$12 General Admission, $9 Member, $7 child age 14 or younger
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6:45PM pre-show reception with producer Diane English and actress JoBeth Williams.
Post-screening Q&A with JoBeth Williams. She will discuss its cast, production, and lasting appeal after the screening.
A seminal Thirty-Something movie in which a group of old college friends who are now all grown up and hardened by the big wide world come together for the funeral of Alex, a barely glimpsed corpse, who was at one time the brightest and the best of them, and yet who never managed to achieve half as much as any of the others. The friends use the occasion to reacquaint themselves with each other and to speculate as to what happened to their idealism which had been abundant when they were younger.
Actress: JoBeth Williams
JoBeth Williams became a member of the SAG Awards® Committee in 2006 and is president of the board of the charity the SAG-AFTRA Foundation. Her 1979 film debut in Kramer vs. Kramer led to starring roles in such wide-ranging films as Poltergeist, The Big Chill, Stir Crazy, American Dreamer, Switch, Fever Pitch, In the Land of Women, The Big Year and The List. She currently is filming the tense TNT thriller Home, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, having previously appeared in numerous movies for television like Baby M, My Name is Bill W., Adam, Sybil and In My Dreams. She has done a number of series, most recently NBC’s Marry Me and the TBS sitcom Your Family or Mine. Williams previously starred in two other series – John Grisham’s The Client and the comedy Payne – and played recurring characters on Dexter, Private Practice and Hart of Dixie. Ms. Williams has been nominated for three Emmys®, two Golden Globes® and an Oscar®, the latter for directing the short film On Hope. She began her career on the New York stage in plays such as John Guare’s Gardenia, with James Woods and Sam Waterston; Moonchildren; and A Couple of White Chicks. Her most recent stage work includes Other Desert Cities at the Mark Taper Forum, The Fall to Earth at the Odyssey Theatre, The Quality of Life at the Geffen Playhouse, Body Awareness at the Atlantic Theatre Company in New York and The Night is a Child at the Pasadena Playhouse.
“The performances represent ensemble playing of an order Hollywood films seldom have time for, with the screenplay providing each character with at least one big scene.” Vincent Canby New York Times