Stream Guide: The Butterfly Effect & Alien (January 4th, 2019)

SUPPORT THE GIRLS

Original Release Date: August 24, 2018
Directed by: Andrew Bujalski
Studio: Magnolia Pictures
Streaming: Hulu

Official Synopsis: The general manager at a highway-side ”sports bar with curves” has her incurable optimism and faith, in her girls, her customers, and herself, tested over the course of a long, strange day.

Starring: Regina Hall, Haley Lu Richardson, James Le Gros, AJ Michalka, Dylan Gelula, Shayna McHayle, Lea DeLaria, Jana Kramer, and Brooklyn Decker

THE GIRL NEXT DOOR

Original Release Date: April 9, 2004
Directed by: Luke Greenfield
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Streaming: HBO Go

Official Synopsis: A teenager’s dreams come true when a former porn star moves in next door and they fall in love.

Starring: Emile Hirsch, Elisha Cuthbert, Timothy Olyphant, James Remar, Chris Marquette and Paul Dano

CHINATOWN

Original Release Date: June 20, 1974
Directed by: Roman Polanski
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Streaming: Hulu

47TH ACADEMY AWARDS
Best Picture (Nominee)
Best Director (Nominee)
Best Original Screenplay (Winner)
Best Leading Actor (Jack Nicholson) (Nominee)
Best Leading Actor (Faye Dunaway) (Nominee)
Best Cinematography (Nominee)
Best Film Editing (Nominee)
Best Original Score (Nominee)
Best Costume Design (Nominee)
Best Art Direction (Nominee)
Best Sound (Nominee)

Official Synopsis: A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.

Starring: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, Diane Ladd, and John Hillerman

THE VIRGIN SUICIDES

Original Release Date: April 21, 2000
Directed by: Sofia Coppola
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Streaming: Hulu

Official Synopsis: A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid 1970s.

Starring: James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, Scott Glenn, Michael Paré, and Danny DeVito

THE CABIN IN THE WOODS

Original Release Date: April 13, 2012
Directed by: Drew Goddard
Studio: Lionsgate Films
Streaming: Tubi TV

Official Synopsis: Five friends go for a break at a remote cabin, where they get more than they bargained for, discovering the truth behind the cabin in the woods.

Starring: Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams, Richard Jenkins, and Bradley Whitford

THE MASTER

Original Release Date: September 14, 2012
Directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Streaming: Roku

85TH ACADEMY AWARDS
Best Leading Actor (Joaquin Phoenix) (Nominee)
Best Supporting Actor (Philip Seymour Hoffman) (Nominee)
Best Supporting Actress (Amy Adams) (Nominee)

Official Synopsis: A Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future – until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader.

Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Laura Dern, Jesse Plemons, and Rami Malek

WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY

Original Release Date: June 30, 1971
Directed by: Mel Stuart
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Streaming: Prime Video

44TH ACADEMY AWARDS
Best Music, Scoring Adaptation and Original Song Score (Nominee)

Official Synopsis: A poor but hopeful boy seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka’s mysterious chocolate factory.

Starring: Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Michael Bollner, Denise Nickerson, and Ursula Reit

LEAVE NO TRACE

Original Release Date: June 29, 2018
Directed by: Debra Granik
Studio: Bleecker Street
Streaming: Prime Video

Official Synopsis: A father and his thirteen year-old daughter are living an ideal existence in a vast urban park in Portland, Oregon, when a small mistake derails their lives forever.

Starring: Ben Foster, Thomasin McKenzie, Jeff Kober, Dale Dickey, Ayanna Berkshire, and Isaiah Stone

ALIEN

Original Release Date: May 25, 1979
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Streaming: Crackle

52ND ACADEMY AWARDS
Best Art Direction (Nominee)
Best Visual Effects (Winner)

Official Synopsis: After a space merchant vessel perceives an unknown transmission as a distress call, its landing on the source moon finds one of the crew attacked by a mysterious lifeform, and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.

Starring: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, and Yaphet Kotto

THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT

Original Release Date: January 23, 2004
Directed by: Eric Bress & J. Mackye Gruber
Studio: New Line Cinema
Streaming: Netflix

Official Synopsis: Evan Treborn suffers blackouts during significant events of his life. As he grows up, he finds a way to remember these lost memories and a supernatural way to alter his life by reading his journal.

Starring: Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, Melora Walters, Ethan Suplee, Elden Henson, and William Lee Scott