POPCORN TAXI PRESENTS
March 31st 2010 15:30
THE GALA PREMIERE OF: ACCIDENTS HAPPEN
audience Q&A with director Andrew Lancaster and
Academy Award winning actress and star,
GEENA DAVIS live on stage!
audience Q&A with director Andrew Lancaster and
Academy Award winning actress and star,
GEENA DAVIS live on stage!
Popcorn Taxi is proud to present the directorial debut of Andrew Lancaster and also welcome back to Australia Ms Geena Davis for her only Sydney Q&A!
Set in 1980’s Connecticut, ACCIDENTS HAPPEN is a wickedly funny and surprisingly moving story about family, fate and misfortune in American suburbia. Since he was a young child, Billy Conway has inexplicably been witness to terrible accidents. When one claims the life of his sister and leaves his brother severely brain-damaged, the weight of holding the family together falls on Billy's shoulders.
Dad has moved out, leaving Billy with his difficult brother and bitter mother. Always the good boy, now 15 Billy begins to stray when he becomes friends with the neighbourhood troublemaker, but his unexpected bad behaviour may lead his family to move on from the past.
Yes, ACCIDENTS HAPPEN. They happen all the time, especially to the Conways.
Director, Andrew Lancaster infuses a magical atmosphere into his debut feature with a vivid visual style and striking production design that coat the story with an ethereal quality. Academy Award® winner Geena Davis is brilliant as Billy's mother, delivering a performance full of nuance while at the same time vitalizing the biting humour laced in screenwriter Brian Carbee's script. And bright newcomer Harrison Gilbertson portrays Billy perfectly as an adolescent caught in the collision of guilt, family responsibility, and self-discovery.
Lancaster is joined by multi-award winning producer Anthony Anderson (Somersault) and executive producer Heather Ogilvie (Hey Hey It’s Esther Blueburger, The Blackwater Lightship). The production team includes Emmy-nominated director of photography Ben Nott, ACS, recipient of the 2008 Excellence Award from the American Cinematographer’s Society. Production design is by Elizabeth Mary Moore, costume design by Academy Award® Winner Ruth Myers and Nina Edwards, editing by Roland Gallois, with an original score by Antony Partos and musical collaboration from Luke Steele and Empire of The Sun.
BUY TICKETS HERE
POPCORN TAXI PRESENTS:
Accidents Happen
plus live audience Q&A with Geena Davis and Andrew Lancaster.
Rated: M 15
Time: 7.30pm SHARP!
Date: Wednesday, April 14
Where: Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace
Address: 380 Military Road, Cremorne.
Price: $26.
Tickets available now from www.popcorntaxi.com.au
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