Film Shorts // June 30-July 6, 2021
OPENING
The Boss Baby: Family Business (PG) The sequel to the 2017 animated film features adult versions of the brothers (voiced by Alec Baldwin and James Marsden) being temporarily turned back into babies by a magic potion. Additional voices by Eva Longoria, Amy Sedaris, Ariana Greenblatt, Jimmy Kimmel, Lisa Kudrow, and Jeff Goldblum. (Opens Friday)
Felix and the Hidden Treasure (PG) This French animated film is about a 12-year-old boy (voiced by Elias Harger) who searches for his missing father. Additional voices by Angela Galuppo, Holly Gauthier-Frankel, Eleanor Noble, Elizabeth Neale, Terrence Scammell, and Wyatt Bowen. (Opens Friday in Dallas)
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A celebration of togetherness, and a city and a community’s undying spirit, the much-anticipated film was slated to be the perfect moviegoing experience in 2020.
But then the pandemic hit. Cinemas shuttered and New York became one of the world’s worst-affected cities. Black and Latino people were amongst the groups most impacted by the virus. “There are clear inequalities, clear disparities in how this disease is affecting the people of our city,” New York City’s mayor Bill de Balsio said last year.
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