Film (2012)
Directed by Tom Hooper
Book by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil
Based on the novel by Victor Hugo
With Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Sacha Baron Cohen, Helena Bonham Carter,
A long, but entertaining and quite moving, cinematic reproduction of the blockbuster musical based on the Victor Hugo novel of 1862, starring a lot of lot of big names singing on their own steam, some surprisingly well.
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Zero Dark Thirty
Film (2012)
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow
Screenplay by Mark Boal
A superbly produced thriller about tracking and assassinating Osama bin Laden.
The Impossible
Film (2012)
Directed by Juan Antonio Bayona
Screenplay by Sergio G. Sánchez
Story by María Belón
An account of a Spanish family in Thailand during the tsunami of December, 2004, based on a true story.
Silver Linings Playbook
Film (2012)
Written and directed
by David O. Russell
A film about a man with bipolar disorder who develops a friendship with a woman who faces mental and emotional challenges of her own.
Django Unchained
Film (2012)
Written and Directed by
Quentin Tarantino
A brutally violent takeoff on a shoot ’em up Western, with the notable and distinctive enhancements of a German bounty hunter and a freed African-American slave.