2016 SLEEPERS
                                                           Part 6

Is Mr. Movie about to run out of good 2016 sleepers? Actually, yes, and here are the last five.
The story of Ray Kroc and MacDonalds’ rise to international fame and fortune is well told in The Founder. And the perfectly cast Michael Keaton brings Kroc to life. He starts out as a traveling salesman for milkshake machines. He stumbles on MacDonalds’ hamburgers in a small California town. These guys have maximized cooking and delivery into an art form. They are artistes and he is a money-grubbing entrepreneur. Clashes are inevitable. Getting there is all the fun. Guess who wins.
Whether you like Barack Obama or not, most everybody (even Trump!) likes Michelle. And Southside With You is a very sweet and possibly mostly true biopic about their meeting and subsequent romance. You see flashes of brilliance in both the main characters and nicely rewarding back stories of their lives. How did an unknown lawyer working for pennies for a non-profit rise to the presidency? This movie gives us some idea. Using little-known actors add to the authenticity.
The Infiltrator features Brian Cranston of Breaking Bad fame as Robert Mazur, an undercover agent who merely managed to take down cartel leader Pablo Escobar and the banks that laundered his profits. This is, as they say, based on a true story and there are some white knuckle moments along the way for the main character. This film is based on Mazur’s book and I’m frankly astonished the guy is still alive. 
We’ve liked Sally Field way before she famously told us we did at the Oscars. She is the clueless ugly duckling in Hello, My Name Is Doris. Doris has lived with her mother her whole life, and now lives alone in the family home. She becomes infatuated with a much younger fellow employee and goes after him hammer and tongs. This bittersweet film careens between feeling sorry for her and laughing at and with her, and it is a part not every actor could carry off. But Ms. Field does so with charm and moxie. 
The title alone would tell you that Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children is a Tim Burton film. In darkest Wales Miss Peregrine (Eva Green) runs a home for strange children that nobody else wants. The home was seemingly destroyed by a Luftwaffe raid in 1943, but it turns out there are survivors who continue to live through a portal in time. I know it sounds weird, and it is, but what did we expect? It’s also quite a lot of fun. 
All of the films in this article are available on DVD. All are for adults.