12 October 2023
Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves (2023)
Get out the popcorn and round up the family for the #16 biggest box office hit of the year so far! Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves brings the tabletop role-playing game to life with a charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers who embark on an epic quest to retrieve a lost relic.
Directed and co-written by the BAFTA-nominated team of John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (Spider-Man: Homecoming), Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves has a 91% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with IndieWire predicting, “The heartfelt story, enchanting characters, dazzling visual effects, and fun-filled nature will [make it] a treasured classic.”
Emmy nominee Chris Pine (Wonder Woman’s Steve Trevor, and Kirk in the Star Trek movies) leads the cast as thieving bard Edgin Darvis. Also look out for six-time Teen Choice nominee Michelle Rodriguez (Letty in the Fast & Furious movies), Black Reel nominee Justice Smith (Tim in Pokémon: Detective Pikachu), MTV Movie Award winner Sophia Lillis (Sydney in I Am Not Okay with This, Beverly in It), Emmy nominee Regé-Jean Page (Simon Basset in Bridgerton) and BAFTA winner Hugh Grant (the dastardly Phoenix Buchanan in Paddington 2), not to mention a cameo from nine-time Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper (the voice of Rocket in the Guardians of the Galaxy and Avengers movies).
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