MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Adam Sandler (Happy Gilmore), Rosemarie DeWitt (Rachel Getting Married), Jennifer Garner (Dallas Buyers Club), Judy Greer (The Descendants), Dean Norris (Breaking Bad), Ansel Elgort (The Fault In Our Stars), Kaitlyn Dever (Short Term 12), Dennis Haysbert (Sin City: A Dame To Kill For), J.K. Simmons (Spider-Man), David Denman (After Earth), Jason Douglas (A Scanner Darkly), Olivia Crocicchia (Palo Alto), Elena Kampouris (Labor Day), Emma Thompson (Saving Mr. Banks)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Jason Reitman (Up In The Air), director, writer, producer; Erin Cressida Wilson (Chloe), writer; Helen Estabrook (Labor Day), producer; Eric Steelberg (Juno), cinematographer; Dana E. Glauberman (Thank You For Smoking), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

A group of high school students, including Tim (Elgort) and Brandy (Dever), as well as their parents, including married couple Don (Sandler) and Helen (DeWitt), overprotective mother Patricia (Garner) and pushy stage-parent Donna (Greer), attempt to navigate the many ways in which the evolved use of the internet, social media etc has affected their personal lives, their relationships with other people, their sense of self-image and their basic understanding of communication…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Jason Reitman, director of Juno and Up In The Air, returns with a powerful and affective study of human interaction in the age of the smartphone.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 5TH DECEMBER 2014

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