"Labor Day" centers on 13-year-old Henry Wheeler, who struggles to be the man of his house and care for his reclusive mother Adele while confronting all the pangs of adolescence. On a back-to-school shopping trip, Henry and his mother encounter Frank Chambers, a man both intimidating and clearly in need of help, who convinces them to take him into their home and later is revealed to be an escaped convict. The events of this long Labor Day weekend will shape them for the rest of their lives. Depressed single mom Adele and her son Henry offer a wounded, fearsome man a ride. As police search town for the escaped convict, the mother and son gradually learn his true story as their options become increasingly limited.

Rugged leading man Josh Brolin was raised on a horse ranch in California, a fact that would come to inform his persona as an actor in years to come. But when the 17 year old made his big-screen debut in 1985's The Goonies, most viewers knew him as the son of actor James Brolin. The younger Brolin didn't shy away from his Hollywood roots, and when he relocated to L.A. to pursue an acting career, he moved in with his dad while he studied the craft under the esteemed Stella Adler. He soon followed his appearance in The Goonies with a lead role in the series Private Eye, and though the show didn't last, Brolin decided to stay in TV, starring in the Western series Young Riders. The show ended its three-year run in 1992, when Brolin's marriage to Alice Adair ended as well, and Brolin seemed intent on flying under the radar for the next several years, pursuing mostly smaller, independent projects like My Brother's War and Mimic. In 2004, he married actress Diane Lane. In 2007, he caught on with a new core group of fans when he played the sinister Doc Block in Robert Rodriguez's instant cult favorite Planet Terror, one half of the Grindhouse double feature. Later that same year, however, he would be reintroduced to audiences on a much huger scale when he took the lead role in the Coen brothers' highly acclaimed No Country for Old Men.

TITLE	Labor Day
ORIGINAL_TITLE
YEAR	2013
RATING	6.7
GENRES	Drama
DIRECTORS	Jason Reitman
WRITERS	Jason Reitman Joyce Maynard
CAST	Kate Winslet Josh Brolin Tobey Maguire Clark Gregg James Van Der Beek Dylan Minnette Brooke Smith Maika Monroe Gattlin Griffith Sarah Fischer Elena Kampouris Tom Lipinski Alexie Gilmore Matthew Rauch Brighid Fleming Alex Ziwak Stephanie Atkinson Lucas Hedges Grace Thorsen James Chen Jeff Witzke Jeffrey Corazzini Kallie Tabor Jessica Kent Aingea Venuto Alexandra East Billy 'V' Vigeant Kilo Alexander Suzanne Prunty George J. Vezina
STARS	Kate Winslet Josh Brolin Tobey Maguire Clark Gregg James Van Der Beek
PRODUCERS	Michael Beugg Jason Blumenfeld Helen Estabrook Lianne Halfon Steven M. Rales Jason Reitman Mark Roybal Russell Smith
MUSICIANS	Rolfe Kent
CINEMATOGRAPHERS	Eric Steelberg
EDITORS	Dana E. Glauberman
MPAA_RATING	PG-13
RELEASE_DATE	31 January 2014
TAGLINE
PLOT	Depressed single mom Adele and her son Henry offer a wounded, fearsome man a ride. As police search town for the escaped convict, the mother and son gradually learn his true story as their options become increasingly limited.

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