Focus Features | 2012 Movie Releases

Anna Karenina (2012)

February 11, 2019February 11, 2019

In 1874 Russian Empire, Prince Stephan “Stiva” Oblonsky’s wife, Princess Darya “Dolly,” banishes her husband from their home due to his infidelity. Stiva’s sister, Anna Karenina, a well-off and well-liked socialite living in St. Petersburg with her older husband, Count Alexei Karenin, and their son, Sergei “Seryozha” Alexeyich Karenin, travels to Moscow to persuade Dolly to forgive Stiva. Stiva meets his old friend Konstantin Levin, a wealthy land owner and aristocrat who is looked down upon by Moscow’s elite for preferring country life to city life.

Drama and Romance Movies / Focus Features

Being Flynn (2012)

February 10, 2019February 10, 2019

Nick Flynn, in his 20s, hasn’t found his place in the world yet, but hopes to be a writer. Around the time he takes a job at a homeless shelter in Boston, his father, Jonathan, who considers himself a great writer and who hasn’t see Nick in years, abruptly makes fleeting contact.

Drama and Romance Movies / Focus Features / Romantic Comedies

For a Good Time, Call… (2012)

February 9, 2019February 9, 2019

Staid Lauren Powell, originally a Long Island princess and now working as a book editor for a small, struggling publishing house, faces a housing crisis in expensive New York City after her live-in boyfriend, Charlie, moving temporarily to Rome, breaks up with her thinking that she is boring. She is unable to afford the apartment on her own. Sexually provocative Katie Steele is also facing a housing crisis when what was her now deceased grandmother’s rent controlled apartment, where she lives alone, goes market rate, she too unable to afford the apartment on her own now.

Drama and Romance Movies / Focus Features / Period Films / Real Life Stories

Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)

February 8, 2019February 8, 2019

Margaret Suckley (Laura Linney) – more commonly known as Daisy – recollects her relationship with her more famous distant cousin, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Her recollections focus primarily on the year they were reacquainted as adults, 1939. With Daisy living in Hyde Park, New York, that reacquaintance was when Roosevelt more often visited Hyde Park to stay at his mother’s house there, Mrs. Roosevelt who was looking for people to keep her son company to take his mind off politics.

Fantastic Movies / Focus Features / Romantic Comedies

Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

February 6, 2019February 6, 2019

New Penzance Island, 1965. Twelve year old Sam Shakusky has left a note for Randy Ward, Master of Khaki Scout Troop 55, that he has voluntarily left Camp Ivanhoe at Fort Lebanon, where the troop is stationed, and is resigning from the scouts. It isn’t until this incident that Master Ward finds out that Sam is an orphan in the foster care system, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Billingsley, who operate a foster care factory of sorts, his current foster parents.

Animation Movies / Focus Features

ParaNorman (2012)

February 6, 2019February 6, 2019

In the town of Blithe Hollow, Norman Babcock is a boy who can speak to the dead, but no one besides his eccentric new friend, Neil, believes his ability is real. One day, Norman’s estranged eccentric uncle tells him of an important annual ritual he must take up to protect the town from a curse cast by a witch it condemned centuries ago.

Focus Features / Period Films / Romantic Comedies / Science Fiction Movies

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)

February 5, 2019February 5, 2019

With all possible human intervention exhausted, the Earth will imminently be obliterated by a meteorite. As such, most people are putting known laws, rules and conventions aside as they plan for what they really want for the end of their life. Among those making such a decision is Linda Petersen, who leaves her insurance salesman husband Dodge Petersen without a word three weeks before doomsday.