PARKER POSEY'S AUTUMN
Two films featuring the 90's "It Girl" but it's fall.
THE DAYTRIPPERS 1996
With its droll humor and bittersweet emotional heft, the feature debut of writer-director Greg Mottola announced the arrival of an unassumingly sharp-witted new talent on the 1990s indie film scene. When she discovers a love letter written to her husband (Stanley Tucci) by an unknown paramour, the distraught Eliza (Hope Davis) turns to her tight-knit Long Island family for advice. Soon the entire clan—strong-willed mom (Anne Meara), taciturn dad (Pat McNamara), and jaded sister (Parker Posey) with pretentious boyfriend (Liev Schreiber) in tow—has squeezed into a station wagon and headed into Manhattan to find out the truth, kicking off a one-crazy-day odyssey full of unexpected detours and life-changing revelations. Performed with deadpan virtuosity by a top-flight ensemble cast, The Daytrippers is a wry and piercing look at family bonds stretched to the breaking point.
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Sunday, November 3
Director: Greg Mottola
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Starring: Hope Davis, Stanley Tucci, Parker Posey
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Runtime: 87 min., Canada/USA
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Language: English
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THE HOUSE OF YES 1997
Marty Pascal takes his fiancée, Lesly, to his parents' house in Washington for the first time. He hasn't told her much about his mother, his twin sister JackieO, or his younger brother, Anthony. Lesly is a young woman with her feet on the ground who grew up in Pennsylvania and has little in common with this uppermiddleclass family. She is to find out more than she ever had wanted to know about the very disturbed Marty. The bad weather forces all of them to stay inside the house and makes them jettison their plans for a formal dinner with the regulation turkey. There is nothing left to do except to drown their boredom in a sea of rum and Pepsi and reminisce about the good old days by candle light. After Lesly goes through all this series of appearances of weird ghosts of the past and embarrassing confessions, she realizes that her naive expectations of a life of peace and quiet in a reassuring and warm family atmosphere have been wiped away.
Thursday, October 14
Director: Mark Waters
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Starring: Parker Posey, Tori Spelling, Josh Hamilton, Freddie Prinze Jr. ​​
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Runtime: 85 min., USA
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Language: English
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