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Focus Features’ “Moonrise Kingdom” will open in the Duke City on Friday.
From left, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Edward Norton and Bruce Willis star in “Moonrise Kingdom.”
The film will open at Century Rio 24 and Century 14 Downtown.
“Moonrise Kingdom” is directed by two-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Wes Anderson. He also directed “The Royal Tenenbaums,” “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” and “Rushmore.”
The film is set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965 and tells the story of two 12-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness.
As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore — and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in every which way.
Bruce Willis plays the local sheriff, Captain Sharp. Edward Norton is a Khaki Scout troop leader, Scout Master Ward. Bill Murray and Frances McDormand portray the young girl’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bishop. The cast also includes Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman, and Bob Balaban; and introduces Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward as Sam and Suzy, the boy and girl.
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