Jerry’s Savannah Film Festival Top Five
1. The Pretty
One
When a woman's identical prettier
twin sister dies, the woman assumes her sister's identity, moving into her
apartment and the big city.
2. About Tim
At the age of 21, Tim discovers he
can travel in time and change what happens and has happened in his own life.
His decision to make his world a better place by getting a girlfriend turns out
not to be as easy as you might think.
3. The Book
Thief
While subjected to the horrors of
World War II Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing
them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refugee is being
sheltered by her adoptive parents.
4. Philomena
A world-weary political journalist
picks up the story of a woman's search for her son, who was taken away from her
decades ago after she became pregnant and was forced to live in a convent.
5. Nebraska
An aging, booze-addled father makes
the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a
million dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize.
Jatin’s
Twin Cities Film Festival Top Five
1.
We
Are What We Are
As
an unrelenting downpour continues to flood a small town, the local authorities
begin to uncover clues that bring them closer to the secret that the Parkers, a
seemingly wholesome and benevolent family, have held closely for so many years.
2.
Winter
in the Blood
Virgil wakes
in a ditch on the hardscrabble plains of Montana, hungover and badly beaten. He
returns home to his ranch on the reservation, only to find that his wife,
Agnes, has left him. Worse, she's taken his beloved rifle. Virgil sets out of
town find her - or perhaps just the gun - beginning a hi-line odyssey of
inebriated and possibly imagined intrigues in town with the mysterious
"Airplane Man", a beautiful barmaid, and two dangerous Men in Suits.
Are they real? Or spirits guiding him away from his true path?
3.
The
Armstrong Lie
Four years
ago, Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney was commissioned to film Lance
Armstrong's second comeback, for the 2009 Tour de France. Years later,
following Armstrong's cheating confessions, Gibney returned to his original
source material, discovering in the process an electrifying, red-handed
portrait of a liar in action.
4.
August:
Osage County
A dark,
hilarious and deeply touching story of the strong-willed women of the Weston
family, whose lives have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the
Midwestern house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised
them.
5.
Mandela:
Long Walk to Freedom
Based on
South African President Nelson Mandela's autobiography of the same name, which
chronicles his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years in prison
before becoming President and working to rebuild the country's once segregated
society.
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