Tuesday, January 20, 2015

REELS FILM SOCIETY JULY 23rd 2015






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



See you at the Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre on the 23rd July 2015