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Woman in Gold

The emotionally charged world of art restitution is revealed in this true story. Maria Altmann (Mirren) is an elderly woman living in Los Angeles who, decades earlier, had been forced to flee Vienna, Austria due to her Jewish heritage when the Nazis invaded. While looking through some old letters written by her late sister, she learns that her family had left behind some original pieces of artwork when they fled and that one of them is a painting of her aunt by Gustav Klimt. Determined to retrieve her property, she challenges the Austrian government all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States to get it back -- but the painting, called the Woman in Gold, is now considered an Austrian national treasure. With the Austrian government unwilling to part with the masterpiece, Maria embarks on the legal fight of her life to not only recover the stolen property, but also to recover a piece of her family's heritage.

Director: Simon Curtis. Stars: Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Katie Holmes, Tatiana Maslany, Daniel Brühl, Max Irons. 2015. 109 min. Drama.

 

Maggie

The world is plagued by the Necroambulist virus, a horrible infection that slowly turns people into zombies. Despite this, society continues to function, with those infected being quarantined once they become infectious. A young woman named Maggie (Breslin) is bitten by a zombie and taken by the authorities, but her father, Wade (Schwarzenegger), is given permission to take her home until her symptoms progress. As her condition deteriorates, she becomes more of a threat to those around her, but the ordeal brings her into a closer bond with her father than ever before.

Director: Henry Hobson. Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Abigail Breslin, Joely Richardson, Douglas M. Griffin. 2015. 95 min. Drama.

 

Tooken

Bryan Millers (Tergesen) keeps having things taken from him in this spoof of the popular "Taken" movie franchise. With his wife and his dog among the many things that have gone missing, the ex-CIA agent recruits the help of his mother to free his family from a diabolical villain (Cho).

Director: John Asher. Stars: Lee Tergesen, Margaret Cho, Jenny McCarthy, Lukas Haas, Donnie Wahlberg. 2015. 80 min. Comedy.