Taglines: It’s a hard knock life.
Academy Award nominee Quvenzhané Wallis stars as Annie, 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 (Cameron Diaz).
But everything’s about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks (Jamie Foxx) – advised by his brilliant VP, Grace (Rose Byrne) and his shrewd and scheming campaign advisor, Guy (Bobby Cannavale) – 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.
Annie is an American musical comedy-drama film directed by Will Gluck and produced by Jay-Z and Will Smith. It stars Quvenzhané Wallis in the title role and Jamie Foxx in the role of Will Stacks, an update of Daddy Warbucks. It is a contemporary adaptation of the musical of the same name, which in turn is based upon the 1924 comic strip Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray.
The third film adaptation following Columbia Pictures’ 1982 theatrical film and Disney’s 1999 made-for-television film, it began production in August 2013 and will be released on December 19, 2014.
Annie
Directed by: Director: Will Gluck
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Quvenzhané Wallis, Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale, Cameron Diaz, Eden Duncan-Smith, Amanda Troya, Zoe Margaret Colletti, Tracie Thoms
Screenplay by: Will Gluck, Aline Brosh McKenna
Production Design by: Marcia Hinds
Cinematography by: Michael Grady
Film Editing by: Tia Nolan
Costume Design by: Renee Ehrlich Kalfus
Set Decoration by: David Schlesinger
Art Direction by: Patricia Woodbridge
Music by: Greg Kurstin
MPAA Rating: PG for some mild language and rude humor.
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Release Date: December 19, 2014