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Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Thursday, December 6, 2007, 7:00 PM
AMC River East 21, 322 E. Illinois, Chicago
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Thursday, December
13, 2007, 7:30 PM
Landmark Century Cinema, 2828 N. Clark
Street, Chicago
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Mad Money
Two Screenings:
Thursday, December 27, 2007, 7:00 PM
Kerasotes Webster
Place, 1441 West Webster, Chicago
and
Thursday, January 3, 2008, 7:00 PM
AMC 600 N. Michigan
Ave., 600 N. Michigan, Chicago
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WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY
** To be followed by a special concert event, performed live by star John C. Reilly in character as Dewey Cox, at the Cubby Bear, 1059 W. Addison St. **
In Columbia Pictures' new comedy Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, co-written and produced by Judd Apatow (Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby; Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy) and co-written, produced, and directed by Jake Kasdan, John C. Reilly stars as the larger-than-life musician and songwriter Dewey Cox.
America loves Cox! But behind the music is the up-and-down-and-up-again story of a musician whose songs would change a nation. On his rock 'n' roll spiral, Cox sleeps with 411 women, marries three times, has 22 kids and 14 stepkids, stars in his own 70s TV show, collects friends ranging from Elvis to the Beatles to a chimp, and gets addicted to—and then kicks—every drug known to man...but despite it all, Cox grows into a national icon and eventually earns the love of a good woman—longtime backup singer Darlene (Jenna Fischer).
Members will receive an email that will admit you and a guest. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Early arrival is suggested.
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THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
With his third film, director and artist Julian
Schnabel ("Basquiat," Before Night Falls") forges a visually stunning,
heart-stirring ode to what drives a man to go on when all truly seems lost.
Through a mesmerizing blast of color, beauty and humor, and a rousing spirit
of creativity, Schnabel tells the story of Jean-Dominique Bauby
(Mathieu Amalric, "Munich"), AKA "Jean-Do," the high-flying editor of
French Elle and father of two, who was renowned for his sense of humor
and style, his joie de vivre and amorous energy, when, in an instant,
his world was plunged into the depths of catastrophe.
Faced with a
harrowing predicament, Jean-Do will use enormous courage and determination
but, most of all, his soaring imagination to escape from his trap. Tapping
into the limitlessness of his memories, fantasies, wit and wishes, he finds a
way to race through experiences of wonder and grief, sex and love, fatherhood
and childhood, faith and questioning, ecstasy and absurdity – and touches the
very essence of what it is to be human.
"The Diving Bell and the
Butterfly" is directed by Julian Schnabel, ho garnered the Director's Award
at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival for he film, and is written by Academy
Award® winner Ronald Harwood ("The Pianist"), based on the internationally
acclaimed memoir by Jean-Dominique Bauby. The producers are Kathleen Kennedy
and Jon Kilik and the executive producers are Pierre Grunstein and Jim
Lemley.
Members will receive an email that will admit you and a guest. Seating
is on a first-come, first-served basis. Early arrival is suggested.
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MAD MONEY
Academy Award® winner Diane Keaton (Something’s Gotta Give), Oscar® nominee Queen Latifah (Chicago) and Katie Holmes (Thank You for Smoking) star in Mad Money, a comedy about three ordinary women who form an unlikely friendship and decide to do something extraordinary—rob one of the most secure banks in the world.
Mad Money is directed by Academy Award® winner Callie Khouri (screenwriter of Thelma and Louise, director of Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood), from a script by Glen Gers (Fracture).
Bridget Cardigan (Diane Keaton) is shocked to learn that she is on the verge of losing her home and comfortable upper middle class lifestyle when her husband Don (Ted Danson) is downsized from his job. Armed only with a decades old English degree and years as a dedicated mother and corporate wife, Bridget is forced into the unfamiliar labor market with no job skills. Finally, she accepts the only position she can find—janitor at the Federal Reserve Bank.
The one-time suburban mom soon discovers she has more in common with her new co-workers than she thought. Bridget forges an unexpected bond with Nina (Queen Latifah), a hard-working single mom with two kids to raise, and Jackie (Katie Holmes), an exuberant free spirit with nothing to lose. Caught up in a system that underestimates their talents and keeps their dreams just out of reach, Bridget, Nina and Jackie set out to even the score.
After a lifetime of playing by the rules, the three devise a plan to smuggle soon-to-be destroyed currency out of the supposedly airtight Reserve. As the unlikely crime syndicate amasses piles of cash, it looks like they have pulled off the perfect crime—until a minor misstep alerts the authorities. With more money than they know what to do with, the women are pushed to the limits of their ingenuity to stay one step ahead of the law!
Members will receive an email that will admit you and a guest. Seating
is on a first-come, first-served basis. Early arrival is suggested.
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