the Mind’s Chew Toy

Plot: Meggie (Bennett) is a young girl whose father has a secret ability - he can bring characters from books to life when he reads them aloud. But when a power-hungry villain from a rare children’s fable kidnaps Meggie’s father to bring others out of the boundaries of fiction, she and a disparate group of friends must save him and set things right. Based on the book by Cornelia Funke.

Plot: Caroline (Hudson), sick of the big city way of doing things, answers an ad for a hospice caretaker in a small town in Louisiana. Her patient, Ben (Hurt), had a stroke in the attic of the plantation he shares with his wife Violet (Rowlands). The longer Caroline stays, the more she uncovers about plantation’s history. The more she learns, the more certain she is that something strange is going on in that house…but what?