Membership
THIS EVENT HAS PASSED | In 2003, 30 years after they served together in the Vietnam War, former Navy Corps medic Larry "Doc" Shepherd (Steve Carell) re-unites with Former Marines Sal Nealon (Bryan Cranston) and Reverend Richard Mueller (Laurence Fishburne) on a different type of mission: to bury Doc's son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War. Doc decides to forgo burial at Arlington Cemetery and, with the help of his old buddies, takes the casket on a bittersweet trip up the East Coast to his home in suburban New Hampshire. Along the way, Doc, Sal and Mueller reminisce and come to terms with shared memories of the war that continues to shape their lives.
Film Details
Directed By: Richard Linklater
Starring: Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne, & Steve Carrell
Production | Distribution: Amazon Studios & Lionsgate
Running Time: 124 Minutes
Rating: R
Event Details
| Date: Oct 24 7:00 p.m. Regal Cinemas |
Filmmaker Bio
RICHARD LINKLATER is the filmmaker responsible for such films as Dazed and Confused (1993), regarded as a coming-of-age classic; Before Sunrise (1995), for which he won the Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear Award for Best Director; Before Sunset, which earned him an Academy Award® nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay; and Boyhood (2014), which won multiple BAFTA and Golden Globe® Awards and an Academy Award® for actress Patricia Arquette. He also directed such diverse films as Western/gangster picture The Newton Boys (1998), animated feature Waking Life (2001), real-time drama Tape (2001), hit comedy School of Rock and, most recently, Everybody Wants Some!! (2016).
In 1991 Linklater's made his breakthrough with Slacker, an experimental narrative revolving around 24 hours in the lives of 100 characters. By then he had already made many shorts and completed a Super 8 feature, It's Impossible to Learn to Plow By Reading Books (1988).
Other film credits include Suburbia (1997), Bad News Bears (2005), A Scanner Darkly (2006), Fast Food Nation (2006), Inning by Inning: A Portrait of a Coach (2008), Me and Orson Welles (2009), Bernie (2012) and Before Midnight (2013). On the small screen, he created and directed the 2012 travel show "Up to Speed" and executive-produces the "School of Rock" television series.
Linklater serves as the artistic director for the Austin Film Society, which he founded in 1985 to showcase films from around the world that were not typically screened in Austin. Now one of the nation's top film organizations, the Austin Film Society shows hundreds of films a year, operates educational programs and since 1996 has given out more than $1.5 million in grants to Texas filmmakers.
Guests in Attendance
Novelist and Screenwriter of Last Flag Flying, Daryl Ponicsan will be in attendance to introduce this screening