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Opening on Friday, Aug. 31, are Kin, The
Little Stranger and Juliet, Naked. Kin is
a sci-fi/action crime thriller about two
adopted brothers on the run. Shortly after
being released from jail, Elijah (Jack
Reynor), who is about 25, is forced to
flee with his teen brother Jimmy (Miles
Truitt). They are being pursued by crime
lord Taylor Bolek (James Franco, 40)
and an army of other-wordly soldiers.
The brothers’ only protection is a mys-
terious ancient weapon. The supporting
cast includes Dennis Quaid as the broth-
ers’ father and Zoe Kravitz, 29, as Milly,
Jimmy’s girlfriend.
The Little Stranger is based on an
acclaimed 2009 Gothic novel that
reviewers said went beyond “spooky
stuff” and touched on serious issues,
like class (especially the decline of the
“landed gentry” in post-war England).
As the movie begins, it’s 1947 and Dr.
Faraday (Domhnall Glesson, Ex Machina),
the son of a housemaid, is called to treat
a maid at Hundreds Hall, an 18th-century
country manor that is falling apart. He
becomes acquainted with the manor’s
almost-broke owner, Angela Ayres
(Charlotte Rampling) and her two adult
children, Caroline and Roddy. Faraday
begins treating Roddy (Will Poulter), a
disfigured WWII pilot, for his wounds
and for post-traumatic stress. He forms
a sometimes-romantic relationship with
Caroline (Ruth Wilson). Things start to
turn spooky when a child visiting the
house is mauled by a previously placid
dog. A series of increasingly traumatic
events occur, which may or may not have
a supernatural origin.
The director is Irish Jew Lenny
Abrahamson, 51, who helmed a number
of acclaimed indie films before receiv-
ing a best director Oscar nomination
for Room (2015), also a best picture
nominee. Kin star Jack Reynor, whose
mother is Irish, had his breakthrough
role in Abramson’s 2012 film, What
Richard Saw. Back in 2014, Abrahamson
accurately said that he is “the third
most famous Irish Jew” (behind the late
Chaim Herzog, an Israeli general who
became president of Israel, and the late
Robert Briscoe, lord mayor of Dublin).
Juliet, Naked is a comedy-drama
based on a novel of the same name by
big-selling British author Nick Hornby
(About a Boy, High Fidelity). It focuses on
the story of Annie (Rose Byrne) and her
unlikely romance with singer-songwriter
Tucker Crowe (Ethan Hawke). The com-
plication is that Annie’s boyfriend (Chris
O’Dowd) is a huge Crowe fan. The
director is former Lemonheads bass-
ist, Jesse Peretz, 50, the son of Marty

James Franco

Zoe Kravitz

Jesse Peretz

Peretz, 79, the former publisher of the
New Republic. The screenwriters include
Jesse’s sister, Evgenia Peretz, 48, and
Tamara Jenkins, 56 (Slums of Beverly
Hills). •