By / ScenicSpot.com Editorial Team
This week’s new releases include Never Expected, the latest masterpiece from Nitesh Tiwari, the globally box office billion-dollar director behind Dangal—India’s top Bollywood filmmaker—and Genius Plan, an end-of-year laugh riot that surpasses Ted, the ultimate hilarious comedy. Get ready to catch these movies after work or on the weekend！
Never Expected
To help his demotivated son regain his fighting spirit, a dad decides to reunite all his old school buddies—the once mischievous “Loser Squad” who went their separate ways and became high-flying successes. Reliving memories from youth to middle age, absurd and crazy moments come flooding back. This time, the dad uses his own story to prove to his son that even if you’re young, lost, and confused, there’s nothing you can’t do in life, only things you haven’t thought of yet. The endless possibilities of the future are all within your grasp if you dare to create them！
Release Date: November 15, 2019
Duration: 2 hours 23 minutes
Distributor: Catch Play
Director: Nitesh Tiwari
Cast: Sushant Singh Rajput, Shraddha Kapoor, Varun Sharma, Prateik Babbar, Tahir Raj Bhasin, Naveen Polishetty, Tulsi Pandey
Genius Plan
I’m about to climax, hold me tighter！
Phil (played by Adam DeVine) is a homebody who’s hopelessly addicted to his smartphone, relying entirely on its AI assistant for every aspect of life. One day, Phil accidentally breaks his phone and is forced to switch to a brand-new device. However, the new phone comes with an AI named Jessie (voiced by Rose Byrne), who seems to be seriously defective. Not only does she constantly contradict Phil, but she also takes it upon herself to confess his feelings to his crush, Kate (played by Alexandra Shipp), making him look like a creepy stalker and leading to a series of embarrassing disasters. Yet, amidst the chaos, Phil’s life starts to change in subtle ways… With Jessie’s help, he even manages to fall in love with Kate. But when the neglected Jessie becomes jealous of Kate, she decides to use her power in the digital world to gain the upper hand in this “love triangle between man, woman, and machine”…
Release Date: November 15, 2019
Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes
Distributor: Chaichang
Directors: Jon Lucas, Scott Moore
Cast: Rose Byrne, Adam DeVine, Alexandra Shipp
Hypnosis?Verdict
Zhang Liusheng (played by Nick Cheung), an internationally renowned hypnotherapist and a member of the jury in a sensational Hong Kong murder trial, suddenly receives news on the final day of deliberation that his daughter Yin Yin has been kidnapped. The kidnappers demand that he hypnotize at least four jury members within 90 minutes to manipulate and distort the trial’s outcome—or they will kill his daughter. To save his daughter, Zhang Liusheng agrees and secretly teams up with Yang Kai (played by Zhang Han), a former special forces operative, in a race against time to rescue her.
Release Date: November 15, 2019
Distributor: Jia Shang
Directors: Lai Siu Kwan, Shi Bolin, Liu Yongtai
Cast: Nick Cheung, Zhang Han, Qin Pei, Elaine Jin, Candice Yu, Bosco Wong, Cheng Cho Wah
Evidence
The remains of a father discovered decades later turn out to be the only clue connecting a web of conspiracies…
After her mother’s passing, Laura moves in with her beloved stepfather, Alfredo. Their new life seems idyllic—until a call from her uncle throws everything into chaos.
The uncle claims that police in their ancestral home in Spain’s Basque Country have unexpectedly found the remains of Laura’s father. But in Laura’s memory, her father was the villain who abandoned his family decades ago and embezzled the family fortune. To uncover the truth, she and her stepfather must fly back to their hometown and ask the police to reopen the case—but their request is denied due to the amount of time that has passed. Just then, a rookie insurance agent named Igoski appears, claiming that Laura’s father took out an insurance policy with their bank before his death, leaving behind a sum of money for her as if he had known his time was running out.
Amidst various mysteries and seemingly unrelated clues, Lara decides to uncover the truth behind her father's death herself.
Release date: November 15, 2019
Duration: 1 hour 41 minutes
Distributor: Ben Cui Film
Director: Igor Legarreta
Cast: Florence Torent, Mitch Eshab, Eduardo Blanco
HELLO WORLD
Set in Kyoto in the year 2027, the film follows a high school student named Naoki (voiced by Takumi Kitamura), who is suddenly confronted by a young man claiming to be his future self from ten years later (voiced by Takeru Satoh). The mysterious visitor urges Naoki to join him in changing the future — all to save his classmate Ruri Ichigyō (voiced by Kanna Hashimoto), with whom he is destined to begin a relationship in three months. But what is the true motive behind this? And what astonishing secrets lie hidden beneath the surface of reality?
Release date: November 15, 2019
Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes
Distributor: Garage Play
Director: Tomohiko Itō
Cast: Takumi Kitamura, Kanna Hashimoto, Takeru Satoh
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