Thursday 23rd July at the SRHT
"NEBRASKA" (USA) 2013
Reels Film Society is delighted to bring you "NEBRASKA" nominated for 6 Academy Awards and the prestigious Palme d'Or award at Cannes in 2013.
This is the story about a cantankerous old b.....d by the name of Woody Grant (Bruce Dern) who can barely
walk down the street of his home in Billings, Montana, without stopping for a
drink. So when Woody receives receives a sweepstakes notice in the mail and
insists on making a 750-mile trip to Lincoln, Nebraska, to collect his prize, it
falls to baffled son David (Will Forte) to accompany him. During a stop in
their Nebraska hometown, word gets out about Woody's fortune, first making him
a hero, then later, the target of predatory people.
Genre: A Drama filmed in black and white.
Classification: MA+
Director: Alexander Payne
Starring: Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb and Stacy Keach.
IMDB
rating: 7.8
Rotten Tomatoes: 91%
Running time: 115 minutes
This is the story about a cantankerous old b.....d by the name of Woody Grant (Bruce Dern) who can barely walk down the street of his home in Billings, Montana, without stopping for a drink. So when Woody receives receives a sweepstakes notice in the mail and insists on making a 750-mile trip to Lincoln, Nebraska, to collect his prize, it falls to baffled son David (Will Forte) to accompany him. During a stop in their Nebraska hometown, word gets out about Woody's fortune, first making him a hero, then later, the target of predatory people.
Director: Alexander Payne
Starring: Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb and Stacy Keach.
Rotten Tomatoes: 91%
Running time: 115 minutes
See you at the Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre on the 23rd July 2015
