Movies Opening In Cinemas On September 23
Every Tuesday, Film Inquiry compiles a list of the movies that are opening in cinemas. Opening this week are The Magnificent Seven, Queen Of Katwe, The Dressmaker, Girl Asleep, Closet Monster, Storks, Beauty and The Beast, Dirty 30, I.T., Goat, End of a Gun, Audrie & Daisy, My Blind Brother, Generation Startup and The Lovers and the Despot.
Note that these are based on the opening dates in the United States. If you’re looking for the opening dates for a certain movie in your country, click the ‘international release dates” below the movie details.
Opening in Cinemas This Week:
The Magnificent Seven (2016)
2h 12min – Action, Western
Seven gun men in the old west gradually come together to help a poor village against savage thieves.
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Writers: Richard Wenk, Nic Pizzolatto
Stars: Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke
International Release Dates
Queen of Katwe (2016)
2h 4min – Biography, Drama, Sport
An Ugandan girl sees her world rapidly change after being introduced to the game of chess.
Director: Mira Nair
Writers: William Wheeler
Stars: Madina Nalwanga, David Oyelowo, Lupita Nyong’o
The Dressmaker (2015)
1h 58min – Drama
A glamorous woman returns to her small town in rural Australia. With her sewing machine and haute couture style, she transforms the women and exacts sweet revenge on those who did her wrong.
Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse
Writers: P.J. Hogan
Stars: Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth
Storks (2016)
1h 29min – Animation, Comedy, Family
Storks have moved on from delivering babies to packages. But when an order for a baby appears, the best delivery stork must scramble to fix the error by delivering the baby.
Directors: Nicholas Stoller, Doug Sweetland
Writer: Nicholas Stoller
Stars: Andy Samberg, Katie Crown, Kelsey Grammer
Girl Asleep (2015)
1h 17min – Family
The world is closing in on Greta Driscoll. On the cusp of turning fifteen she can’t bear to leave her childhood, it contains all the things that give her comfort in this incomprehensible new world.
Director: Rosemary Myers
Writer: Matthew Whittet
Stars: Bethany Whitmore, Harrison Feldman, Matthew Whittet
Closet Monster (2015)
1h 30min – Drama
A creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood.
Director: Stephen Dunn
Writer: Stephen Dunn
Stars: Aaron Abrams, Jack Fulton, Joanne Kelly
Beauty & The Beast (2016)
1h 52min – Fantasy, Romance
An unexpected romance blooms after the the youngest daughter of a merchant who has fallen on hard times offers herself to the mysterious beast to which her father has become indebted.
Director: Christophe Gans
Writers: Sandra Vo-Anh, Christophe Gans
Stars: Vincent Cassel, Léa Seydoux, André Dussollier
I.T. (2016)
1h 35min – Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mike Regan has everything he could ever want, a beautiful family and a top of the line smart house. The company he owns is on the verge of changing flight leasing forever.
Director: John Moore
Writers: Dan Kay, Dan Kay, William Wisher Jr.
Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Jason Barry, Karen Moskow
Dirty 30 (2016)
1h 26min – Comedy
When the party is on, it is off the hook! Kate has only a few days to turn her life around before she turns Dirty 30, but with three besties and zero rules, anything is possible!
Director: Andrew Bush
Writers: Mamrie Hart, Molly Prather
Stars: Mamrie Hart, Adam Lustick, Joselyn Hughes
Goat (2016)
1h 36min – Drama
Reeling from a terrifying assault, a 19 year-old boy enrolls into college with his brother and pledges the same fraternity. What happens there, in the name of “brotherhood,” tests the boy and his loyalty to his brother in brutal ways.
Director: Andrew Neel
Writers: David Gordon Green, Andrew Neel, Mike Roberts
Stars: Ben Schnetzer, Nick Jonas, Gus Halper
End of a Gun (2016)
Action, Crime, Thriller
A mall security guard — and former federal agent — crosses paths with a drug kingpin’s enforcer after he saves a woman from danger.
Director: Keoni Waxman
Writers: Chuck Hustmyre, Keoni Waxman
Stars: Steven Seagal, Florin Piersic Jr., Jade Ewen
Audrie & Daisy (2016)
1h 35min – Documentary
A look at the effects that online bullying has on the lives of teenagers and their community.
Directors: Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk
Stars: Daisy Coleman, Jim Fall, Delaney Henderson
My Blind Brother (2016)
1h 25min – Comedy, Drama, Romance
The rivalry between two brothers reaches a fever pitch during a charity swim competition.
Director: Sophie Goodhart
Writer: Sophie Goodhart
Stars: Jenny Slate, Adam Scott, Zoe Kazan
Generation Startup (2016)
1h 33min – Documentary
Generation Startup takes us to the front lines of entrepreneurship in America, capturing the struggles and triumphs of six recent college graduates who put everything on the line to build startups in Detroit. Shot over 17 months, it’s an honest, in-the-trenches look at what it takes to launch a startup.
Directors: Cheryl Miller Houser, Cynthia Wade
Stars: Dextina Booker, Kate Catlin, Avery Hairston
The Lovers And The Despot (2016)
1h 38min – Documentary, Thriller
After the collapse of their glamorous romance, a famous director and actress are kidnapped by movie-obsessed dictator Kim Jong-il. Forced to make films in the world’s weirdest state, they get a second chance at love, but only one chance at escape.
Directors: Ross Adam, Robert Cannan
Writers: Ross Adam, Robert Cannan
Star: Paul Courtenay Hyu
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