Luke Grimes

Ellie Kemper

Gus Birney

Blythe Danner

A year after getting divorced, Helen Carpenter, thirty-two, lets her annoying, ten years younger brother talk her into signing up for a wilderness survival course. It's supposed to be a chance for her to pull herself together again, but when she discovers that her brother's even-more-annoying best friend is also coming on the trip, she can't imagine how it will be anything other than a disaster.

Happiness for Beginners

Happiness for Beginners (2023)

Owen Browning (Adam DeVine) is a young bank manager about to marry Parker McDermott (Nina Dobrev), whose estranged parents contact her to come to the wedding. He's excited he's finally going to meet them, as she's concerned they can be a bit much.Owen's parents Neil (Richard Kind) and Margie (Julie Hagerty) are difficult. Owen calls to tell them the good news about Parker's parents attending the wedding. He first has to hear about an odd nickel allergy of a guest, then they show their ignorance of Parker's profession as a yoga instructor, believing it involves a stripper pole. Rather than being happy about the news that the other in-laws are coming, they criticize them for being absent in Parker's life.At the bank, Owen has to free an employee who's been played upon by being locked in the vault. So, he shows and talks about how state-of-the-art their bank's security system is. They point out their rival bank's vault security is considered the best in the state. Owen also points out all vaults have an emergency escape latch.Out at dinner with his parents, they talk about the soon appearance of Parker's parents. Meanwhile, Owen talks with the storage space facility where Parker's parents rent a locker as he's hoping to access photos of the Parkers for a wedding photo montage. His call inadvertently alerts the crime boss Rehan (Poorna Jagannathan) to their return, when the storage space manager tells Rehan about Owen inquiring about the McDermott's locker.The following night, the McDermotts let themselves into their home while Parker is still out leading a yoga class and scare Owen. They insist he calls them Billy (Pierce Brosnan) and Lilly (Ellen Barkin). Owen and Parker tell Billy and Lilly that they met at Parker's yoga class due to Owen's hip issues. He went to her class for a year and a half before Parker finally asked him out.
The next day, Owen takes off work to spend the day with the in-laws. They pick the agenda, so they go skydiving, get tattoos, and drink. The McDermotts are adventure freaks while Owen is a totally laid back, peace loving, normal guy.The next day, an infamous full-costumed pair of criminals called the "Ghost Bandits" hold up the bank. As the robbery occurs during his wedding week, specific indicators such as the male's cologne, flashbacks to the bar, and what he told Lilly the previous day lead Owen to believe that the robbers might be his future in-laws. Owen had told Lilly about all the codes and the security measures to break into the vault.
Unknown to Owen, Rehan had met Billy at the bar the previous night. Billy had told Owen that he knows nothing.FBI special agent Roger Oldham (Michael Rooker) questions Owen as the bank manager with his in-laws behind him. Not able to say anything, Parker insists they leave once he breaks out in tears. Oldham has dedicated most of his career chasing the Ghost Bandits and he's convinced they are behind the robbery.
Owen know that if the McDermotts robbed the bank, then he did too, as he told Lilly the codes.Trying to enlist his parents' help in outing the McDermotts, Owen tells them his suspicions. They do ask direct inappropriate questions at dinner, but Billy and Lilly expertly redirect the conversation. Parker later asks Owen, but she thinks his theory is crazy.The next day, Owen follows his in-laws to Rehan's and hears her threaten to kill Parker if they don't get her $5,000,000 more before the wedding. Billy had just paid Rehan $ 1 million, as that was the amount that Billy and Lilly stole from her. But Rehan wants the $ 5 million as penalties and interest. She gives them till end of the week to come up with the cash.
Oldham stops Owen on the highway, finds planted evidence in the trunk (burner phones, voice modulators which makes it look like Owen robbed his own bank), and spills it on his in-laws. Oldham puts a wire on him, hoping to get the McDermotts to confess. Instead, Rehan shows up with her henchmen and takes Parker hostage as insurance. Disgusted, Owen joins forces with his in-laws.
McDermotts say that Rehan was their partner. She would choose the banks. But she started losing it and they were afraid that they would find out about Parker. So, at the last heist, they took the money and ran.
Owen says that he knows everything about banks and can help them rob $ 5 million in 2 days.They first choose Victory Union Bank to rob as the bank manager is lazy. However, they lose most of the cash through a comedy of errors. They are able to steal the money from the armored car which was taking the cash from the bank, but the security kicks in and due to Owen's ineptitude, their getaway car is disabled. Owen eventually gets into the armored car, and rescues Billy and Lilly. But the cash was in their getaway car. They are pursued by the police, but Owen drives through a cemetery. The armored car smashes through the headstones, but the cop cars are not able to.So, then they focus on Atlas Reserve. Owen goes in, asking it's manager Phoebe King (Lauren Lapkus) how he can better equip his bank. Phoebe is the best bank manager in the business and every inch of her bank is triple secured. Phoebe's arrogance kicks in, so she shows him all of the safeguards with him. Just as the safe open, the McDermotts create a diversion out front while Owen locks himself in and then uses the emergency escape latch to escape with the money.At the ransom drop, Rehan is pleasantly surprised that Owen brought the money, but will kill them anyway. He miraculously guns them down as the McDermotts distract the cops so Owen can sneak back into the vault with the money.As the McDermotts turn themselves in and help Oldham with his ex, he lets them go briefly to Owen and Parker's wedding reception.
During the credits, Owen slips a paperclip into a piece of cake for his new in-laws to use to get free of their handcuffs.

The Out-Laws

The Out-Laws (2023)

After a particularly disheartening work day at her local gift shop, Renée makes a Christmas wish for a different life. She wakes up in a NYC high rise as the CEO of one of the most successful meal kit delivery companies in the world. Everything is seemingly perfect except for one thing - she's no longer married to her beloved husband. Is her new life too full to include her husband or is she destined to win him back?

Take Me Back for Christmas

Take Me Back for Christmas (2023)

The film depicts the meteoric rise in popularity of Beanie Babies. Beanie Bubble tells the story behind the Beanie Baby toy obsession that took off in the 1990s. It follows the story of toy manufacturer turned billionaire Ty Warner, and centers around the women who were integral to his success. Robbie, Sheila, and Maya help turn Beanie Babies into the coveted products they became. The women are based on three real women, Patricia Roche, Faith McGowan, and Lina Trivedi, each of whom played an integral role in the rising popularity of Beanie Babies.

The Beanie Bubble

The Beanie Bubble (2023)

After an oil refinery in Iraq owned by Chinese firm Unicorp gets attacked by mercenaries led by Owen Paddock (Pilou Asbaek). The refinery is led by Director of Operations Professor Cheng, who invites private security firms to lead a rescue operation for the civilians at the refinery.Ex-special forces soldier "Dragon" Luo Feng (Jackie Chan) leads his private security company in evacuating the civilian employees in a convoy along the Highway of Death to the safety of the Green Zone.
Cheng tells Feng that the mercenaries wanted control of the refinery and did not want to destroy it. Cheng shuts down the refinery before leaving with Feng in a rescue convoy. Luo Mei (Ma Chunrui) is Cheng's assistant.
Feng answered Cheng's call as Mei is his estranged daughter.Meanwhile, needing money to fix a well in a rural village, former US Marine Chris Van Horne (John Cena) reluctantly joins his mercenary brother Henry (Amadeus Serafini) in attacking the convoy. Henry claims they are tracking down a man responsible for attacking them years earlier, which led to the death of 5 of their comrades.
The village is out of water, and Chris needs $100,000 to bribe Unicorp, who control the water supply to the village. Owen is the middleman between Chris and Unicorp, and he paints Unicorp as the main villain to Chris.The mercenaries create a massive sandstorm and use it to cover their attack. After the convoy fends them off and clears the sandstorm, Feng discovers that 2 buses out of 11 have been kidnapped, including Professor Cheng who has the authorization codes to the oil refinery.
Feng brings back his helicopters and asks for Mei's help to search for the missing buses. Chris manages to fight off one helicopter and escapes with Cheng into the desert canyons.
Feng finds the missing buses and finds that 5 engineers including Cheng have been taken hostage.Chris confronts Henry concerning the kidnapping as he is not convinced that Cheng was responsible for the death of their comrades. Chris wants to know who hired him and Henry. Owen reveals himself as the mastermind. Owen says that he worked for Unicorp for 16 years and got nothing. Now, this is his time to get rich.
Owen tells him that he intends to reactivate the refinery and profit off the oil trade. Owen wants Chris to keep Feng away from Cheng, and only then he will pay what he owes Chris and Henry.
After an enraged Chris leaves, Owen shoots Henry for failing to kill Feng.Feng tracks down Chris as he travels across the desert in his dune buggy and confronts him. Chris believes that feng shot Henry, while Feng believes that Chris killed his men. Chris and Feng team together to fight off the French, who had supplied weapons to Chris and Henry, and are now contracted by Owen to kill Chris.
Feng learns about his intentions in taking the job and helping the children in his village. Chris tells Feng that Owen is behind the kidnapping.
After Owen scares Professor Cheng into cooperating, he sends his men to find her bag which contains the codes. Cheng had left her phone in her bag and Owen is tracking the same.
The bag was with Mei from the beginning and Mei was with Chris and Feng. Owen's men reach Chris's village for the bag. Chris gives it up to protect the village.
Mei tells Chris and Feng that the refinery will deliver millions of barrels of petroleum products to the coast via a network of underground pipelines. This will be the biggest oil heist in history.Chris and Feng return to the refinery, defeat Owen's men and foil his plans. Chris and Feng team up to rescue Cheng and her son from the refinery control room. Owen escapes the refinery with a few trucks full of gasoline.
Chris and Feng chase with down with a jet engine truck, which was originally used by Chris to whip up the sandstorm in the desert.
Owen is killed in an ensuing car chase. Afterwards Feng and his team arrest the perpetrator behind the oil heist. Van Horne fixes the well and is offered and accepts a new mission with Feng.

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Happiness for Beginners

2023

Comedy/ Drama/ Romance

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Duration: 103 min

IMDB Rating: 6.1

Language: en

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