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Pick My Flick (November 2014)

11/18/2014

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Voting is now closed!
This month's winner of Pick My Flick is The Theory of Everything!
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This month's Pick My Flick is going to be a little different than usual. Due to its late start (thanks to unforeseen circumstances) I'm only going to run the poll for 7 days, but you will now be able to vote every 24 hours! So make sure to check back every day until the 25th to cast your vote! Here are your choices for the month of November (all of which are based on true stories):
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Foxcatcher
Directed by: Bennett Miller
Starring: Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, and Anthony Michael Hall
Summary: Mark and Dave Schultz are brothers and Olympic gold medal winners in wrestling. After winning the gold, Mark Schultz finds a new mentor in millionaire sponsor Jon du Pont and joins his elusive Foxcatcher training facility, where du Pont becomes increasingly erratic and ruinous.
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Rated R for some drug use and a scene of violence.
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The Imitation Game
Directed by: Morten Tyldum
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Mark Strong, and Matthew Goode
Summary: During the height of World War II, British mathematician Alan Turing led a team tasked with decoding German naval messages by cracking the Enigma code, which was a pivotal victory for Allied forces. Despite his triumph, Turing couldn't escape persecution for his own homosexuality.
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Rated PG-13 for some sexual references, mature thematic material and historical smoking.
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Rosewater
Directed by: Jon Stewart
Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, Kim Bodnia, Dimitri Leonidas, and Haluk Bilginer
Summary: Journalist Maziar Bahari was captured and detained in Iran after submitting video footage of Iranian protests to the media. Wrongfully accused of being a spy, Bahari was blindfolded and brutally interrogated for four months.
Release Date: November 14, 2014
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R for language including some crude references, and violent content.
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The Theory of Everything
Directed by: James Marsh
Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Emily Watson, David Thewlis, and Tom Prior
Summary: Centered around the life of the world's most famous physicist, Stephen Hawking, from his days studying at Cambridge where he met his wife Jane, to his eventual diagnosis with motor neuron disease that resulted in paralysis.
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Rated PG-13 for some thematic elements and suggestive material.

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Thanks for voting! The movies below are the ones I will be seeing this month, in addition to the winner of Pick My Flick!
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Interstellar, Big Hero 6, Dumb and Dumber To, and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
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