View all films releasing this week at https://www.montereyupperhutt.co.nz/coming-soon

The Housemaid

Running time: 131 minutes

Rated: R16 (Domestic violence, sexual violence, self-harm, wound detail, cruelty & sex scenes)

Follows a struggling woman who is happy to start over as a housemaid for an affluent, elite couple.

Book here: https://www.montereyupperhutt.co.nz/movie/the-housemaid

View trailer at IMDB.com: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27543632/videoplayer/vi928892953/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3_tt_7_nm_0_in_0_q_The%2520housemaid

Tu Meri Main Tera Main Tera Tu Meri

Running time: 144 minutes

Rated: M (Offensive language & sexual references)

When a carefree NRI wedding planner and a headstrong novelist collide during a wild summer in Croatia, sparks fly in ways neither expected. What begins as playful clashes soon transforms into something deeper – only to be tested when love, family, and tradition pull them in opposite directions. Set against the sun-soaked shores of Europe and the timeless beauty of Agra, ‘Tu Meri Main Tera Main tera Tu Meri’ is a sweeping tale of passion, destiny, and the choices that define us.

Book here: https://www.montereyupperhutt.co.nz/movie/tu-meri-main-tera-main-tera-tu-meri

View trailer at IMDB.com: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35146696/videoplayer/vi3517434649/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_Tu%2520Meri

Anaconda

Running time: 99 minutes

Rated: M (Violence & offensive language)

Doug (Jack Black) and Griff (Paul Rudd) have been best friends since they were kids, and have always dreamed of remaking their all-time favourite movie: the cinematic “classic” Anaconda. When a midlife crisis pushes them to finally go for it, they head deep into the Amazon to start filming. But things get real when an actual giant anaconda appears, turning their comically chaotic movie set into a deadly situation. The movie they’re dying to make? It might just get them killed……

Book here: https://www.montereyupperhutt.co.nz/movie/anaconda

View trailer at IMDB.com: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33244668/videoplayer/vi4071082777/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_Anaconda

Not Only Fred Dagg

Running time: 107 minutes

Rated: M (Offensive language)

When satirist John Clarke died in 2017, the world mourned an icon. A defining comedic voice for over forty years, Clarke gave away very little about his own life. At home, by contrast, he was an open book. In a remarkable series of recorded conversations, John and his daughter (writer/director Lorin Clarke) trace his steadfast resistance to authority back to his childhood, delve into his early career forging a career in New Zealand, and offer delightful insights into his four decades in the entertainment industry

Book here: https://www.montereyupperhutt.co.nz/movie/not-only-fred-dagg

View trailer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aszQITVWIkE&pp=ygUabm90IG9ubHkgZnJlZCBkYWdnIHRyYWlsZXI%3D

Rental Family

Running time: 110 minutes

Rated: M (Offensive language)

Set against modern-day Tokyo, RENTAL FAMILY follows an American actor (Brendan Fraser) who struggles to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese “rental family” agency, playing stand-in roles for strangers. As he immerses himself in his clients’ worlds, he begins to form genuine bonds that blur the lines between performance and reality. Confronting the moral complexities of his work, he rediscovers purpose, belonging, and the quiet beauty of human connection.

Searchlight Pictures presents RENTAL FAMILY, directed, co-written and produced by HIKARI (“Beef”, “Tokyo Vice”, 37 Seconds). The film stars Academy Award® and Screen Actors Guild award winner Brendan Fraser (The Whale, The Mummy, Encino Man) with a supporting cast that includes Emmy® nominee Takehiro Hira (“Shogun”), Mari Yamamoto (“Pachinko,” “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters”), Akira Emoto (Lovers Lost, Shin Godzilla, Dr. Akagi) and newcomer Shannon Gorman. With a screenplay by HIKARI and Stephen Blahut (37 Seconds), the film is produced by Sight Unseen Pictures’ Julia Lebedev (Dear White People, Bad Education) and Eddie Vaisman (Wildlife, A Thousand and One), as well as Knockonwood’s Shin Yamaguchi (37 Seconds, Spirit World). Jennifer Semler (A Real Pain, Theater Camp), Tomo Koizumi, Blahut, Leonid Lebedev (Bad Education), Fraser, and Oren Moverman (The Messenger, Love & Mercy) are executive producers.

Joining filmmaker HIKARI behind the camera are director of photography Takurô Ishizaka (All of Us Strangers, Snake Eyes), production designers Norihiro Asoda (The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi) and Masako Takayama (“Tokyo Vice”), editors Alan Baumgarten and Thomas A. Kruger, composers Jónsi and Alex Somers, costume designer Meg Mochizuki (37 Seconds), makeup department head Hiromi Momose (Like Father, Like Son), and casting directors Kei Kawamura and Yumi Takada.

Book here: https://www.montereyupperhutt.co.nz/movie/rental-family

View trailer at IMDB.com: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14142060/videoplayer/vi2681063449/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_Rental%2520Family

The Spongebob Movie: Search for SquarePants

Running time: 96 minutes

Rated: PG (Violence)

SpongeBob and his Bikini Bottom friends set sail in their biggest, all-new, can’t miss cinematic event ever…The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants. Desperate to be a big guy, SpongeBob sets out to prove his bravery to Mr. Krabs by following The Flying Dutchman – a mysterious swashbuckling ghost pirate – on a seafaring comedy-adventure that takes him to the deepest depths of the deep sea, where no Sponge has gone before.

Book here: https://www.montereyupperhutt.co.nz/movie/the-spongebob-movie-search-for-squarepants

View trailer at IMDB.com: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23572848/videoplayer/vi1381943321/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_The%2520Spongebob%2520Movie

Source: Monterey Cinemas Upper Hutt

23/12/25