- Starting Out in the Evening
- Sunday, April 20, 2008
- 7:30 p.m.
- The Tower Theatre
- 815 E. Olive Avenue, Fresno [map]
- $10.00 General Admission
- $8.00 for Students and Seniors
Langella is superb, and Starting Out in the Evening is a classy film
David Denby
New Yorker
It honors values that seem obsolete in our trashy popular culture, obsessed with the sex lives of vacuumheads
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
Among the CGI monsterfests of the holiday film season, this quiet, humorous drama of oppositional wills from different generations coming to terms with each other is one of the miracles of the season.
Stephen Hunter
Washington Post
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Synopsis
Though he’s spent most of his career as a character actor in supporting roles, Frank Langella gives the lead performance of a lifetime in STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING, based on the novel by Brian Morton. Flanked by Lili Taylor and Lauren Ambrose, Langella is the central piece in a film that focuses on its characters. The film begins with aging writer Leonard Schiller (Langella, SUPERMAN RETURNS), a man who feels as obsolete as the typewriter he is pounding away at. Though he has four novels to his credit, he has been working on his fifth for a decade. Enter Heather Wolfe (Ambrose, SIX FEET UNDER), a grad student who plans to write her thesis on Schiller’s work. She cajoles the reluctant man into helping her, and they begin a curious friendship.
http://www.startingoutfilm.com
Directed by Andrew Wagner
USA, 2007
111 minutes, PG-13