Plett Cinema Fri 08 Aug – Thu 14 Aug 

Published: August 5th, 2014

movie-fading-gigoloFADING GIGOLO – NPU 13 – 90 MIN
Comedy, On the Art Circuit

Weekdays: 11h00 13h20 18h00
Weekend: 18h00

One of the few films starring Woody Allen which he did not write and/or direct. He plays an aging book store owner who becomes a ‘pimp’ to his younger partner, as they seek to make money in a hurry to save their store. Soon, things are going much better than they had hoped, which leads to complications.

Cast: John Turturro, Woody Allen, Vanessa Paradis, Liev Schrieber, Sharon Stone, Sofia Vergara, Tonya Pinkins


movie-the-railway-manTHE RAILWAY MAN – NPU 13 – 116 MIN
Biographical, Drama, On the art circuit
Weekdays: 13h10 15h30 20h00
Weekend: 13h40 17h30

Based on the remarkable bestselling autobiography, this tells the extraordinary and epic true story of Eric Lomax, a British Army officer who is tormented as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labour camp during World War II. Decades later, Lomax and his beautiful love interest Patti discover that the Japanese interpreter responsible for much of his treatment is still alive and set out to confront him, and his haunting past, in this powerful and inspiring tale of heroism, humanity and the redeeming power of love.

Cast: Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine, Stellan Skarsgård


movie-house-of-magicTHE HOUSE OF MAGIC – PG – 85 MIN
Adventure, Animation, Family, Comedy
Weekdays: 15h30
Weekend: 11h00 12h50 16h00

An abandoned young cat seeking shelter from a storm, stumbles into the strangest house imaginable, owned by an old magician and inhabited by a dazzling array of automatons and gizmos. Not everyone welcomes the new addition to the troupe and some plot to evict him. The situation gets worse when the magician lands in hospital and his scheming nephew sees his chance to cash in by selling the mansion. Our young hero is determined to earn his place and so he enlists the help of some wacky magician’s assistants to protect his magical new home.

Voices of Murray Blue, Edward Asner, George Babbit, Emily Blunt, and others


movie-the-other-womanTHE OTHER WOMAN – PG – 109 MIN
Comedy, Romance
Weekdays: 11h00 20h00
Weekend: 20h00

After discovering her boyfriend is married, a young woman accidently meets the wife he’s been cheating on. When the two of them discover yet another affair, all three women team up to plot mutual revenge on the three-timing sleezebag.

Cast: Cameron Diaz, Kate Upton, Leslie Mann, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Don Johnson, Kate Upton, Taylor Kinney, Nickie Minaj


movie-divergentDIVERGENT – NPU 13 – 140 MIN
Action, Adventure
Weekdays: 17h20
Weekend: 11h00 14h40 20h00

Based on the first novel in a best-selling trilogy, and aimed at much the same demographic as Bella and Katnis, this future-set tale takes place in a world where people are divided into distinct factions based on human virtues. A young woman is warned she is Divergent and will never fit into any one group. When she discovers a conspiracy by a faction leader to destroy all Divergents, she must learn to trust in the mysterious Four and together they must find out what makes being Divergent so dangerous before it’s too late.

Cast: Shailene Woodley, Ashley Judd, Zoë Kravitz, Maggie Q, Kate Winslet, Amy Newbold

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