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Sundance Film Festival 2017: 17 Movies Everyone Is Already Talking About

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Jan 19, 2017 12:12 AM
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The Polka King

Jack Black stars as Jan Lewan, a real-life polka sensation who ended up in prison after convincing his fans to invest in a Ponzi scheme.

Comedy


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The Incredible Jessica James

Former The Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams stars as a struggling playwright who becomes friends with a divorced man (Chris O'Dowd) after she breaks up with her boyfriend.

Comedy


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The Big Sick

Zoe Kazan and Kumail Nanjiani play a couple facing issues around their cultural differences. Judd Apatow is a producer.

Comedy, Romance


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Wind River

An FBI agent (Elizabeth Olsen) enlists the help of a small town's game tracker (Jeremy Renner) to investigate a murder on a local Native American reservation.

Thriller


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Call Me By Your Name

A romance develops between a 17-year-old boy (Timothée Chalamet) and a 24-year-old man (Armie Hammer) while visiting his parents' Italian villa in the 1980s.


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The Kalief Browder Story

Jay Z produced this six-part Spike miniseries that tells the story of the young Bronx man who committed suicide after spending two years in solitary confinement when he was jailed, but never convicted, for allegedly stealing a backpack.

Documentary


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Marjorie Prime

Tim Robbins stars as a man who hires a service to create a hologram of his late father-in-law (Jon Hamm) during his younger years.

Comedy


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Crown Heights

The true story of a man (Atlanta's Lakeith Stanfield) who spent decades in prison after being wrongly convicted of murder. Kerry Washington's husband Nnamdi Asomugha plays his best friend who dedicated his life to proving his innocence.

Drama


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Mudbound

The all-star ensemble about two WWII soldiers who return home to work on a farm in the south includes Garrett Hedlund, Jason Mitchell, Jason Clarke and Carey Mulligan.

Drama


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The Little Hours

A servant (Dave Franco) escapes from his master in the middle ages to a convent of misbehaving nuns, including one played by Franco's real-life bride-to-be Alison Brie.

Comedy


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Come Swim

Kristen Stewart goes behind the camera to direct this short film about one man's day.

Drama


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Before I Fall

A young woman (Zoey Deutch) dies but ends up reliving her last day alive over and over again.

Mystery Drama


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Beatriz at Dinner

Salma Hayek stars as a holistic therapist who unexpectedly finds herself at a client's dinner party.

Comedy


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Wilson

Woody Harrelson is a middle-aged man who finds out he has a teenage daughter (Isabella Amara) after he reunites with his estranged wife (Laura Dern).

Comedy


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Lady Macbeth

Based on the 1865 novella Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, newcomer Florence Pugh stars as a young woman sold into marriage to an older man in the 19th century.

Drama


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The Discovery

Jason Segel, Rooney Mara, Jesse Plemons and Robert Redford star in director and co-writer Charlie McDowell's sci-fi drama about a world in which the afterlife is proven to be real.

Sci-Fi Romance


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The Yellow Birds

Based on the best selling novel of the same name, the movie stars Alden Ehrenreich as an Iraq War soldier who sees his friend die in battle. Back at home, he's faced with a military investigation and his friend's grieving mom (Jennifer Aniston).

Drama


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