77% (3) Me and Earl and the Dying Girl 105 min, PG-13, [Comedy, Drama, Romance] [Alfonso Gomez-Rejon] [01 Jul 2015]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 78%, Rotten Tomatoes: 81%, Metacritic: 74%, External Reviews
Awards: 17 wins & 29 nominations.
Actors: Nick Offerman, Olivia Cooke, RJ Cyler, Thomas Mann
Writer: Jesse Andrews (screenplay by), Jesse Andrews (based on the novel by)
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA
Plot: Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
Rotten Tomatoes: Winner of the 2015 Sundance Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award, ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL is the story of Greg Gaines (Thomas Mann), an awkward high school senior whose mom forces him to spend time with Rachel - a girl in his class (Olivia Cooke) with whom he hasn't spoken to since kindergarten - who was just diagnosed with cancer. (C) Fox Searchlight
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75% (3) Hearts Beat Loud 97 min, PG-13, [Comedy, Drama, Music] [Brett Haley] [08 Jun 2018]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 69%, Rotten Tomatoes: 91%, Metacritic: 65%, External Reviews
Actors: Blythe Danner, Kiersey Clemons, Nick Offerman, Toni Collette
Writer: Brett Haley, Marc Basch
External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA
Plot: A father and daughter form an unlikely songwriting duo in the summer before she leaves for college.
Rotten Tomatoes: Widower and aging Brooklyn hipster Frank starts a band with his teenage daughter Sam just before she leaves home to attend college in California. When a song of theirs finds success online, it complicates Frank's attempts to let go of his dreams of stardom and allow his daughter to find her own path in life.
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74% (3) Smashed 81 min, R, [Drama] [James Ponsoldt] [14 Dec 2012]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 68%, Rotten Tomatoes: 83%, Metacritic: 71%, External Reviews
Awards: 10 nominations.
Actors: Aaron Paul, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman
Writer: Susan Burke, James Ponsoldt
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA
Plot: Kate and Charlie Hannah have a relationship well lubricated with alcohol, but Kate finally finds her chemical appetites have gotten completely out of control. With the help of an ex-addict friend at work, Kate finds a support group that helps her begin to conquer her addictions. However, that recovery proves just part of a larger personal challenge to rebuild her life even as her marriage with her drunken husband deteriorates.
Rotten Tomatoes: Kate (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and Charlie (Aaron Paul) are a young married couple whose bond is built on a mutual love of music, laughter and drinking...especially the drinking. When Kateʼs drinking leads her to dangerous places and her job as a school teacher is put into jeopardy, she decides to join AA and get sober. With the help of her friend and sponsor Jenny, and the vice principal at her school, the awkward, but well intentioned, Mr. Davies, Kate takes steps toward improving her health and life. Sobriety isnʼt as easy as Kate had anticipated. Her new lifestyle brings to the surface a troubling relationship with her mother, facing the lies sheʼs told her employer and calls into question whether or not her relationship with Charlie is built on love or is just boozy diversion from adulthood. -- (C) Sony
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73% (3) The Founder 115 min, PG-13, [Biography, Drama, History] [John Lee Hancock] [20 Jan 2017]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 72%, Rotten Tomatoes: 82%, Metacritic: 66%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win & 3 nominations.
Actors: John Carroll Lynch, Linda Cardellini, Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman
Writer: Robert Siegel
External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English, Yiddish Country: USA
Plot: 1954. Having worked as a salesman most of his adult life, Ray Kroc has been a hustler in most senses of the word. That hustling has made him the target of derision among certain circles for peddling what have ended up being more novelty or faddish than useful products, but it has also placed more than a comfortable roof in Arlington Heights, Illinois over his and his wife Ethel's heads. Ethel, however, wishes that he placed as much effort into being at home with her than he is in selling, his current job of peddling five-spindle milkshake makers for Prince Castle which has him constantly on the road going from one drive-in restaurant to another. It is because of the beefs he has with the whole drive-in experience (bad food, bad service) in constantly eating at such establishments while on the road that he becomes enthralled with the concept of McDonald's Restaurant in San Bernardino, California, it owned and operated by brothers Richard McDonald and Maurice McDonald - Dick and Mac. Unlike most of Ray's customers who will only require one five-spindle milkshake maker at any given time, the McDonald brothers end up purchasing eight machines for their single restaurant. Primarily on Dick's initiative, the brothers have redesigned the whole concept of the drive-in restaurant to focus on quality food through a smaller menu of only the most popular items (hamburgers, fries, sodas), consistency in product so that customers know what to expect from time to time, change in the target market from lounging teenagers to families, and perhaps most importantly speed in having any order ready within seconds, many of these goals achievable through assembly line styled production. They had tried franchising previously, but failed in that they lost control over many of those aspects which made their San Bernardino restaurant successful. Despite believing Ray a bit off kilter (in other words, crazy), the McDonald brothers somewhat hesitantly enter into a contract with him to be their head of franchising. Ray's experience in the job is not without its problems, especially as his franchisees seem to be making more money than he is, he who is only breaking even. He is not averse to advancing ideas provided to him to get ahead - original ideas which are not his forte - he seeing the brothers as his biggest problem in they thinking small. These differences lead to a standoff between Ray and the brothers, the former who has a different goal for "his" business in profit and stoking his own ego seemingly his main priorities.
Rotten Tomatoes: Directed by John Lee Hancock (SAVING MR. BANKS), THE FOUNDER features the true story of how Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), a struggling salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers' speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. Writer Robert Siegel (THE WRESTLER) details how Kroc maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire. The film also stars Laura Dern as Ray Kroc's first wife Ethel; John Carroll Lynch as Mac McDonald and Nick Offerman as Dick McDonald.
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70% (3) The Kings of Summer 95 min, R, [Adventure, Comedy, Drama] [Jordan Vogt-Roberts] [23 Aug 2013]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 72%, Rotten Tomatoes: 77%, Metacritic: 61%, External Reviews
Awards: 5 wins & 9 nominations.
Actors: Gabriel Basso, Moises Arias, Nick Offerman, Nick Robinson
Writer: Chris Galletta
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA
Plot: Joe Toy, on the verge of adolescence, finds himself increasingly frustrated by his single father, Frank's attempts to manage his life. Declaring his freedom once and for all, he escapes to a clearing in the woods with his best friend, Patrick, and a strange kid named Biaggio. He announces that they are going to build a house there, free from responsibility and parents. Once their makeshift abode is finished, the three young men find themselves masters of their own destiny, alone in the woods.
Rotten Tomatoes: Premiering to rave reviews at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, THE KINGS OF SUMMER is a unique coming-of-age comedy about three teenage friends - Joe (Nick Robinson), Patrick (Gabriel Basso) and the eccentric and unpredictable Biaggio (Moises Arias) - who, in the ultimate act of independence, decide to spend their summer building a house in the woods and living off the land. Free from their parents' rules, their idyllic summer quickly becomes a test of friendship as each boy learns to appreciate the fact that family - whether it is the one you're born into or the one you create - is something you can't run away from. (c) CBS Films
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65% (2) White Fang 85 min, [Animation, Adventure] [Alexandre Espigares] [06 Jul 2018]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 70%, Metacritic: 61%, External Reviews
Actors: Eddie Spears, Nick Offerman, Paul Giamatti, Rashida Jones
Writer: Jack London (original novel), Philippe Lioret (scenario, adaptation and dialogue), Serge Frydman (scenario, adaptation and dialogue), Dominique Monfery (scenario, adaptation and dialogue)
External Links: IMDb Language: French, English Country: France, Luxembourg, USA
Plot: Based on the timeless novel by Jack London. A loyal wolfdog's curiosity leads him on the adventure of a lifetime while serving a series of three distinctly different masters.
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66% (1) Nick Offerman: American Ham 78 min, [Documentary, Comedy] [Jordan Vogt-Roberts] [12 Dec 2014]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 66%, External Reviews
Actors: Marc Evan Jackson, Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman
Writer: Nick Offerman
External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA
Plot: A live taping of Nick Offerman's one-man show at New York's historic Town Hall theater, featuring a collection of anecdotes, songs and woodworking/oral-sex techniques.
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