ANNIE
Date: 2-Jan-15
Director: Will Gluck
Genre: Comedy, musical
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Quvenzhané Wallis, Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, David Zayas and Cameron Diaz
Featuring the music of Jay-Z
A
Broadway classic that has delighted audiences for generations comes to
the big screen with a new, contemporary vision in Columbia Pictures’
comedy, Annie. Academy Award® nominee Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
stars as Annie, a young, happy foster kid who’s also tough enough to
make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Originally left by her
parents as a baby with the promise that they’d be back for her someday,
it’s been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss
Hannigan (Cameron Diaz). But everything’s about to change when the
hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks (Jamie
Foxx) – advised by his brilliant VP, Grace (Rose Byrne) and his shrewd
and scheming campaign advisor, Guy (Bobby Cannavale) – makes a thinly
veiled campaign move and takes her in. Stacks believes he’s her guardian
angel, but Annie’s self-assured nature and bright, sun-will-come-out-tomorrow outlook on life just might mean it’s the other way around.
