The Debut, written, directed, and scored by Jesse Eisenberg (A Real Pain), tells the story of Mona Friedman (Julianne Moore, May December). When Mona is cast in a bit part at a small community theater, she transforms from a shy, unassuming housewife into a zealous method actor willing to do anything to protect the artistic integrity of her marginal role—even if it means waging war against the show’s domineering director (Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers).
The Debut
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Legend
OCOpen Captioned
Special Content
35mm
SFSensory Friendly
Cinema Studies
The Debut
Opens December 25
Tickets: $11 (members), $16 (nonmembers)
"[Jesse Eisenberg has] proven his talent as a director twice previously, but The Debut is his most accomplished film to date."
"The Debut is at once an affectionate homage to the wide-eyed passion of community theater; a deftly original thriller; a parable of self-esteem; a teasing mockery of the mechanisms of self-esteem; and a one-woman psychodrama in which Mona discovers who she is by leaving her old reality behind."
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