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Barrymore + Backstage With Barrymore

Showtimes:
Sun, Dec. 9: 7:00pm
Mon, Dec. 10: 7:00pm
Thu, Dec. 13: 7:00pm

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Canada • 84 min • English • Narrative • Digital • 2011 • NR
Directed by: Erik Canuel

Barrymore screens with the "making of" documentary featurette Backstage With Barrymore.

Barrymore (84 min) is the captured-live stage performance starring Academy Award Winner Christopher Plummer (The Sound of Music, 12 Monkeys, The Insider, A Beautiful Mind, Syriana, The Last Station, Beginners) in the tour de force film performance of his career. Set in 1942, Barrymore follows acclaimed American actor John Barrymore, a member of one of Hollywood’s most well-known multi-generational theatrical dynasties. No longer a leading box office star, the film finds Barrymore reckoning with the ravages of his life of excess. He has rented a grand, old theatre to rehearse for a backer’s audition to raise money for a revival of his 1920 Broadway triumph in Richard III. It leads him to look back on the highs and lows of his stunning career and remarkable life. Directed and adapted for the screen by Érik Canuel (Bon Cop, Bad Cop).

Backstage with Barrymore (45 min) is a documentary film about the re-creation of an incredible piece of theatre history. With complete access to the entire process and interviews with each and every one of the people responsible, this film provides intimate and personal interaction with all those who contribute to both the stage production and the film version of Barrymore: The Legacy Performance, including such luminaries as Julie Andrews, Helen Mirren and Zoe Caldwell.

Stick around following Barrymore for the "making of" documentary Backstage with Barrymore (total runtime of 129 minutes).

Special engagement ticket prices apply: $15 General, $12 Student/Senior, $10 Film Society Member.

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