Audio Description Project
Audio Description Project
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The following is a list of movies AUDIO DESCRIBED IN ENGLISH now playing in USA local cinemas. It is created weekly from a Newsletter distributed by Vicki Vogt and the Bay State Council of the Blind. Technically, this is a list of described movies playing in the Boston, MA, area; however, most of them should be playing in your area also. Additions to this list are posted on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. To learn more about AD in cinema, see our Audio Description in Movie Theaters page, or specifically Headsets for AD in Movie Theaters. Listen also to this podcast: Enjoying the Movies After Vision Loss with Audio Description. And you will find movie reviews which include reviews of the quality of the audio description at MacTheMovieGuy.com. Live in the UK? Visit the YourLocalCinema website. LAST TITLE UPDATE: Oct 17, 2024; count = 18 titles. Page Down or click below for the detailed listings with plot.
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CURRENT TITLES AVAILABLE
Oct 17 Oct 17 Oct 17 Oct 17 Oct 17TOTAL: 18 titles.
1 Hour, 57 Min.
Rated: R for language and brief drug material.
Genre: Drama
Description: Utilizing his paintings to find freedom from his past, a Black artist on the path to success is derailed by an unexpected visit from his estranged father, a recovering addict desperate to reconcile. Together, they struggle and learn that forgetting might be a greater challenge than forgiving.
1 Hour, 58 Min.
Rated: R Rated: R for some sexual content/partial nudity and violent content.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Description: The leaders of seven wealthy democracies get lost in the woods while drafting a statement on a global crisis, facing danger as they attempt to find their way out.
2 Hours, 7 Min.
Rated: R for strong bloody violent content, grisly images, language throughout and drug use.
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Description: About to embark on a new world tour, global pop sensation Skye Riley (Naomi Scott) begins experiencing increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events. Overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and the pressures of fame, Skye is forced to face her dark past to regain control of her life before it spirals out of control.Trivia: The scar on Skye's knee is in shape of a smile.
1 Hour, 15 Min.
Rated: PG
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Description: Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king of Halloween Town, is bored with doing the same thing every year for Halloween. One day he stumbles into Christmas Town, and is so taken with the idea of Christmas that he tries to get the resident bats, ghouls, and goblins of Halloween Town to help him put on Christmas instead of Halloween -- but alas, they can't get it quite right.
1 Hour, 47 Min.
Rated: R for language, sexuality, nudity.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Description: Almut (Florence Pugh) and Tobias (Andrew Garfield) are brought together in a surprise encounter that changes their lives. Through snapshots of their life together -- falling for each other, building a home, becoming a family -- a difficult truth is revealed that rocks its foundation. As they embark on a path challenged by the limits of time, they learn to cherish each moment of the unconventional route their love story has taken, in filmmaker John Crowley's decade-spanning, deeply moving romance.
1 Hour, 44 Min.
Rated: PG-13 for violent content, macabre and bloody images, strong language, some suggestive material and brief drug use.
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Description: After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid, discovers the mysterious model of the town in the attic and the portal to the Afterlife is accidentally opened. With trouble brewing in both realms, it's only a matter of time until someone says Beetlejuice's name three times and the mischievous demon returns to unleash his very own brand of mayhem.
1 Hour, 23 Min.
Rated: PG
Genre: Documentary
Description: Blink of an Eye tells the story of the Pelletier family, a happy, adventurous family of six, who decide to go on a world tour after learning three of their four children will soon lose their vision to retinitis pigmentosa, a rare, incurable disorder that leads to permanent blindness. The family sets out on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to experience all of the beauty the world has to offer while they can still see it. The film follows the Pelletiers on their journey as they prepare for the inevitability of the future.
2 Hours, 7 min.
Rated: R for strong bloody violence and language throughout, gore and sexual references.
Genre: Action, Comedy, SciFi
Description: A listless Wade Wilson toils away in civilian life with his days as the morally flexible mercenary, Deadpool, behind him. But when his home world faces an existential threat, Wade must reluctantly suit-up again with an even more reluctant Wolverine.
2 Hours, 18 Min.
Rated: R for some strong violence, language throughout, some sexuality, and brief full nudity.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Musical, Thriller
Description: Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) is institutionalized at Arkham, awaiting trial for his crimes as Joker. While struggling with his dual identity, Arthur not only stumbles upon true love, but also finds the music that's always been inside him. Also starring Lady GaGa.Trivia: The film's working title is "Folie a Deux", which means "Madness of Two" in French. This initially led to speculation about Harley Quinn's appearance in the film, which was shortly thereafter confirmed. The name Folie a Deux comes from the 19th century French psychiatrist Charles Lasègue and Jules Falret, also known as Lasègue-Falret syndrome, and it depicts two or more people that share the same madness or delirium.
2 Hours, 18 Min.
Rated: R for sexual content, nudity, drug use, language and some violence.
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Description: The city of New Rome is the main conflict between Cesar Catilina, a brilliant artist in favor of a utopian future, and the greedy mayor Franklyn Cicero. Between them is Julia Cicero, her loyalty divided between her father and her beloved.
1 Hour, 33 Min.
Rated: PG
Genre: Animation, Biography, Comedy, Family, Musical
Description: PIECE BY PIECE is an unparalleled motion picture experience that captures the magic and brilliance of Pharrell Williams' creative genius, one LEGO© brick at a time. Uninterested in making a traditional film about his life, Pharrell set out to tell his story in a way that would set audience's imaginations free. Developed from his singular vision, PIECE BY PIECE defies genres and expectations to transport audiences into a LEGO world where anything is possible.
1 Hour, 49 Min.
Rated: R for language throughout, sexual references, some drug use and brief graphic nudity.
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
DescriptionAt 11:30pm on October 11, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television - and culture - forever. Saturday Night is based on the true story of what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live. Full of humor, chaos, and the magic of a revolution that almost wasn't, we count down the minutes in real time until we hear those famous words.
1 Hour, 50 Min.
Rated: R for some strong violence, language, some sexual content and brief drug use.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Description: A family gets invited to spend a whole weekend in a lonely home in the countryside, but as the weekend progresses, they'll soon realize that the family who invited them has a dark side laying inside them.
2 Hours
Rated: R for sexual content, some graphic nudity, language, sexual assault, and drug use.
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Description: 1970s New York: determined to emerge from his powerful father's shadow and make a name for himself in Manhattan real estate, aspiring mogul Donald J. Trump is in the earliest days of his career when he encounters the man who will become one of the most important figures in his life: political fixer Roy Cohn. Seeing promise in young Donald, the influential attorney--who secured espionage convictions against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and investigated suspected Communists alongside Senator Joseph McCarthy--teaches his new acolyte how to amass wealth and power through deception, intimidation, and media manipulation. The rest is history.
2 Hours, 20 Min.
Rated: R for strong bloody violent content, gore, graphic nudity and language.
Genre: Drama, Horror
Description: A fading celebrity decides to use a black-market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.
1 Hour, 42 Min.
Rated: PG
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Description: After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh environment, Roz bonds with the island's animals and cares for an orphaned baby goose. Based on the middle grade novel of the same name by Peter Brown. There are 3 books in Roz's storyline.
1 Hour, 44 Min.
Rated: PG for sci-fi violence and animated action throughout, and language.
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Description: The untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron, better known as sworn enemies, but once were friends bonded like brothers who changed the fate of Cybertron forever.
1 Hour, 37 Min.
Rated: PG for some strong violence, thematic material and language.
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Family, War.
Description: In R. J. Palacio's bestselling collection of stories Auggie and Me, which expands on characters in Wonder, readers were introduced to Julian's grandmother, Grandmère. Here, Palacio makes her graphic novel debut with Grandmère's heartrending story: how she, a young Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II; how the boy she and her classmates once shunned became her savior and best friend.
