This week’s column has it all from comedy to drama and thrills to the biographical. Sisters is a comedy where a pair of sisters decide to throw one more great party before their parents sell their family home. The Finest Hours chronicles the true story of a rescue attempt to save a pair of oil tankers caught in a blizzard. Joy follows a family through the generations and the matriarch, who leads the powerful family business dynasty. All three movies have top notch celebrities in their casts, which is sure to bring throngs of their fans to each movie’s opening day. In addition, each movie brings their own spin to the signature essentials that are inherent of their particular movie genre. Plus, all three films either have certain celebrities in their element or totally out of their comfort zone, which could delight or put off their fans.
Sisters is a comedy starring Saturday Night Live alums Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. It also stars WWE wrestler John Cena, comedian John Leguizamo, James Brolin, Heather Matarazzo, Dianne Wiest, and fellow SNL alums Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch and Bobby Moynihan. The laughfest’s trailer displays how two sisters learn that their parents are selling their childhood home and decide to throw the ultimate goodbye party. It opens in theaters on Friday, December 25.
The Finest Hours is a dramatic thriller starring Chris Pine, Eric Bana, Casey Affleck, Outlander’s Graham McTavish and Abraham Benrubi. The film is based on the true story of the Pendleton rescue mission attempt in 1952. It follows the brave rescue attempt by four members of the Coast Guard to save the more than 30 stranded sailors whose oil tanker was struck and felled by one the strongest storms to ever hit the East Coast. The drama’s trailer illustrates how these four men, against impossible odds, refused to let the sailors of a fallen oil tanker die. It opens in theaters on Friday, January 29, 2016.
Joy is a biographical dramedy starring Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Elisabeth Rohm, Virginia Madsen, Isabella Rossellini, Donna Mills and Diane Ladd. The movie’s plot follows a family through four generations and shows how its matriarch founded the family and endured lies, betrayal and a host of other situations in order to maintain the family’s business dynasty. The teaser trailer demonstrates one woman’s struggle with herself and to keep her family together through the years. It opens in theaters on Friday, December 25.