(opening dates are tentative) Madea’s Witness Protection, PG-13 The gentle chief financial officer of a Wall Street investment bank (Eugene Levy) with growing family problems who escapes into the witness protection program - hiding out, natch, with Madea (writer-director Tyler Perry) - when it turns out his firm has been operating a mob-backed Ponzi scheme and that he’s been set up as the fall guy. With Denise Richards, Doris Roberts, Danielle Campbell, Romeo Miller, Tom Arnold, John Amos, Marla Gibbs.
June 29
Magic Mike, R In a movie based on his own life story, Channing Tatum plays a veteran male stripper who mentors an upstart young dancer (Alex Pettyfer) and schools him in the fine arts of partying, picking up women and making easy money.
With Matthew McConaughey, Cody Horn, Olivia Munn, Gabriel Iglesias; directed by Steven Soderbergh.
June 22
People Like Us, PG-13 Chris Pine plays a fast-talking, twentysomething salesman who, while unwillingly putting his late father’s estate in order and trying to reconnect with his estranged family, discovers that he has sibling he never knew about. With Elizabeth Banks, Olivia Wilde, Michael Hall D’Addario, Philip Baker Hall, Michelle Pfeiffer;
directed by Alex Kurtzman.
June 29
Ted, R Director Seth MacFarlane also provides the voice for a young child’s beloved teddy bear whom a wish brings to life, but a boyhood dream turns into a nightmare when the boy grows up to become Mark Wahlberg. With Giovanni Ribisi, Mila Kunis.
June 29
MovieStyle, Pages 27 on 06/22/2012