2015 SLEEPERS
                                                               Part 5 (!)

Could Mr. Movie possibly have another batch of 2015 sleepers up his sleeve? Yep. Here are five more. I hope you will find one you like. And after this round I promise to leave 2015 and move on to other topics!
Bobby Fisher went from being the best chess player in the world and an American hero to weirdest guy in the room. Pawn Sacrifice is the story of his rise and fall and ex-Spiderman Toby Maguire does quite a good job in playing him. Peter Sarsgaard plays Bobby’s Russian nemesis, Boris Spassky. They meet to play for the world championship and though he plays brilliantly, Bobby gets progressively crazier. If the movie is a little over the top, well, so was Mr. Fisher. After the matches he completely fell apart and became a recluse. 
Depending on your age, you might remember CBS anchorman Dan Rather. Truth is the story of his downfall. Robert Redford is just fine as Mr. Rather and Cate Blanchett is his boss, Mary Mapes. Their news crew puts out a story alleging that George W. Bush, seeking re-election to the presidency, received preferential treatment from the Texas Air National Guard. The story is based on documents received from questionable sources. It turns out they could not possibly have been originated at the date alleged, and Mapes and Rather are toast. 
If Helen Mirren has ever given a bad performance I have yet to see it. She pretty well carries Woman In Gold, the true story of Austrian emigre Maria Altman. She is an elderly American who fled the Nazis. The Germans looted art works by the hundreds, including a portrait of Ms. Altman’s aunt which had hung in her Vienna home. She discovers it is now hanging in an Austrian museum and sets out to get it back. She employs Randol Schoenberg, the grandson of her friends and a very green attorney. I disagree with many critics that Ryan Reynolds is over his head as the lawyer. I thought he was just fine. 
Z For Zachariah requires an enormous leap of faith, but if you can make it you will enjoy this strange Icelandic sci-fi film. Margot Robie is a farm girl who has somehow survived a nuclear holocaust in a valley that is still safe. Chewetel Ejiofor, clad in a radiation suit, stumbles into her life. He is a skilled engineer and their ingenuity for living in the valley is highly entertaining. Then a third person, played by Chris Pine, happens into the mix. No further revelations from me !
If you like quirky titles, you just can’t top The One-Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared. And this delightful fantasy delivers all the fun you hoped for. The retirement home, which he loathes, is planning a party for Allan Karlson’s 100th birthday. He wants no part of it, climbs out a window and disappears. A drug dealer asks him to hold a suitcase for him while he visits the facilities. A little absent-minded, Allan gets on his bus with the suitcase and is pursued by nasty thugs and the police. In the meantime, he has various hilarious adventures involving the drug money, and an elephant.         All of the movies in this article are available on DVD and for streaming. All are for grown-ups.