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At the Movies – Big Eyes, Little Boy, Run All Night

Big Eyes

The true story of painter Margaret Keane’s life in obscurity while her husband gleaned the notoriety for being the face of her work. In the late 1950s, when Margaret Keane with her daughter, leaves her husband to start a new life in San Francisco. There, she falls head over heels for Walter, an artist and part-time real-estate broker who soon shows great interest in her unique paintings of small children with strikingly expressive, saucer-like eyes. Before long, the two are married, and Walter is claiming credit for Margaret’s increasingly popular paintings. As her paintings become a pop-culture phenomenon, Margaret leaves the increasingly abusive Walter, and moves to Hawaii, going to court to reclaim the works that have been credited to her husband. Director: Tim Burton. Cast: Christoph Waltz, Amy Adams, Terence Stamp, Danny Huston, Krysten Ritter. Rated: PG-13. Time: 1:46. 

Little Boy

Little Pepper Busbee enjoys an idyllic life in an American small town, but his world is shattered when his beloved father is sent off to fight in World War II. But a chance encounter with a stage magician awakens his dormant abilities and clues him into the power of faith. Now his devotion to his father will extend past time and space and into the realm of miracles. Director: Alejandro Monteverde. Cast: Emily Watson, Kevin James, David Henrie, Tom Wilkinson, Ted Levine. Rated: PG-13. Time: 1:46. 

Run All Night

Brooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon, once known as The Gravedigger, has seen better days. Longtime best friend of mob boss Shawn Maguire, Jimmy, now 55, only finds solaceat the bottom of a whiskey glass.  But when his estranged son, Mike, becomes a target, Jimmy must make a choice between the crime family he chose and the real family he abandoned long ago. Director: Jaume Collet-Serra. Cast: Liam Neeson, Ed Harris, Joel Kinnaman, Natalie Martinez, Common. Rated: R. Time: 1:54.

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