6 Movies Starring Brie Larson

Hoot

Hoot

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-05-05

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

91 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

5.6 (6137 Reviews)

Director:

Wil Shriner

Cast:

Writer:

Wil Shriner (screenplay)

Carl Hiaasen (novel)

Fullplot:

The story of a young man moves from Montana to Florida with his family, where he's compelled to engage in a fight to protect a population of endangered owls, and that a tough girl at his school named Beatrice has some connection with the barefoot boy, who has some connection with vandalism at the construction site. When they realize that a population of endangered burrowing owls is threatened by new construction the kids decide to take on crooked politicians and bumbling cops in the hope of saving their new friends.

21 Jump Street

21 Jump Street

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-03-16

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

109 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (369346 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Michael Bacall (screenplay)

Michael Bacall (story)

Jonah Hill (story)

Patrick Hasburgh (television series)

Stephen J. Cannell (television series)

Fullplot:

In high school, Schmidt (Jonah Hill) was a dork and Jenko (Channing Tatum) was the popular jock. After graduation, both of them joined the police force and ended up as partners riding bicycles in the city park. Since they are young and look like high school students, they are assigned to an undercover unit to infiltrate a drug ring that is supplying high school students synthetic drugs.

The Trouble with Bliss

The Trouble with Bliss

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-03-23

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

97 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.4 (1892 Reviews)

Director:

Michael Knowles

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Michael Knowles

Douglas Light (novel)

Douglas Light

Fullplot:

A comedy/drama about 35-year-old Morris Bliss, who is clamped in the jaws of New York City inertia: he wants to travel but has no money; he needs a job but has no prospects; he still shares an apartment with his widowed father; and perhaps worst of all the premature death of his mother still lingers and has left him emotionally walled up. When he finds himself wrapped up in an awkward relationship with the sexually precocious, 18-year-old daughter of a former classmate, Morris quickly discovers his static life unraveling and opening up in ways that are long overdue.

The Spectacular Now

The Spectacular Now

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-09-13

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (87796 Reviews)

Director:

James Ponsoldt

Cast:

Writer:

Scott Neustadter (screenplay)

Michael H. Weber (screenplay)

Tim Tharp (novel)

Fullplot:

Sutter Keely lives in the now. It's a good place for him. A high school senior, charming and self-possessed, he's the life of the party, loves his job at a men's clothing store, and has no plans for the future. A budding alcoholic, he's never far from his supersized, whiskey-fortified thirst-master cup. But after being dumped by his girlfriend, Sutter gets drunk and wakes up on a lawn with Aimee Finecky hovering over him. She's different: the "nice girl" who reads science fiction and doesn't have a boyfriend. While Aimee has dreams of a future, Sutter lives in the impressive delusion of a spectacular now, yet somehow, they're drawn together.

Short Term 12

Short Term 12

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-08-23

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

96 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(42659 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

At a foster-care facility for at-risk teenagers, Grace is a young counselor trying to do her best for kids who often have been pulled from the worst kinds of home situations. Even then, life is not easy as Grace and her colleagues care for kids who are too often profoundly scarred, even as they try to have lives of their own. Now, things are coming to a head as Grace readies for marriage even as some her charges are coming to major turning points in their lives. To cope, Grace will have to make difficult perceptions and decisions that could put her career, and more importantly her charges, at dire risk.

Room

Room

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2015-10-16

Languages:

English

Countries:

Ireland

Runtime:

118 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (100 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Emma Donoghue (novel)

Emma Donoghue (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A modern-day story about the boundless love between mother and child; young Jack knows nothing of the world except for the single room in which he was born and raised.

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