What Happens in Vegas and Quantum of Solace on Star Movies

NEW YEAR’S EVE DOUBLE PREMIERE – STAR MOVIES kicks off the year-end party of a double premiere, featuring What Happens in Vegas and Quantum of Solace Thu 31 Dec @ 9:00pm

WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS – Starring Ashton Kutcher, Cameron Diaz and Lake Bell – Directed by Tom Vaughan

Joy (Diaz, The Holiday) is a levelheaded, career-focused woman. When her fiancé unexpectedly dumps her, the New Yorker heads to Vegas with her friend, Tipper (Bell, Over Her Dead Body), to forget her troubles and discover her fun, spontaneous side. After a wild night, she wakes up married to out-of-work carpenter, Jack (Kutcher, The Guardian). Although the two want a quick divorce, things get complicated when Jack wins $3 million on a slot machine using Joy’s money. When a ruling judge refuses to settle the dispute and insists the pair spend six months living together, they each try to force the other to file for divorce and forfeit the prize.

“An exceedingly bright comedy… [with] brisk pacing, smart lines, sound construction and superb comic acting…” – Stephen Hunter, Washington Post

Thu, 31 Dec @ 11:00pm – QUANTUM OF SOLACE

Starring Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko and Judi Dench

Directed by Marc Forster

Daniel Craig (Defiance) returns in this dark sequel as agent James Bond. When Bond discovers a massive, secret organization called Quantum, he believes it might have been a part of the scheme that killed his pervious love, Vesper. Following the clues to Haiti, he meets Camille (Kurylenko, Max Payne), a mysterious women with unclear motives. Camille leads Bond to Dominic Greene (Mathieu Almalric), a cold-blooded businessman working within Quantum in order to gain control of a valuable piece of land in Latin America and eventually overthrow the government. When Bond gets caught in the center of the sinister scheme, he is forced to abandon M’s (Dench, Notes on a Scandal) orders and step out on his own.

“Thanks to a deft blend of exotic escapism and bare-bones modernism…it’s the perfect Bond film.” – James Jung, Premiere.

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