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Poppy Hill's U.S. Screening Schedule Listed

The official Facebook page for the GKIDS' release of Studio Ghibli's From Up On Poppy Hill anime film posted a list of theaters on Wednesday that will screen the film this month. Screenings are currently scheduled for March 15, 22, and 29, and the list will be updated with more cities and dates as they are announced.

The list currently includes:

March 15
New York - IFC Center
New York - Film Society of Lincoln Center

March 22
Los Angeles - The Landmark

March 29
Chicago - Landmark's Century Centre Cinema
San Francisco - Embarcadero Center Cinema
Palo Alto - CineArts @ Palo Alto Square
Berkeley - Shattuck Cinemas
Boston - Kendall Square Cinema
Seattle - Harvard Exit Theatre
Minneapolis - Uptown Theater
San Diego - Landmark's Hillcrest Cinemas
Long Island - Cinema Arts Centre

From Up On Poppy Hill adapts the 1960's shōjo manga of the same name by Tetsurō Sayama and Chizuru Takahashi. The film follows Umi (The Spiderwick Chronicles' Sarah Bolger) and Shun (Star Trek's Anton Yelchin) in a budding romance as they come together to save their school's clubhouse. Hayao Miyazaki wrote the screenplay adaptation and the film was directed by Goro Miyazaki. GKIDS will release the film in theaters and on home video in North America.

The dub cast includes Gillian Anderson (X-Files, Princess Mononoke), Christina Hendricks (Mad Men, Drive), Ron Howard (Happy Days, American Graffiti), Beau Bridges (The Fabulous Baker Boys), Chris Noth (Sex in the City, The Good Wife), Jamie Lee Curtis (A Fish Called Wanda, Freaky Friday), Emily Osment (Hannah Montana), Bruce Dern (Silent Running, Coming Home), Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World), comedian Jeff Dunham, Charlie Saxton, Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan, The Hunger Games), and Alex Wolff (The Naked Brothers Band).