Friday’s openings: Sausages, dragons and literature

Another week and another grand lineup of Hollywood's finest will be screening at your neighborhood metroplex. Friday's openings are as follows:

"Sausage Party": The Hollywood Reporter describes this animated film as "an R-rated comedy about food products waiting to be sold at a supermarket." Seth Rogen (one of four screenwriters) gives voice to a hot dog who harbors lust for a bun (voiced by Kristen Wiig). Forgive the pun, but … it was the best of times, it was the wurst of times.

"Indignation": Writer-director James Schamus adapted Philip Roth's novel about a young Jewish kid (Logan Lerman) attending a mostly gentile Ohio college in 1951 who has trouble adapting to an adult world of unfamiliar expectations. It's Roth, so you know it'll be literary. In other words, no happy ending.

"Pete's Dragon": This blend of live-action and computer-generated Disney remake of its own 1977 production tells the story of a young boy who is both friend and protector of an actual dragon and what happens when some townsfolk attempt to capture the creature. Question: Is the dragon's name Puff?

"Anthropoid": A based-in-fact historical study of Operation Anthropoid, which involved the assassination in 1942 of Nazi SS General Reinhard Heydrich by a British-trained team of Czech and Slovak agents. The German authorities responded with their usual degree of compassion and understanding.

"Florence Foster Jenkins": Veteran British director Stephen Frears offers up this biopic about the title character (played by Meryl Streep) whose riches bought her the chance to sing at Carnegie Hall, even though her vocal abilities would have made Tiny Tim seem like Luciano Pavarotti.

And that's the lot. Go. See a movie. And enjoy.