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With an all star cast including Vanessa Redgrave, Brenda
Fricker, Imelda Staunton and Joss Acland and based on the
award winning short story by best-selling novelist Maeve
Binchy, How About You tells the tale of Ellie, a footloose and
fearless young woman who is left in charge of a residential
home owned and run by her older sister Kate, over the
Christmas period. While most of the residents have gone
home to spend the holidays with their families, four grumpy
old residents known as the “hardcore” remain: retired screen
beauty Georgia (Redgrave), spinster sisters Hazel (Staunton)
and Heather (Fricker), and a reformed alcoholic judge, Donald
(Ackland). They have all led interesting and full lives, but
At the edge of the continent and on the margins of society
is a region nicknamed ‘The Lost Coast.’ It is there, amongst
California’s breathtaking redwood forests, that the last remnants
of the hippie generation live under the radar and off the grid.
After receiving a failing grade from a demanding professor who
just happens to be his father, uCLA medical student Peter Hadley
drowns his sorrows in a jazz club, where he catches the eye of
a sultry singer named Bogart. One thing leads to another, and
Peter awakens far away in the Humboldt County community
where Bogart is, at best, an occasional resident. She takes off,
but he remains, reluctantly, the houseguest of a family headed
by Jack, a physics professor who dropped out of academia
decades earlier for a counterculture life of raising and smoking
how about you
WED NOV 5 8:05 PM-9:45 PM
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now in their twilight years, they have been impossible to live
with – rude and objectionable but hilariously funny. In fact,
their behavior is so terrible that the home faces closure as
potential new residents are put off by their appalling antics.
Ellie would seem no match for the “hardcore” but when she
is pushed to the very limits, she decides to take them on. In
the end, not only does Ellie succeed at beating the uncivilized
seniors at their own game, she herself has changed in
unexpected ways…I’ll be in a home for the holidays…How
about you?
[Dir. Anthony Byrne, 2008, ireland, 35mm, 100 mins.]
humboldt county
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FRI NOV 7 5:05 PM-6:50 PM
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pot. Along with Rosie his Earth Motherly wife, Jack dotes on his
precocious granddaughter Charity while Max the girl’s mercurial
father, tends to the “family business.” Max greets Peter with a
hectoring sarcasm that suggests he isn’t the first stray Bogart
has brought home, and then abandoned. Humboldt County is a
sharply observed, subtly detailed depiction of the cultural clash
that results when an educated outsider immerses himself in a
different socio-economic milieu. Welcome to Humboldt County,
the intoxicating capital of a radical state of mind.
[Dirs. Danny Jacobs & Darren Grodsky, 2008, US, 35mm, 97 mins.]
Website: www.humboldtcountymovie.com