A new comedy from Academy Award-nominated director Jason Reitman [“Up in the Air”] and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody [“Juno”]. Marlo [Academy Award winner Charlize Theron], a mother of three including a newborn, is gifted a night nanny by her brother [Mark Duplass]. Hesitant to the extravagance at first, Marlo comes to form a unique bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging young nanny named Tully [Mackenzie Davis]. (FOCUS FEATURES)
Charlize Theron won an Academy Award for her performance in “Monster”. Jason Reitman previously collaborated with Oscar winning screenwriter Diablo Cody on “Juno” and “Young Adult”, which also starred Theron. Cody’s other writing credits include “Jennifer’s Body” with Megan Fox and “Ricki and the Flash” starring Meryl Streep. Reitman has another film set for release this year, the drama “The Front Runner” with Hugh Jackman and Vera Farmiga.
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Lights Camera Jackson (a.k.a. Jackson Murphy) began his career as a film critic in 2006 at the age of 7. To date, Jackson has written nearly 1,000 reviews of new releases and, in total, has seen more than 1,500 films. In 2010, Jackson became the youngest person to win a NY Emmy Award, for his on-air movie reviews on Time Warner TV station, Capital News 9. And in 2011, Jackson was inducted into the Broadcast Film Critics Association as their youngest member. The BFCA’s annual Critics Choice Awards is one of the industry’s most recognized and prestigious awards shows. Jackson is also a member of SAG-AFTRA and votes annually for the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Currently, Jackson can be heard every Friday morning on WGNA-FM and his reviews are also posted on his website, YouTube channel and Cultjer.com. He is also a contributor to AnimationScoop.com, run by animation historian Jerry Beck. And Jackson hosts the weekly internet pop culture news show “LCJ LIVE”, along with “The LCJ Q&A Podcast”, on which he interviews celebrities and filmmakers.