Baby ‘Grand’
The bellhop handles your luggage. The chambermaid sees exactly how you sleep. Your ears perk at the faintest sound of intimate conversations trailing down labyrinthine hallways.
Hotels are curious places, and there will be none more odd this year than the expansively and richly populated Victorian version that serves as the stage for auteur director Wes Anderson’s new 1920s-set comedy of errors, The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Ralph Fiennes stars as an infamous concierge and aging lothario who takes on a young lobby boy as his personal assistant. Together this dysfunctional pair gets caught up in a vicious tug of war over an extravagant family inheritance and the mystery of a stolen Renaissance painting.
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A dozen actors from Anderson’s quiver of quirky performers pop up in supporting roles, including Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman and Adrien Brody. This film, inspired by the screwball adventure films of Billy Wilder and Ernst Lubitsch, is the first from Anderson to boast a screenplay written solely by the Houston native.
The Grand Budapest Hotel arrives March 7.
MARCH 7
Eva Green and Lena Headey in 300: Rise of an Empire
MARCH 14
Elizabeth Banks and Gillian Jacobs in Walk of Shame; Tina Fey and Ricky Gervais in Muppets Most Wanted
MARCH 21
Shailene Woodley and Kate Winslet in Divergent
MARCH 28
Russell Crowe and Emma Watson in Noah
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