Film Clips: The Campaign

Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis run for public office, while Aaron Cross runs from scary, top-secret government organizations this weekend at the big screens.

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  • Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis run for office in The Campaign



THE BOURNE LEGACY (PG-13) When the top secret, government organization behind the creation of Jason Bourne decides to kill off all of its genetically modified agents, they had little idea how hard bringing one of them down would be. Agent Aaron Cross, who has had scientifically-engineered mutations on two of his chromosomes, is the perfect killer. Cross is faster, smarter, and stronger than even the most trained government agents. As he fights to uncover the scheme he is caught up in, Cross spirals into an international espionage journey where every step he takes is a narrow escape from death. Starring The Avengers’’ Jeremy Renner as agent Aaron Cross, this installment in the Bourne film series is an action-packed thrill ride.
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THE CAMPAIGN
(R) While we often find ourselves laughing at the expense of politician’s errors or slip-ups, funny men Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis take the comedy of political campaigns to a new level of hilarity. Ferrell plays Cam Brady, a fast-talking, slick politician who will do and say anything to be reelected for a fifth time. After running unopposed for the last four terms, Cam is surprised to learn someone is running against him. Enter Marty Huggins (Galifianakis), the director of the local tourism center who is being supported by benefactors who have hatched a plan to get Cam out of office. As their campaigns begin, it becomes clear that these two absurdly ridiculous politicians will be battling it out for every last vote.
’’HOPE SPRINGS (PG-13) Meryl Streep plays Kay, a devoted wife to Arnold (Tommy Lee Jones), who has been feeling like their decades-long marriage is missing the spice it used to have. She seeks the help of a famed marriage counselor (played by Steve Carell) in a small New England town called Hope Springs. She persuades Arnold, who is a man of routine and very conservative about his love life, to come to Hope Springs with her. As their week of therapy begins, Kay and Arnold attempt to ignite that special spark their marriage once had.
NITRO CIRCUS: THE MOVIE (3D) (PG-13) Travis Pastrana, a living action-sports legend, and his extreme friends are collectively known as the Nitro Circus. After a couple of successful seasons as a TV show on MTV, the Nitro Circus has upped the stakes and created a 3D action sports film, think Johnny Knoxville’s Jackass’’ with real extreme-sports athletes. Death-defying stunts and on-camera antics make this film an explosive spectacle.
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’’FAREWELL, MY QUEEN (R) In Versailles in 1789, France is on the brink of a revolution, with discontent towards King Louis XVI growing everyday. As the royal family’s fear grows, Queen Marie Antoinette’s world begins caving in around her. Her royal reader, Sidonie Laborde (whom the Queen shares deep affection for) must watch the downfall of her beloved Queen.

’’HARA-KIRI: DEATH OF A SAMURI (NR) A Samuri named Hanshiro plans to commit ritual suicide in the courtyard of a prominent lord in Japan when he has gone completely broke and is drenched in shame. The lord takes this as a bluff, believing that Hanshiro just wants a hand out of money. So the lord tells him the gory story of a friend who tried to make a similar protest, recounting the other Samuri’s gut-wrenching death where he slices his stomach open with a dull bamboo sword. The plot thickens when it is revealed that Hanshiro’s son was in fact the young Samuri who took his own life in the lord’s courtyard.
THE WELL DIGGER’S DAUGHTER (NR) A simple man named Pascal, who works as a well-digger in France, breaks his back to support his six daughters without the help of his deceased wife. He believes that Patricia, his beautiful daughter who is becoming a young woman, will be one day married to a wealthy, important man. But when Patricia meets Jacques, a handsome, young pilot, they fall in love and she becomes pregnant before Jacques is sent off to fight in World War II. As Jacques’ parents accuse her of blackmailing them with her pregnancy, she is forced to have her child on her own. When Jacques goes missing in action during battle, his parents seek out their illegitimate grandchild to mend the hole in their hearts from their lost son. The turmoil in Pascal’s family puts shame on them, and he must make difficult choices to protect his beloved Patricia and the rest of his family.

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