BoxOffice® Pro - May 2012

COMING SOON
Muslim, the men are fighting like cats and
dogs. So their women hire a handful of pretty
ladies to distract their men while they steal the
town’s weapons and bury them underground.
It’s a great catch-22: The guys can get mad their
wives stole their guns, but they did it while
they were flouting their marriage vows. Let’s get
ready to rumble.
DISTRIBUTOR Sony Pictures Classics CAST
Claude Moussawbaa, Layla Hakim, Antoinette
El-Noufaily DIRECTOR Nadine Labaki SCREEN-
WRITER Nadine Labaki, Jihad Hojeily PRODUC-
ER Anne-Dominique Toussaint GENRE Drama;
Arabic- and French-languages, subtitled RAT-
ING PG-13 for thematic drug material, some
sensuality and violent images. RUNNING TIME
110 min. RELEASE DATE May 11 NY/LA
FREIDA OF THE
D’URBERVILLES IN
TRISHNA
GIRL IN PROGRESS
THE TAMING OF THE TWEEN
>> Post-vixen Eva Mendes plays an overcommitted
single mom in Seattle. Too often left to
her devices, Mendes’ daughter Ansiedad grew
up quickly, but not quickly enough for Ansiedad’s
taste. Either empowered or misguided,
Ansiedad uses the coming-of-age stories she’s
reading at school as a template for her own
high-speed maturation. She’ll get out of her
tweens one way or another—but she’s determined
to hit adulthood using the expressway.
DISTRIBUTOR Lionsgate CAST Matthew Mo-
dine, Eva Mendes, Patricia Arquette, Eugenio
Derbez, Russell Peters, Cierra Ramirez DIREC-
TOR Patricia Riggen SCREENWRITER Hiram
Martinez PRODUCER John Fiedler, Benjamin
Odell GENRE Dramedy RATING PG-13 for
mature thematic elements, sexual content
including crude references, and drinking—all
involving teens. RUNNING TIME 90 min. RELEASE
DATE May 11, 2012
TRISHNA
LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHASTITY
>> An update of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the
d’Urbervilles is relocated by writer/director
Michael Winterbottom to India, a nation with
stricter moral codes. The story of a free-think-
ing Tess, who becomes a “maiden no more”
and suffers
for her loves no longer makes sense
when millions of people in the West watch
The Bachelorette, but in 2007, Richard Gere
caused an international crisis by publicly kiss-
ing the cheek of Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty.
(In Mumbai, he was burned in effigy—seri-
ously.) Featuring an original score that’s both
traditional
Indian song and modern sounds,
this dance-heavy tragic romance is an arthouse
favorite in the making.
DISTRIBUTOR IFC Films CAST Riz Ahmed, Freida
Pinto, Kalki Koechlin DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER
Michael Winterbottom PRODUCER Sunil Bohra,
Melissa Parmenter, Michael Winterbottom
GENRE Drama RATING TBD RUNNING TIME 117
min. RELEASE DATE May 18 NY
MAGGIE
GYLLENHAAL
AND HER
FAVORITE DOC,
HUGH DANCY
HYSTERIA
DO YOU NEED A PRESCRIPTION FOR THAT?
This romantic comedy charts the messy path of the young doctor who invented the
vibrator. Boy, was the Victorian Era conflicted—it was a time when doctors both
denied the existence of female pleasure and prescribed heroin for coughs. At a loss for
a job, one young doctor was hired on to manually relieve women of their “hysteria.”
After months of carpal tunnel, he devises a mechanical way to outsource his hand
gestures. An industry is born.
DISTRIBUTOR Sony Pictures Classics CAST Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jonathan Pryce, Rupert
Everett, Gemma Jones, Hugh Dancy, Anna Chancellor, Felicity Jones DIRECTOR Tanya
Wexler SCREENWRITER Jonah Lisa Dyer, Stephen Dyer PRODUCER Sarah Curtis, Judy
Cairo, Tracey Becker GENRE Comedy RATING R for sexual content. RUNNING TIME 100
min. RELEASE DATE May 18 NY/LA
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