Movies for Jan.

From Bob & Bernie:

The Movies for Jan.

Jan 5th: Invictus

President Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) attempts to reconcile South Africa's racial groups after apartheid. Recognizing the importance of the rugby World Cup to South Africa's powerful white minority, Mandela works with the South African national team's captain, Francois Pienaar (Matt Damon) to improve the team and inspire South Africans to rally behind the team. This decision is met with some controversy amongst Mandela's staff, as he is also meant to be tackling South Africa's huge domestic challenges, such as rising crime, high black unemployment, and the effects of international sanctions on the South African economy.

 

Jan 12th: Eat, Pray, Love

Liz Gilbert (Julia Roberts) wakes up one day and realizes her life is utterly unfulfilling. The life that she thought was complete isn’t enough as she tries to get away from it all. Leaving her normal life behind, Liz sets out to find some adventure. Her adventures take her from finding the best food in Italy and a wonderful friend in Nyomo (I. Gusto Ayu Puspawati) then to India where she realizes the power of prayer can heal all things and finally she arrives in Bali where The Guru (Gitta Reddy) helps her understand all things by finding inner peace.

Jan 19th: It's Complicated

Jane (Meryl Streep) is doing well, but is middle-aged and divorced for many years. She accidentally reconnects with her re-married, lawyer ex-husband, Jake (Alec Baldwin), and they are surprised to find themselves in an affair. Of course, Jane also meets Adam (Steve Martin), her architect, who is also the first man who has shown genuine interest in her. But Adam is crushed when he discovers Jane is seeing Jake again. And Jake is devastated when in one day he finds himself unhappy with his young new wife Agness (Lake Bell), and rejected by Jane. The grown children are strangely shocked and angry about what is happening between their parents, but want them to be happy. Jane resolves to do what is right for her, and to go forward with her life.

 

Jan 26th: A Good Year

Max Skinner (Russel Crowe), is a self-made high powered very rich investment banker with no morals. The movie opens with his scheme of playing the market and selling a tremendous amount of shares as soon as all the other investment firms begin to buy. Then he sells at the top crashing the market and the other investment firms. This kind of day trading epitomizes his every day life and just as the market is busy busy busy, so is Max. But then he gets a letter. The uncle that he used to spend summers with as a child in the France Provence has died and left him the entire wine estate. He decides to put it on the market, so off he flies to France. It is in the Provence that mishaps lead to transformation. He meets a girl, meets his never known cousin, and finds out that his grapes are the stock of the best wine in the region. He remembers the good life and decides to quit being a banker and become a vintner.