crime plot with his care robot Baymax (Adsit), and ends up putting together a superhero team of geeks.
Elsa & Fred
Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Marcia Gay Harden
Director: Michael Radford
Plot: A gregarious retiree (MacLaine) flirts and fights with a straitlaced widower (Plummer) who moves into her apartment building.
Jessabelle
Stars: Sarah Snook, Mark Webber, Joelle Carter
Director: Kevin Greutert
Plot: A woman returns to her childhood home in Louisiana to recuperate from a car accident and finds a spirit from her childhood waiting for her.
A Merry Friggin' Christmas
Stars: Robin Williams, Joel McHale, Lauren Graham
Director: Tristram Shapeero
Plot: Boyd (McHale) and his eccentric father (Williams) hit the road in a blizzard to retrieve Christmas presents before sunrise.
On Any Sunday: The Next Chapter
Stars: Marc Márquez, Dani Pedrosa, Travis Pastrana
Director: Dana Brown
Plot: The next chapter in the Bruce Brown's 1971 documentary On Any Sunday, which looked at the motorcycle world, gets an update by his son Dana.
Sex Ed
Stars: Haley Joel Osment, Laura Harring, Matt Walsh
Director: Isaac Feder
Plot: Osment stars as a rookie teacher working in an inner-city school who starts to teach Sex Ed, despite being a virgin.
The Theory of Everything
Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Charlie Cox
Director: James Marsh
Plot: This biopic of astrophysicist rock star Stephen Hawking focuses on his early years as a healthy, brilliant Cambridge student falling in love.
Nov. 14
Bad Turn Worse
Stars: Jeremy Allen White, Mark Pellegrino, Mackenzie Davis
Directors: Simon and Zeke Hawkins
Plot: Three Texas teens find themselves indebted to a sociopathic criminal named Giff (Pellegrino) after a weekend of partying with stolen money.
Beyond the Lights
Stars: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Nate Parker, Minnie Driver
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Plot: The music world's biggest star (Mbatha-Raw) falls for a young cop and aspiring politician (Parker) who's been assigned to her detail.
Dumb and Dumber To
Stars: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Kathleen Turner
Directors: Bobby and Peter Farrelly
Plot: Twenty years after Dumb and Dumber, Lloyd (Carrey) and Harry (Daniels) are back and dumber than ever while looking for Lloyd's lost daughter.
Foxcatcher
Stars: Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo
Director: Bennett Miller
Plot: Based on a true story, Foxcatcher explores the bizarre and ultimately tragic relationship between wealthy heir John Du Pont (Carell) and Olympic medal-winning wrestlers Mark Shultz (Tatum) and his brother Dave (Ruffalo).
The Homesman
Stars: Hilary Swank, Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones
Director: Tommy Lee Jones
Plot: A claim-jumper (Jones) is hired to help a pioneer woman (Swank) escort three insane women from Nebraska to Iowa.
Rosewater
Stars: Gael García Bernal, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Golshifteh Farahani
Director: Jon Stewart
Plot: The Daily Show host's directing debut tells the true story of BBC journalist Maziar Bahari, suspected of being a spy in Iran.
Starry Eyes
Stars: Alex Essoe, Noah Segan, Pat Healy
Directors: Kevin Kolsch, Dennis Widmyer
Plot: An aspiring actress (Essoe) lands a leading role in a mysterious movie production that leads to horrifying consequences.
Nov. 21
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth
Director: Francis Lawrence
Plot: Katniss Everdeen (Lawrence) destroys the Hunger Games forever while she fights to save friend Peeta (Hutcherson) and an entire nation in revolt.
Reach Me
Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Kyra Sedgwick, Kevin Connolly
Director: John Herzfeld
Plot: A motivational book inspires and connects a diverse group of people to confront their fears in the hopes of creating more positive lives.
Nov. 26
Horrible Bosses 2
Stars: Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis
Director: Sean Anders
Plot: Jennifer Aniston and Jamie Foxx rejoin the hapless trio who run a company taken over by father-son business sharks (Christoph Waltz, Chris Pine).
Penguins of Madagascar
Stars: Tom McGrath, Benedict Cumberbatch, John Malkovich
Directors: Eric Darnell, Simon J. Smith
Plot: The spy penguins from the DreamWorks Madagascar franchise get their own movie and villain — Dr. Octavius Brine (Malkovich), who is bent on destroying their world.
Nov. 28
The Imitation Game
Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode
Director: Morten Tyldum
Plot: Cumberbatch plays Alan Turing, the genius British mathematician, logician, cryptologist and computer scientist who helped lead the charge to crack the German Enigma Code that helped the Allies win World War II.