November Now Playing: Happy Valley Deconstructs the Penn State Scandal

Nate von Zumwalt

Before we turn our collective attention to a new season of independent film, a handful of releases from the 2014 Sundance Film Festival round out the year. Director Mona Fastvold’s unsettling drama The Sleepwalker, recently picked up by IFC, meditates on several fractured relationships forced to run their course in a secluded Massachusetts mansion, while Amir Bar-Lev’s Happy Valley provokes a far more disturbing variety of distress in its scathing deconstruction of the child sex abuse scandal at Penn State.

Below, check out all of the Sundance-supported films hitting theaters and coming to DVD and Blu-Ray.

In Theaters

Wednesday, November 19

Happy Valley, directed by Amir Bar-Lev

Thursday, November 20

An Illiad, PBS (taped live performance), 10 p.m.

Friday, November 21

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, directed by Ana lily Amirpour

The Sleepwalker, directed by Mona Fastvold

Friday, November 28

The Babadook, directed by Jennifer Kent

DVD & Blu-Ray

Tuesday, November 4

A Most Wanted Man, directed by Anton Corbijn

Tuesday, November 11

The Babadook, directed by Jennifer Kent

Happy Christmas, directed by Joe Swanberg 

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