Meet Kate Reddy (Sarah Jessica Parker) – wife, mother, career woman and juggler par excellence. Kate’s life is hectic, but it’s also pretty great. She’s got a wonderful husband, Richard (Greg Kinnear), an architect who has recently struck out on his own. She’s got two adorable children, Emily (Emma Rayne Lyle), who’s turning six, and Ben (Theodore and Julius Goldberg), a toddler who worships the ground she walks on. And she’s got a job she loves as an investment manager at the Boston satellite of a New York-based financial firm. Kate travels frequently for work but she also manages to be as involved in her daughter’s school and after-school activities as any stay-at-home mom. Colleagues, acquaintances and relatives invariably say the same thing when remarking on Kate’s ability to keep the different areas of her existence running so smoothly: “I don’t know how you do it.”

It’s a phrase that’s likely to be met by Kate with a polite smile, and by her best friend and fellow working mother Allison (Christina Hendricks) with a wryly raised eyebrow. The fact is, Kate can’t remember the last time she had an uninterrupted night’s sleep on top of which her to-do list is in a state of never-ending expansion.

She sometimes arrives at work inadvertently accessorized with bits of her children’s breakfast – to the horror of her workaholic, child-phobic junior colleague Momo (Olivia Munn) – but keeps mum about her family life around her male co-workers.

An intimate dinner with Richard tends to involve the microwave, and that home-made pie for Emily’s school bake sale? A case of necessity, or maternal guilt, being the mother of invention…

After years of diligent toil, Kate scores a key victory at work when her proposal for a new investment fund gets an enthusiastic reception from the firm’s head honcho in New York, Jack Abelhammer (Pierce Brosnan). More good news: Jack wants to pitch the fund to a major client. But the timetable for making the pitch is short, and that means Kate will have to spend even more time away from home, ironing out every detail with Jack in New York. Meanwhile, Richard has his own good news: he‟s landed the first big contract of his solo career, and it’ a make-or-break moment.

And with that, Kate Reddy‟s juggling act moves onto the high-wire...

Based on Allison Pearson‟s critically acclaimed bestseller of the same title, I Don’t Know How She Does It is a comedy for any working mother – or, for that matter, working father – whose life depends on the to-do list. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Douglas McGrath (Emma), produced by Academy Award-winner Donna Gigliotti (Shakespeare In Love) and adapted for the screen by the BAFTA Award nominee Aline Brosh McKenna (The Devil Wears Prada)

I Don’t Know How She Does it stars Sarah Jessica Parker (Sex And The City) , Pierce Brosnan (Mamma Mia!), Academy Award nominee Greg Kinnear (Little Miss Sunshine), Christina Hendricks (Mad Men), Kelsey Grammer (Frasier), Seth Meyers (Saturday Night Live), Olivia Munn (The Daily Show) and Jane Curtin (I Love You, Man).

Classification 12

Straw Dogs - How far would you go?

Straw Dogs: Taken from the classic Chinese text, Tao Te Ching, likening the human condition to that of an ancient Chinese ceremonial straw dog. The dogs, which were made from straw, were used as offering to gods in ancient Chinese rituals and treated with the utmost reverence, only to be trampled on and tossed aside when no longer needed.

When everything you’ve lived for is under siege, what would you do?

How far would you go?

It’s a question made terrifyingly apparent to Hollywood screenwriter David Sumner (James Marsden) and his actress wife Amy (Kate Bosworth) when they move to her small hometown in the Deep South after her father’s death. Smiling faces, warm welcomes and what were once comfortable old relationships take on a sinister tinge for David and Amy, who find themselves driven to a crisis-laden brink in Screen Gems’ frightening reimagining of the classic 1971 film “Straw Dogs.”

The suspenseful, gut-wrenching and intensely cathartic new version brings the original story to the present-day American South, and sets it against a backdrop of small town life where everyone knows too much about each other, the town hierarchy is determined by your place within the ranks of the high school football team and the performance of the football team at Friday night’s game determines the fates of many.

David and Amy’s plan is to prepare for sale the family home, which has fallen into disrepair, and for David to take advantage of the quiet and solitude to complete the screenplay he’s working on.

But all is not as bucolic as it seems in Blackwater, Mississippi, and the arrival of the Sumners stirs up long-dormant resentments and suspicious actions. Once there, Amy slips back into being the hometown celebrity, which leaves David feeling out of touch with his wife and questioning her behavior. Meanwhile, tensions build in their marriage and old conflicts re-emerge with the locals, most notably with Amy’s ex-boyfriend Charlie (Alexander Skarsgård), who, along with his fellow former football teammates Bic (Drew Powell), Norman (Rhys Coiro) and Chris (Billy Lush) push the limits of David’s tolerance and the Sumners’ marriage, forcing them to re-evaluate each other and their relationship.

When the daughter of the former football coach Tom Heddon (James Woods) goes missing, her father takes the law into his own hands, enlisting Charlie and his boys to help him search for her and setting into motion a series of events that ultimately leads to an explosively violent confrontation, escalating to a shocking, catastrophic climax that will shatter the lives of everyone involved.

The 1971 release starred Dustin Hoffman and Susan George and was written and directed by Sam Peckinpah. David Zaleg Goodman also has a writing credit on the original’s screenplay and both films are based on the book, The Siege at Trencher’s Farm by Gordon Williams.

Screen Gems presents a Battleplan Production, Straw Dogs, starring James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, Alexander Skarsgård, Dominic Purcell, Laz Alonso, Willa Holland, and James Woods. Directed by and screenplay by Rod Lurie. Marc Frydman produced. Based on the ABC Motion Picture Screenplay by David Zelag Goodman and Sam Peckinpah. Based on the novel “The Siege of Trencher’s Farm” by Gordon Williams. Executive Producers are Beau Marks and Gilbert Dumontet. The behind-the-scenes team includes director of photography Alik Sakharov, ASC, production designer Tony Fanning, and editor Sarah Boyd, A.C.E. The music is by Larry Groupé and costume designer was Lynn Falconer.

Classification 18

Rum Diary - A journalist’s story

Based on the debut novel by Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary tells the increasingly unhinged story of itinerant journalist Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp).

Tiring of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local newspaper, The San Juan Star, run by downtrodden editor Lotterman (Richard Jenkins).

Adopting the rum-soaked life of the island, Paul soon becomes obsessed with Chenault (Amber Heard), the wildly attractive Connecticut-born fiancée of Sanderson (Aaron Eckhart). Sanderson, a businessman involved in shady property development deals, is one of a growing number of American entrepreneurs who are determined to convert Puerto Rico into a capitalist paradise in service of the wealthy.

When Kemp is recruited by Sanderson to write favourably about his latest unsavoury scheme, the journalist is presented with a choice: to use his words for the corrupt businessmen’s financial benefit, or use them to take the bastards down.

Classification 16

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