By Anna Velichko (’20)
Biography/true story
The Theory of Everything
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Salz7uGp72c
Watch it on: iTunes, YouTube Movies, Prime Video, Netflix
Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones
Description: Eddie Redmayne is Stephen Hawking in this beautiful biopic about his life and disease.
Steve Jobs
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XEh7arNSms
Watch it on: iTunes, YouTube Movies, Prime Video, Netflix
Cast: Michael Fassbender
Description: A biopic of the life of Steve Jobs starring Michael Fassbender.
My Week with Marilyn
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNab_iaz6BY
Watch it on: iTunes, Prime Video, Netflix
Cast: Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Emma Watson, Kenneth Branaugh
Description: In 1956 England, Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne) lands a job as a production assistant on the set of “The Prince and the Showgirl,” starring Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams). Marilyn is also honeymooning with her new husband, playwright Arthur Miller, but the combined pressure of work and the demands of the Hollywood hangers-on is driving her to exhaustion. When Miller departs for Paris, Colin seizes the opportunity, to give Marilyn respite during a week in the idyllic British countryside.
I, Tonya
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXZQ5DfSAAc
Watch it on: iTunes, YouTube Movies, Prime Video, Hulu
Cast: Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan
Description: The story of figure skater Tonya Harding and her conspiracy with her husband to injure fellow Olympic hopeful Nancy Kerrigan
Free Solo
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urRVZ4SW7WU
Watch it on: YouTube Movies, Prime Video, Hulu
Cast: Alex Honnold
Description: A documentary by National Geographic about Alex Honnold’s historic attempt to climb El Capitain mountain’s 900 meter vertical rock face. Suspenseful and thrilling.
The Wolf of Wall Street
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iszwuX1AK6A
Watch it on: iTunes, YouTube Movies, Prime Video, Hulu
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie
Description: The true story of Jordan Belfort and his fraudulent brokerage firm. Belfort and Cronies live hedonistic lifestyle with sex, drugs, and thrills.
The Blind Side
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvqj_Tk_kuM
Watch it on: iTunes, YouTube Movies, Prime Video, Hulu
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Quinton Aaron
Description: The touching true story of football player Michael Oher and his adoptive family, the Tuohys. (Sandra Bullock won an oscar for her performance in this film as Leigh Anne Tuohy.)
The Founder
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX2uz2XYkbo
Watch it on: iTunes, Prime Video
Cast: Michael Keaton, Laura Dern, Nick Offerman
Description: The true story of Ray Kroc who bought McDonald’s and turned it into a multi-billion dollar empire
The Social Network
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB95KLmpLR4
Watch it on: iTunes, YouTube Movies, Prime Video,
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Army Hammer
Description: Well-written film about Facebook and its founders. Tells the stories of Mark Zuckerberg and his early associates.
The Walk
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W6byFcD5uE
Watch it on: iTunes, YouTube Movies, Prime Video, Hulu
Cast: Joseph Gordon Levitt, Charlotte Le Bon
Description: The story of Phillipe Petit who walked on a tightrope between the North and South towers of the World trade Center
Beautiful Boy
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEw2uHUYUPk
Watch it on: Prime Video
Cast: Steve Carrell, Timothee Chalamet, Amy ryan
Description: Teenager Nicolas Sheff seems to have it all with good grades and being an actor, artist, athlete and editor of the school newspaper. When Nic’s addiction to meth threatens to destroy him, his father does whatever he can to save his son and family.
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