Taglines: It’s a hard knock life.
In Harlem, 10-year-old Annie Bennett lives in foster care with several other girls in the care of the cruel Colleen Hannigan. She spends each Friday waiting outside the restaurant where she believes her parents will return to collect her.
She is rescued from being run down by a truck by William Stacks, a cell phone mogul running for mayor. Stacks is a germaphobe who doesn’t connect to commoners well, and is losing badly. The rescue goes viral on the internet and Stack’s numbers spike. Stacks’ campaign manager Guy Danlily suggests that he invite Annie to live with him as means to further boost his poll numbers. Stacks reluctantly agrees, but over time, develops true affection for Annie and his assistant Grace Farrell, and plans to adopt Annie.
After a disastrous public appearance, Guy Danlily (with the help of Miss Hannigan) arranges to have Annie claimed by impostors pretending to be her parents. But as they enact their plan, Guy betrays Miss Hannigan, who starts having second thoughts. Around the same time, Annie soon learns that the impostors are not her parents, and she is being kidnapped. Hannigan confesses Guy’s scheme to Stacks, who then fires Guy.
Annie is an American musical comedy-drama film directed by Will Gluck and produced by Village Roadshow Pictures and Will Smith’s Overbrook Entertainment for Sony Pictures’ Columbia Pictures. A contemporary adaptation of the 1977 Broadway musical of the same name, the film stars Quvenzhané Wallis, Jamie Foxx, Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale, and Cameron Diaz.
The third film adaptation of the 1924 comic strip Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray, following Columbia’s 1982 theatrical film and Disney’s 1999 television film, Annie began production in August 2013 and opened on December 19, 2014 to generally negative reviews, but was a box-office success, grossing over $133 million.
Annie
Directed by: Director: Will Gluck
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Quvenzhané Wallis, Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale, Cameron Diaz, Eden Duncan-Smith, Amanda Troya, Zoe Margaret Colletti, Tracie Thoms
Screenplay by: Will Gluck, Aline Brosh McKenna
Production Design by: Marcia Hinds
Cinematography by: Michael Grady
Film Editing by: Tia Nolan
Costume Design by: Renee Ehrlich Kalfus
Set Decoration by: David Schlesinger
Art Direction by: Patricia Woodbridge
Music by: Greg Kurstin
MPAA Rating: PG for some mild language and rude humor.
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Release Date: December 19, 2014
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