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Moms, Dads, and Babies Day at the movies

Moms, Dads and Babies - this month's Screen Play movie is the rollicking comedy "Along Came Polly" starring Ben Stiller and Jennifer Aniston at selected Ster-Kinekor Theatres nationwide on Wednesday 3rd March at 09h30 am. Admission is only allowed with a child.

For those not familiar with the concept Screenplay is a monthly movie initiative from Ster-Kinekor Theatres that allows parents and young babies to get back to the movies. Every movie is a premiere of a hot not-yet-released movie and admission is only allowed with a child.

The cinemas are baby friendly - low lighting, softer sound and pram facilities - where parents can enjoy a movie and feed the baby and let them scream without fear of complaint. Parents pay normal price with their children under 2 getting in free.

Along Came Polly is directed by comic screenwriter John Hamburg (Meet The Parents, Zoolander). Reuben Feffer (BEN STILLER) has made a fine life—and a good career—out of playing it safe. Polly Prince (JENNIFER ANISTON) plays her life like a game of chance, taking joy from the serendipity that a rolling stone existence brings her. So when a chance meeting puts Reuben and Polly at the same party, the recently (and extremely) jilted Reuben decides that for once, chance may just be on his side. Dating Polly might be the answer to getting his life back on track

To reserve your tickets for Screen Play call the Ster-Kinekor contact centre – 082 167 89 or go to www.sterkinekor.com for more information. Along Came Polly is showing at 09h30 am at Ster-Kinekor Theatres that hosts Screen Play.

Along Came Polly synopsis

Reuben Feffer (BEN STILLER) has made a fine life—and a good career—out of playing it safe. The star risk assessor for a leading insurance firm, Reuben is an expert on minimizing danger—nothing ventured, nothing lost.

Polly Prince (JENNIFER ANISTON) plays her life like a game of chance, taking joy from the serendipity that a rolling stone existence brings her. There's always another opportunity—a new job, yet another apartment in another city—should this one not work out. No biggie...next.

So when a chance meeting puts Reuben and Polly at the same party, the recently (and extremely) jilted Reuben decides that for once, chance may just be on his side. Dating Polly might be the answer to getting his life back on track—she's attractive, fresh, funny—and after all, the two knew each other in seventh grade, when they were both delegates in the Model U.N. together. Just how much can a person change?

Well, Polly probably didn't have tattoos in junior high. Or have a penchant for spicy food, steamy salsa dancing or collecting tokens from boyfriends past...like the near-blind ferret she picked up in Italy. And Reuben—his propensity to plan everything in his life may not have been as all-encompassing in middle school, nor his compulsion with living in the middle of the road as pronounced.

But even in the middle of the road, Reuben finds that there are bound to be bumps—like indigestible food, scary children's stories, sight-impaired house pets. Life is risky, and so is love...and with Polly along for the ride, could one expect (or enjoy) anything less?

Universal Pictures presents the latest project from acclaimed comic screenwriter JOHN HAMBURG (Meet the Parents, Zoolander and Safe Men)—Along Came Polly—with Hamburg assuming the roles of both screenwriter and director for the first time since his Sundance Film Festival debut and cult hit, Safe Men. Starring along with Stiller and Aniston are an all-star cast of supporting players, including PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN as Reuben's lifelong best friend, ex-teen movie star Sandy Lyle; DEBRA MESSING as Reuben's new ex-bride (sort of), Lisa Kramer; HANK AZARIA as the other (French)man, scuba instructor Claude; BRYAN BROWN as the adventurous Australian billionaire/entrepreneur Leland Van Lew; and ALEC BALDWIN as Stan Indursky, Reuben's wheeler-dealer boss.



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