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Women at the Box Office This Weekend- May 29

posted by Women & Hollywood
Saturday, May 30, 2009 at 6:09pm CDT

Opening This Week

Pressure Cooker- directed by Jennifer Grausman and Mark Becker (at the IFC in NY)
Here’s the description from the press materials: Three seniors at Philadelphia’s Frankford High School find an unlikely champion in the kitchen of Wilma Stephenson. A legend in the school system, Mrs. Stephenson’s hilariously blunt boot-camp method of teaching Culinary Arts is validated by years of scholarship success. Against the backdrop of the row homes of working-class Philadelphia, she has helped countless students reach the top culinary schools in the country. And under her fierce direction, the usual distractions of high school are swept aside as Erica, Dudley and Fatoumata prepare to achieve beyond what anyone else expects from them.

Next week we will have some wider releases including the return of Nia Vardalos to Greek culture in My Life in Ruins, Seraphine based on the life of French artist Séraphine de Senlis and the Sam Mendes film Away We Go which features a great performance from Maya Rudolph.

This weekend I think I’m going to settle for watching Janet McTeer as Clementine Churchill in Into the Storm on HBO Sunday night. Here’s an interview with McTeer.

Here are some other movies still on my list to be seen: Summer Hours and Every Little Step.

Films Currently in Theatres:
Easy Virtue
Julia
American Violet- screening info
Sunshine Cleaning
Pray the Devil Back to Hell- screening info

Women Directed Films
Sugar- directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck