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Kam’s Kapsules: Movies Opening Friday, September 8
BIG BUDGET FILMS
9/11 (R for profanity)
Fact-based drama re-
counting the harrowing
ordeal of five strangers
trapped inside an eleva-
tor in the World Trade
Center’s North Tower
after the building was
struck by a hijacked air-
liner on the morning
of September 11, 2001.
Co-starring
Charlie
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Williams
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edy revolving around a
recently-separated moth-
er of two (Reese Wither-
spoon) who relocates to
Bell, Candice Bergen and
P.J. Byrne.
It (R for violence, pro-
fanity and bloody im-
ages) Adaptation of the
Stephen King best-sell-
er set in Maine in the
summer of ‘89 where
we find seven ostracized
‘tweens joining forces
to exact revenge on the
shape-shifting monster
(Bill Skarsgard) terror-
izing their hometown.
Ensemble cast includes
Jaeden Lieberher, Jeremy
Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis,
Finn Wolfhard and Wy-
att Oleff.
INDEPENDENT &
FOREIGN FILMS
‘Poster Boys’
Sheen, Whoopi Gold-
berg, Gina Gershon, Luis
Guzman, Jacqueline Bis-
set and Wood Harris.
Home Again (PG-13 for
sexuality and mature
themes) Romantic dram-
L.A. where she rents her
carriage house to three
aspiring filmmakers (Nat
Wolff, Pico Alexander
and Jon Rudnitsky), only
to have her husband (Mi-
chael Sheen) show up un-
announced. With Lake
SHOWTIMES
BRIGSBY BEAR (PG-13)
Fri,Mon-Thur: 12:20, 9:25/Sat-Sun: 9:25
THE EMOJI MOVIE (PG)
Fri,Mon-Thur: 4:40/Sat-Sun: 12:20,4:40
AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL:
TRUTH TO POWER (PG)
Fri-Thur: 2:30, 7:15
LANDLINE (R)
Fri-Thur: 5:05
THE LITTLE HOURS (R)
Fri-Thur: 2:55, 7:00
Boris without Beatrice
(Unrated) Marital crisis
drama about a wealthy
businessman
(James
Hyndman) who embarks
on an extramarital af-
fair while caring for his
depressed,
terminal-
ly-ill wife (Simone-Elise
Girard). Cast includes
Denis Lavant, Isolda
Dychauk and Dounia Si-
chov. (In English, French
and Russian with subti-
tles)
Company Town (Un-
rated) Eco-documentary
The Week of
Friday, Sept. 8 through
Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017
CARS 3 (G)
Sat-Tue: 2:40
MAUDIE (PG-13)
Fri-Thur: 12:30, 6:45
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL.
2 (PG-13)
Fri,Mon-Thur: 2:20, 9:10/Sat-Sun: 9:10
MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY
GRAIL (PG)
Fri-Thur: 12:15, 4:55, 9:00
$4.00 adults, $3.00 senior citizens (65+),
$3.00 for kids (12 & under)
7818 SE Stark St, Portland, OR 97215
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Babysitting: Children 2 to 8 years old. Fri: shows starting between 3:30 pm and 8 pm. Sat - Sun: shows starting
between 1 pm and 8 pm. $9.50 per child for the length of the movie. Call to reserve a spot, no drop ins.
Whoopi Goldberg co-stars in ‘9/11’
chronicling one man’s
mission to save his home-
town of Crossett, Ar-
kansas plagued by can-
cer clusters ostensibly
caused by Georgia-Pa-
cific, a corporate pollut-
er owned by the Koch
brothers.
Free in Deed (Unrat-
ed) Christian-oriented
fare, inspired by real-life
events, recounting a Pen-
tecostal storefront min-
ister’s (David Harewood)
use of faith-healing to
cure a church member’s
(Edwina Findley Dicker-
son) autistic son (RaJay
Chandler).
Featuring
Kathy Smith, Helen Bow-
man and Alex Coker.
The Good Catholic
(PG-13 for profanity and
a sexual reference) Ro-
mantic comedy about an
idealistic, young priest
(Zachary Spicer) whose
vow of celibacy is tested
when he develops a fond-
ness for a parishioner
(Wrenn Schmidt) while
taking her confession.
With Danny Glover, John
C. McGinley and Alex
Miro.
Man in Red Ban-
dana (PG-13 for mature
themes and disaster im-
ages) Gwyneth Paltrow
narrates this documen-
tary about Welles Remy
Crowther, a heroic stock-
broker
posthumously
credited with saving
more than a dozen lives
in the wake of the 9/11
terrorist attack before
perishing in the collapse
of the the World Trade
Center’s South Tower.
Poster Boys (Unrated)
Buddy comedy about
three guys (Bobby Deol,
Shreyas Talpade and
Sunny Deol) whose lives
come apart at the seams
when their faces appear
in a pro-vasectomy post-
er. With Sonali Kulkar-
ni, Tasha Bhambra and
Randheer Rai. (In Hindi
with subtitles)
School Life (PG-13 for
smoking and brief pro-
fanity) Poignant charac-
ter portrait chronicling
a year in the lives of John
and Amanda Leyden,
a married couple who
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both teach at Ireland’s
only primary education
boarding school. (In En-
glish and Spanish with
subtitles)
Trophy (Unrated) En-
dangered species docu-
mentary highlighting the
impending extinction of
a variety of African wild
animals as a result of big
game hunting.
True to the Game (Un-
rated) Crime thriller
about a small-time drug
dealer (Columbus Short)
forced to choose between
love and money as he
tries to escape the ‘hood.
Cast includes Vivica A.
Fox, Erica Peeples and
Nelsan Ellis.
The Unknown Girl
(Unrated) Crime thriller
about a physician (Adele
Haenel) who becomes ob-
sessed with investigating
the murder of the anony-
mous African immigrant
whose frantic knock at
the door she’d ignored.
With Olivier Bonnaud,
Jeremie Renier and Lou-
ka Minella. (In French
with subtitles)
Year by the Sea (Unrat-
ed) Adaptation of Joan
Anderson’s (Karen Long)
midlife crisis mem-
oir about a writer who
moves to Cape Cod rather
than relocate to the Mid-
west with her husband
(Michael Cristofer) upon
their becoming empty
nesters. Supporting cast
includes Celia Imrie,
Yannick Bisson and S.
Epatha Merkerson.
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