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| | Department: | Events | | Event Type: | Movie | | Details: | The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “Please Give” on Tuesday, Aug. 17. There will be two screenings of the film at 4:00 and 7:00 p.m. at Harkins Sedona Six Theatres. The film is part of the festival’s Tuesday “Best of Fest” Summer Cinema Series.
Critics and audiences have been raving about “Please Give” since its premieres at the Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals. It features a stellar ensemble cast including two-time Academy Award nominee Catherine Keener and Tony Award nominee Oliver Platt, Amanda Peet, Rebecca Hall and Ann Guilbert.
A good eye for furniture has served Kate (Catherine Keener) and Alex (Oliver Platt) very well: their New York store, specializing in trendy mid-century modern design, is so successful that they’ve been able to buy the apartment next door to their own. They plan to enlarge and remodel the space they share with their teenage daughter Abby (Sarah Steele), but the next-door apartment is still inhabited by its former owner, elderly Andra (Ann Guilbert). Before they can knock down any walls, they have to wait for Andra to vacate — that is, die.
Kate has a lot on her mind. There’s the ethics problem of buying furniture on the cheap at estate sales and marking it up at her trendy Manhattan store (and how much markup can she get away with?). There’s the materialism problem of not wanting her teenage daughter to want the expensive things that Kate wants. There’s the marriage problem of sharing a partnership in parenting, business, and life with her husband Alex but sensing doubt nibbling at the foundations. And there’s Kate’s free-floating 21st-century malaise—the problem of how to live well and be a good person when poverty, homelessness, and sadness are always right outside the door.
Plus, there’s the neighbors: cranky, elderly Andra (Ann Guilbert) and the two granddaughters who look after her (Rebecca Hall and Amanda Peet). As Kate, Alex, and Abby interact with the people next door, with each other, and with their New York surroundings, a complex mix of animosity, friendship, deception, guilt, and love plays out with both sharp humor and pathos.
Click here to see a trailer of the film.
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| | Location: | Harkins Sedona Six Theatres
2081 W. State Route 89A
Sedona, AZ 86336 | |  |
| | Sponsor: | Susan and Eric Henkels |
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