So many movies opening on Christmas Day. Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant, Jennifer Lawrence in Joy, Will Smith, Concussion, Will Ferrell, Daddy’s Home.
The Revenant. Leading the pack with an 8.6 IMDb Pro-rating. Rated R. Based on a true story. While exploring the uncharted wilderness in the 1800s, legendary frontiersman Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) sustains injuries from a brutal bear attack. When his hunting team leaves him for dead, Glass must utilize his survival skills to find a way back home to his beloved family. Grief-stricken and fueled by vengeance, Glass treks through the wintry terrain to track down John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy), the confidant who betrayed and abandoned him.
Joy. A true story of a family across four generations, centered on the girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty with a simple mop, and becomes a matriarch in her own right. Facing betrayal, treachery, the loss of innocence and the scars of love, Joy becomes a true boss of family and enterprise in a world of unforgiving commerce. Allies become adversaries and adversaries become allies, both inside and outside the family, as Joy’s inner life and fierce imagination carry her through the storm she faces. Jennifer Lawrence brings the Joyful sparkle with Bradley Cooper, Robert DeNiro.
Concussion. Will Smith stars as Dr. Bennet Omalu, a Nigerian doctor, who while conducting an autopsy on former NFL football player Mike Webster (David Morse), discovers neurological deterioration that is similar to Alzheimer’s disease. Omalu names the disorder chronic traumatic encephalopathy and publishes his findings in a medical journal. As other athletes face the same diagnosis, the crusading doctor embarks on a mission to raise public awareness about the dangers of football-related head trauma.
Daddy’s Home. Comedy with Will Ferrell as the eager to please Step-Dad who can’t do anything right in comparison to Real-Dad, Mark Wahlberg.
The Hateful 8. Quentin Tarantino. Has an 8.3 IMDb Pro-Rating. While racing toward the town of Red Rock in post-Civil War Wyoming, bounty hunter John “The Hangman” Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his fugitive prisoner (Jennifer Jason Leigh), encounter another bounty hunter (Samuel L. Jackson) and a man who claims to be a sheriff. Hoping to find shelter from a blizzard, the group travels to a stagecoach stopover located on a mountain pass. Greeted there by four strangers, the eight travelers soon learn that they may not make it to their destination after all.
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