Writer/director Taika Waititi (director of THOR RAGNAROK and HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE) brings his signature style of humor and pathos to his latest film, JOJO RABBIT, a World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy (Roman Griffin Davis as Jojo) whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother (Scarlett Johansson) is hiding a young Jewish girl (Thomasin McKenzie) in their attic. In spite of his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler (Waititi), Jojo confronts his blind nationalism.

With her longtime job at a Nevada plant a casualty of the Great Recession, sixtyish recent widow Fern (Frances McDormand) sold off everything, purchased a van, and embarked upon life on the road. Subsisting on temp jobs and tapping into insights from an emergent community of vandwelling nomads, she finds a transient existence can forge lasting bonds. Chlo~ Zhao's acclaimed character study/cultural observation, performed by a mostly non-actor cast, co-stars David Strathairn, Bob Wells. 108 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English.