Ster-Kinekor Showcases Great Line-up Of Movies For All Women

STER-KINEKOR SHOWCASES GREAT LINE-UP OF MOVIES FOR ALL WOMEN TO ENJOY DURING THE SPECIAL MONTH OF AUGUST

The month of August is synonymous with celebrating women in South Africa and Ster-Kinekor has the perfect way for women everywhere to celebrate this special month. Connect with your girlfriends, and spend some quality time together, while enjoying a feel-good film with some of Hollywood’s famous leading ladies.

The great line-up of films releasing in August include: Chef (releases on 08 August), Jersey Boys (15 August), Between Friends (15 August), Sex Tape (22 August), The Hundred Foot Journey (22 August) and Tammy (29 August). These films provide the perfect laugh, cry, love and smile together.

SYNOPSES OF THE “WOMEN’S MONTH” FILMS:

CHEF  (releases on 08 August)

In Chef, Miami-born chef, Carl Casper (Jon Favreau), is a skilled chef in a high-end Los Angeles restaurant. However, he is bored by his job having to recreate the classic dishes suggested by his controlling boss, restaurant owner Riva (Dustin Hoffman). In a stinging review by a leading restaurant critic, Ramsey Michel (Oliver Platt), Carl is called out for his lack of imagination. Introduced to Twitter by his tech-savvy son Percy (Emjay Anthony), Carl accidentally starts a social media war that results in him losing his job.

He is encouraged by his ex-wife, Inez (Sofia Vergara) and her second ex-husband, Marvin (Robert Downy Jnr), to start a Cuban food truck. Together with his son and his friend and former colleague, Martin (John Leguizamo), Carl takes to the road and travels across America, hoping to reignite his passion for food and his creative genius.

View the official trailer here: Chef Official Theatrical Trailer – YouTube

JERSEY BOYS (releases on 15 August)

Adapted from the successful stage show and the 2006 Tony Winner for Best Musical, Jersey Boys, is the bittersweet saga that dramatises the rise and fall of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. They became one of the iconic pop groups of the early ’60s, responsible for such well-known hits as “Sherry,” “Walk Like a Man” and “Big Girls Don’t Cry.”

The story opens in New Jersey, where young Francesco Castelluccio (John Lloyd Young) and his buddies face a narrow window of future career options. Their possible paths include show business on one hand and organised crime on the other – embodied by the slightly menacing yet avuncular kingpin, Angelo ‘Gyp’ DeCarlo (Christopher Walken), who runs the neighborhood and keeps an eye on them.

The boys begin to nurture dreams of becoming musical stars, goals that seem far out of reach until they invite Francesco to perform with them in their band. They rename him Frankie Valli, and his unique falsetto tenor vocals captivate the girls in the audience, which provides a sign of things to come.  The performers name themselves The Four Seasons after feeling inspired by an unusual source. Erich Bergen stars as Bob Gaudio, who wrote or co-wrote the group’s biggest hits, and Michael Lomenda and Vincent Piazza star respectively as Nick Massi and Tommy DeVito, two of the band’s original members.

However, difficulties begin to take their toll on the band, including financial problems, inner rivalries and tensions between the bandmates. Valli’s long periods on the road away from his wife and daughters puts his marriage under strain too. Jersey Boys records their lives and their enduring hit songs.

View the official trailer here: Jersey Boys Official Theatrical Trailer – YouTube

BETWEEN FRIENDS (releases on 15 August)

In Between Friends, a group of university friends reunite at an upmarket game lodge in KwaZulu-Natal, after leading separate lives for seven years. Long buried secrets that have been shared by these old friends are eventually exposed, causing tensions to arise in their current relationships.

This locally-produced romantic drama is a stylish and funny tale of the new South Africa. Directed by Zuko Nodada, it features a cast of familiar local faces. Thapelo Mokoena plays Nkanyiso, a successful entrepreneur who is reluctantly attending the reunion with his trophy girlfriend, Nisha (Amanda du Pont). The role of Njabulo, Nkanyiso’s older brother and the lodge manager, is played by Siyabonga Radebe.  The films also stars Dumisani Mbebe, Lihle Dhlomo, Siyabonga Thwala, Morne du Toit and Mandisa Nduna in her first feature film.

View the official trailer here: Between Friends Official Theatrical Trailer – YouTube

SEX TAPE (releases on 22 August)

Sex Tape sees a married couple embark on a mad dash to recover a sex tape they have made, when it accidentally goes viral, in this comedy from director, Jake Kasdan (Bad Teacher, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story).

Their once-scorching sex life has been somewhat doused by a decade of marriage and two children. Jay (Jason Segel) and Annie (Cameron Diaz) are only trying to recapture a little of that pre-marriage passion when they decide to roll the video camera as they try every position possible in ‘The Joy of Sex’.

Terror sets in with the realisation that their intimate video has been uploaded to the ‘cloud’, and synched to the iPads they gave their family and friends for Christmas. In order to save their reputations – and avoid some serious embarrassment – Jay and Annie race across town to collect each iPad. Unfortunately for them, the digital cloud works in mysterious ways!

View the official trailer here: Sex Tape Official Theatrical Trailer – YouTube

THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (releases on 22 August)

Directed by Lasse Halstrom and produced by Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg and Juliet Blake, The Hundred-Foot Journey follows the Kadam family who, led by Papa (Om Puri), is displaced from their native India. They eventually settle in the quaint village of Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val in the south of France, which they decide is the ideal place to open an Indian restaurant, the Maison Mumbai.  One of the sons, Hassan Kadam (Manish Dayal), who has a passion for food and a natural flair for combining tastes and textures, heads up the kitchen.

Just a hundred feet away, on the other side of the road, is Le Saule Pleureur, a Michelin-starred, classical French restaurant run by Madame Mallory (Academy Award®-winner Dame Helen Mirren). Her icy protests against the new Indian restaurant escalate to all-out war between the two establishments.

That is until Hassan’s passion for French haute cuisine and for Mme Mallory’s enchanting sous chef, Marguerite (Charlotte Le Bon), combine with his mysteriously delicious talent to weave magic between their two cultures and imbue Saint-Antonin with the flavours of life that even Mme Mallory cannot ignore

The Hundred-Foot Journey abounds with flavours that burst across the tongue. A stimulating triumph over exile, blossoming with passion and heart, with marjoram and madras, it is a portrayal of two worlds colliding and one boy’s drive to find the comfort of home, in every pot, no matter in whose kitchen he finds himself.

View the official trailer here: Hundred-Foot Journey Official Theatrical Trailer – YouTube

TAMMY (releases on 29 August)

In Tammy, Tammy (Melissa McCarthy) is having a bad day. She’s wrecked her wreck of a car, managed to get herself fired from her thankless job at a greasy burger joint. To top it all, she thinks she will find comfort and sympathy in the arms of her loving husband, only to get home to find her husband getting comfortable with their neighbour in her own house.

Tammy decides it’s time to take her boom box and get away from the small-town syndrome. However, the reality is that she is broke and without wheels. Even worse news is that her grandma, Pearl (Susan Sarandon), with a car, cash, and a desire to see Niagara Falls, is her only option to gap it. Not exactly the escape Tammy had in mind but, out on the open road with grandma riding shot gun, may be just what Tammy needs.

Directed by Ben Falcone, who co-wrote the film with McCarthy, the film also stars Dan Aykroyd, Kathy Bates, Allison Janney, Gary Cole, Mark Duplass, Toni Collette, Sandra Oh and Nat Faxon.

View the official trailer here: Tammy Official Theatrical Trailer – YouTube

To find out more about these wonderful films for “Women’s Month”, visit www.sterkinekor.com. Avoid the queues by booking online, by calling Ticketline on 0861-Movies (668 437) or you can book at the box office.  You can also secure your seats by downloading the Ster-Kinekor App on your Nokia, Samsung Android, iPhone and Blackberry handset, to book from your mobile. To find out what other exciting promotions Ster-Kinekor has on offer, follow @sterkinekor on Twitter or Facebook at Ster-Kinekor Theatres.