Fun Friday: Fall Movies from Flipped to Harry Potter to Narnia
Tuesday, to help Ruth celebrate her birthday, we met up with Joan Shoup and Lori Benton for lunch (and of course a visit to Davis Kidd Booksellers next door):
I wish we could have spent all day with them, but Lori had some more site seeing she wanted to do before heading home to Oregon. So after lunch, and after a stroll around Green Hills mall and a stop for frappuccinos at Starbucks, Ruth and I went to go see a sweet little film called Flipped. Written and produced by Rob Reiner—the guy behind some other sweet little films like When Harry Met Sally and The Princess Bride. And just like those movies, I have a feeling this one will prove to be a sleeper hit.
(For my fellow Losties: Madeline Carroll, the young woman in the female lead—not the little girl, but the teenager—in Flipped played Annie, the young girl who carved the dolls for young Ben in the episode “The Man Behind the Curtain.”)
It’s a cute, cute movie with a unique storytelling style—showing first his viewpoint of a scene, then “flipping” to show her viewpoint of the same scene. Both Madeline Carroll, as Juli, and Callan McAuliffe, as Bryce, are fantastic in their roles (and give that Callan McAuliffe ten more years and he’ll be burning up the screens in every romantic movie being produced!), and the supporting cast, from Aidan Quinn and Penelope Ann Miller as Juli’s parents to Anthony Edwards and Rebecca DeMornay as Bryce’s parents, are fabulous—as is to be expected in a Rob Reiner film. This is one not to be missed.
We also saw previews for Secretariat:
and Life As We Know It:
both of which we’re considering going to see to tide us over until November 19:
And then it’s only a few weeks until the release of Voyage of the Dawn Treader:
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Ooooooo, I hadn’t seen those trailers! Life As We Know It looks really good. And I think I will need to go read that Harry Potter book again, because that trailer did not look familiar at all! Wow….it’s been awhile since I’ve read those books.
Thanks for sharing!
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You’ve succeeded. Now I want to go to the movies!!! I’ve been excited about HP for a long time. The idea that they’re taking the last book and making 2 movies of it makes me think they’re sticking closer to the story than in previous movies. And I can SO see how they’re splitting it! I think, if it hadn’t been for the fact that she wanted 7 books for the 7 years at Hogwarts, she could definitely have made that last one two separate books.
“Life” sounds like a great movie, as does “Flipped.” Of course I want to see “Secretariat” because a lot was filmed in KY, according to a Lexington friend of mine.
Thanks for sharing! Recovered yet? LOL
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Regina, Secretariat was filmed here in Kentucky. I remember they filmed at Keeneland and I think some other places too.
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Hey, do you realize the three titles in your heading were books before they were movies? How cool is that? It will be interesting to see how Flipped compares to the book. Glad to hear you like it. And I totally didn’t realize that another Narnia movie is coming out!!! I loved the Voyage of the Dawn Treder…and Reepicheep!!!!! (hope I spelled his name right.)
Oh — and happy National Punctuation Day!!!!!!!
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Flipped looks good. Harry Potter looks incredible. Could it be the movie will finally do justice to the book?
That was such a cool bookstore. Panera for lunch and Davis Kidd Booksellers for dessert… for a tiny moment I wished my town was bigger.
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I hadn’t seen previews for Flipped. It looks great!!
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