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Columbia Pictures
Olive Bridge Entertainment
Overbrook Entertainment
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It's a hard knock life.
Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan. But everything's about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks—advised by his brilliant VP and his shrewd and scheming campaign advisor—makes a thinly-veiled campaign move and takes her in. Stacks believes he's her guardian angel, but Annie's self-assured nature and bright, sun-will-come-out-tomorrow outlook on life just might mean it's the other way around.
r96sk
Nov 30, 2020 · via TMDB
Not for the lack of effort, but <em>'Annie'</em> isn't good. I've admittedly never seen the original musical, not that I think that's necessary anyway. I like the cast, while the songs are alright - if cringey. Everything else is either slow, predictable or straight up boring. It might've, perhaps, worked better as a flat out drama - though then they'd get hate for changing things, I guess. As noted, the onscreen talent stopped this from falling far down my ratings. Jamie Foxx and Rose Byrne are two actors I enjoy, I found them satisfactory in this - could've been better, could've been worse. Quvenzhané Wallis is more than decent in the lead, while David Zayas is solid. Cameron Diaz is, however, truly awful - and that's coming from someone who likes Diaz; she's very good in films like <em>'Shrek'</em>, <em>'Knight and Day'</em> and <em>'Bad Teacher'</em> but this is certainly the worst I've seen from her - it's a shame that she went out with this as well as the dreadful and overall inferior <em>'Sex Tape'</em>. Despite me rating (most of) the cast themselves, I don't think the casting itself is anything praisable. Foxx, Byrne and Diaz are not three actors I'd immediately think of if I was making a musical - a few of their songs are a tad ropey. Poor, all in all.
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Quvenzhané Wallis
Annie Bennett
Jamie Foxx
William "Will" Stacks
Rose Byrne
Grace Farrell
Cameron Diaz
Miss Colleen Hannigan
Bobby Cannavale
Guy Danlily
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Nash
David Zayas
Lou
Amanda Troya
Pepper
Zoe Colletti
Tessie
Nicolette Pierini
Mia
Eden Duncan-Smith
Isabella
Dorian Missick
Annie's "Dad"
Tracie Thoms
Annie's "Mom"
Mike Birbiglia
Social Services Inspector
Stephanie Kurtzuba
Ms. Kovacevic
Peter Van Wagner
Harold Gray
Michael J. Fox
Self
Raushanah Simmons
YaYa L'Occitane
DonnaMarie Recco
Woman on Street
Mila Kunis
Andrea Alvin
Ashton Kutcher
Simon Goodspeed
Rihanna
Moon Goddess
Patricia Clarkson
Focus Group Woman
Sia
Animal Care & Control Volunteer
Bobby Moynihan
Guy In Bar
Pat Kiernan
NY1 Reporter
Andrew Fleming
Cleve Sweetzer
Ray Iannicelli
Waiter at Domani
Victor Cruz
Teacher
Taylor Richardson
Red Haired "Annie"
Derrick Baskin
Auditioning 'Dad'
Pernell Walker
Auditioning 'Mom'
J. Kaitlin Becker
Grace's Assistant
Ruby Rose Turner
Orphan #8 (uncredited)
Maesi Caes
Orphan #3 (uncredited)
Josh Elliott Pickel
(uncredited)
Lily Peterson
Tessie Photo Double
Patricia Pinto
Mom
Alan D. Purwin
Stacks' Pilot
Nicholas Pinto
Friend of foster girls
Amyrh Harris
Classroom Kid
Gabriella Baldacchino
Classmate (uncredited)
Tate McRae
Orphan #17 (uncredited)
Booch O'Connell
Movie Premiere Guest (uncredited)
Kevin Cannon
Photobomber
Deshane Granger
Waiter
Autumn Miller
Orphan #15 (uncredited)
Kaylee Quinn
Orphan #4 (uncredited)
Emma Wetzel
Tap Dancing Classmate
Dylan Goss
Aerial Director of Photography
Maceo Bishop
Steadicam Operator
Renee Ehrlich Kalfus
Costume Design
Al Cerullo
Pilot
Victor Paguia
Stunt Coordinator
Shawnna Thibodeau
Stunt Double
Jill Brown
Stunt Driver
Caroline Vexler
Stunts
Haaron Hines
Stunts
Will Gluck
Director
Tia Nolan
Editor
Tyson Bidner
Location Manager
Caleeb Pinkett
Producer
Jada Pinkett Smith
Producer
James Lassiter
Producer
JAŸ-Z
Producer
Will Smith
Producer
Matt Sullivan
Music Supervisor
Charles Strouse
Original Music Composer
Greg Kurstin
Original Music Composer
Charles Strouse
Songs
Sia
Songs
Will Gluck
Songs
Harold Gray
Comic Book
Martin Charnin
Lyricist
Aline Brosh McKenna
Screenplay
Will Gluck
Screenplay
Charles Strouse
Theatre Play
Martin Charnin
Theatre Play
Thomas Meehan
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Dec 19, 2014
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