Best Lesser-Known Movies from 2013
by napierslogs | created - 19 May 2014 | updated - 19 May 2014 | PublicMy film reviews site: [link]http://www.filmgatereviews.com[/link]
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1. Kill Your Darlings (2013)
R | 104 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs.
Director: John Krokidas | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Michael C. Hall, Ben Foster
Votes: 41,261 | Gross: $1.03M
2. Best Man Down (2012)
PG-13 | 89 min | Comedy, Drama
A newlywed couple cancels their honeymoon and returns to the snowy Midwest to make the funeral arrangements for their best man, who died unexpectedly after their ceremony.
Director: Ted Koland | Stars: Justin Long, Jess Weixler, Tyler Labine, Addison Timlin
Votes: 10,069 | Gross: $0.00M
3. It's a Disaster (2012)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama
Four couples meet for Sunday brunch, then discover they are stuck in a house together as the world may be about to end.
Director: Todd Berger | Stars: Rachel Boston, Laura Adkin, Kevin M. Brennan, David Cross
Votes: 11,619 | Gross: $0.04M
4. Prince Avalanche (2013)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Drama
Two highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind.
Director: David Gordon Green | Stars: Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch, Lance LeGault, Joyce Payne
Votes: 20,904 | Gross: $0.20M
5. Short Term 12 (2013)
R | 96 min | Drama
A 20-something supervising staff member of a residential treatment facility navigates the troubled waters of that world alongside her co-worker and longtime boyfriend.
Director: Destin Daniel Cretton | Stars: Brie Larson, Frantz Turner, John Gallagher Jr., Kaitlyn Dever
Votes: 91,845 | Gross: $1.01M
6. Rapture-Palooza (2013)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Two teens battle their way through a religious apocalypse on a mission to defeat the Antichrist.
Director: Paul Middleditch | Stars: Craig Robinson, Anna Kendrick, John Francis Daley, Rob Corddry
Votes: 12,457
7. The First Time (I) (2012)
PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A shy senior and a down-to-earth junior fall in love over one weekend.
Director: Jonathan Kasdan | Stars: Dylan O'Brien, Britt Robertson, Victoria Justice, James Frecheville
Votes: 73,649 | Gross: $0.02M
8. Family Weekend (2013)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama
When her family misses her jump roping competition, a 16-year-old girl and her siblings hold their parents hostage, hoping to correct their unsatisfying behavior.
Director: Benjamin Epps | Stars: Kristin Chenoweth, Matthew Modine, Olesya Rulin, Joey King
Votes: 7,153
9. Stuck in Love. (2012)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An acclaimed writer, his ex-wife, and their teenaged children come to terms with the complexities of love in all its forms over the course of one tumultuous year.
Director: Josh Boone | Stars: Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Connelly, Lily Collins, Nat Wolff
Votes: 92,012 | Gross: $0.08M
10. The Happy House (2013)
Not Rated | 81 min | Comedy, Horror
Their relationship on the rocks, a young Brooklyn couple heads to a remote B&B to work things out. But from the moment they arrive at The Happy House it's one disaster after another, and ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Young | Stars: Khan Baykal, Aya Cash, Marceline Hugot, Kathleen McNenny
Votes: 494 | Gross: $0.00M
11. Girl Most Likely (2012)
PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy
A failed New York playwright awkwardly navigates the transition from Next Big Thing to Last Year's News.
Directors: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini | Stars: Kristen Wiig, Annette Bening, Matt Dillon, Darren Criss
Votes: 16,034 | Gross: $1.38M
12. The Lifeguard (2013)
R | 98 min | Drama, Romance
A former valedictorian quits her reporter job in New York and returns to the place she last felt happy: her childhood home in Connecticut. She gets work as a lifeguard and starts a dangerous relationship with a troubled teenager.
Director: Liz W. Garcia | Stars: Kristen Bell, Mamie Gummer, Martin Starr, Joshua Harto
Votes: 15,217
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