7 Movies Starring Christina Hendricks

Detachment

Detachment

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-02-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

98 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (50904 Reviews)

Director:

Tony Kaye

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Detachment is a chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of a substitute teacher named Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment. A perfect profession for one seeking to hide out in the open. One day Henry arrives at his next assignment. Upon his entry into this particular school, a secret world of emotion is awakened within him by three women. A girl named Meredith in his first period. A fellow teacher Ms. Madison, and a street hooker named Erica, whom Henry has personally granted brief shelter from the streets. Each one of these women, like Henry, are in a life and death struggle to find beauty in a seemingly vicious and loveless world.

All-Star Superman

All-Star Superman

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-02-22

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

76 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

(8346 Reviews)

Director:

Sam Liu

Cast:

Writer:

Jerry Siegel (creator)

Joe Shuster (creator)

Grant Morrison (graphic novel)

Frank Quitely (graphic novel)

Dwayne McDuffie

Fullplot:

While saving the crew of the first manned mission to the sun, Superman is poisoned by solar radiation. Dying, he decides to fulfill his lifelong dreams, while still saving the Earth from various threats. But when Lex Luthor reveals his latest plot to control the world, Superman must use his remaining strength to stop him.

I Don't Know How She Does It

I Don't Know How She Does It

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-09-16

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

89 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

4.8 (15437 Reviews)

Director:

Douglas McGrath

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Aline Brosh McKenna (screenplay)

Allison Pearson (novel)

Fullplot:

A comedy centered on the life of Kate Reddy, a finance executive who is the breadwinner for her husband and two kids.

Ginger & Rosa

Ginger & Rosa

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-10-19

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, Denmark, Canada, Croatia

Runtime:

90 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (6953 Reviews)

Director:

Sally Potter

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

London, 1962. Two teenage girls - Ginger and Rosa -- are inseparable; they play truant together, discuss religion, politics and hairstyles, and dream of lives bigger than their mothers' frustrated domesticity. But, as the Cold War meets the sexual revolution, and the threat of nuclear holocaust escalates, the lifelong friendship of the two girls is shattered - by the clash of desire and the determination to survive.

Lost River

Lost River

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2015-04-10

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.8 (7547 Reviews)

Director:

Ryan Gosling

Fullplot:

"Lost River" is a dark fairy tale about love, family and the fight for survival in the face of danger. In the virtually abandoned city of Lost River, Billy (Christina Hendricks), a single mother of two, is led into a macabre underworld in her quest to save her childhood home and hold her family together. Her teenage son Bones (Iain De Casestecker) discovers a mystery about the origins of Lost River that triggers his curiosity and sets into motion an unexpected journey that will test his limits and the limits of those he loves.

The Pirate Fairy

The Pirate Fairy

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-02-13

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

78 min

Rated:

G

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (8786 Reviews)

Director:

Peggy Holmes

Cast:

Writer:

Jeffrey M. Howard (screenplay)

Kate Kondell (screenplay)

John Lasseter (story)

Peggy Holmes (story)

Roberts Gannaway (story)

Jeffrey M. Howard (story)

Lorna Cook (story)

Craig Gerber (story)

Fullplot:

When a misunderstood dust-keeper fairy named Zarina steals Pixie Hollow's all-important Blue Pixie Dust, and flies away to join forces with the pirates of Skull Rock, Tinker Bell and her fairy friends must embark on the adventure of a lifetime to return it to its rightful place. However, in the midst of their pursuit of Zarina, Tink's world is turned upside down. She and her friends find that their respective talents have been switched and they have to race against time to retrieve the Blue Pixie Dust and return home to save Pixie Hollow.

God's Pocket

God's Pocket

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-08-08

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

88 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (6223 Reviews)

Director:

John Slattery

Genres:

CrimeDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Peter Dexter (novel)

Alex Metcalf (screenplay)

John Slattery (screenplay)

Fullplot:

When Mickey's crazy step-son Leon is killed in a construction 'accident', nobody in the working class neighborhood of God's Pocket is sorry he's gone. Mickey tries to bury the bad news with the body, but when the boy's mother demands the truth, Mickey finds himself stuck in a life-and-death struggle between a body he can't bury, a wife he can't please and a debt he can't pay.

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