Weekend Watch — 2/24/23
A love letter to female friendships + the imagined life of Emily Brontë + a true story about a bear... who ate cocaine... because man, were the ‘80s wild.
Hey there, TueNighters! As you know, the TueNight team publishes an ah-mazing list of movie releases, series drops, and tv shows in our weekly TueDo List newsletter.
Here in the Weekend Watch, we’re able to take a deeper dive into our recommendations and chat a little more about what we’re watching — so let’s go!
Here are our picks:
My Happy Ending (Theaters) — Andie MacDowell plays a famous actress who goes incognito to seek treatment for a medical issue. While staying at the hospital, she meets three unique and remarkable women — an aging rocker, a young mother, and a forever single retired schoolteacher (played by Miriam Margolyes, Rakhee Thakrar, and Sally Phillips). Together, they help her face adversity with humor and camaraderie while coaching her for the most challenging role she's ever played…herself.
Emily (Theaters, Roku) — imagines Emily Brontë’s own Gothic story that inspired her seminal novel, “Wuthering Heights.” Haunted by the death of her mother, Emily (Emma Mackey) struggles within the confines of her family life and yearns for artistic and personal freedom, and so begins a journey to channel her creative potential into one of the greatest novels of all time.
Outer Banks | Season 3 (Netflix) — the addictive Southern teen mystery drama returns as the leader of the group enlists his three best friends to hunt for a legendary treasure linked to his father's disappearance.
Cocaine Bear (Theaters) — inspired by the 1985 true story of a drug runner's plane crash, missing cocaine, and the black bear that ate it, this wild dark comedy finds an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converging in a Georgia forest where a 500- pound apex predator has ingested a staggering amount of cocaine and gone on a coke-fueled rampage for more blow … and blood… because man, were the ‘80s wild.
I’m VERY excited for Party Down. I loved the original and am optimistic about the re-boot. Not sure anyone can be as good as Lizzie Caplan though.