Marjorie Prime

Q&A actress Lois Smith and filmmaker Michael Almereyda with JBFC Board President Janet Maslin

2017. 98 m. Michael Almereyda. FilmRise. US. English. Rated NR.

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In the near future, a time of artificial intelligence, we meet 86-year old Marjorie (Lois Smith, The Nice Guys), a jumble of disparate, fading memories. Marjorie has a handsome new companion: a holographic recreation of her deceased husband, Walter (Jon Hamm, AMC’s Mad Men), who is programmed to feed the story of her life back to her. Directed by Michael Almereyda (Experimenter), and based on Jordan Harrison’s Pulitzer-nominated play, Marjorie Prime is “suffused with warmth, the core of it emanating from Smith… [who] gives wrenching human form to the conflict between remembering and forgetting” (The Hollywood Reporter).

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Q&A actress Lois Smith and filmmaker Michael Almereyda with JBFC Board President Janet Maslin

Tuesday, Oct. 3 2017, 7:30

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Award-winning actress Lois Smith’s legendary career has spanned six decades, with diverse roles in film, television, and theatre. Smith began her film career in supporting roles in East of Eden and Five Easy Pieces, and had her Broadway debut at the age of 22 in Time Out for Ginger. Smith’s film credits include Fatal Attraction, Dead Man Walking, Twister, The Laramie Project, and recently, The Nice Guys, and The Comedian. Smith has appeared on Desperate Housewives, True Blood, and The Americans. She has received two Tony Award nominations for Buried Child and The Grapes of Wrath, as well as an Obie Awards’ Lifetime Achievement honor.

Award-winning filmmaker Michael Almereyda is known for directing Experimenter, starring Winona Ryder, Hamlet, starring Ethan Hawke, and Twister, his first film featuring Lois Smith. His most recent film, Marjorie Prime, won the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.