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Coming this week at Cinema Arts Centre: NEBRASKA
NEBRASKA Starts November 27
Bruce Dern gives a brilliant performance in Alexander Payne’s (Sideways, About Schmidt, Election, The Descendants) bittersweet comic tale about an old man who thinks he has won a million dollars.
On the outskirts of Billings, Montana, an old man named Woody (Bruce Dern) is picked up by the roadside. He is going for a long walk, to Lincoln, Nebraska where he believes a million dollar prize awaits. His mild-mannered son Dave (Will Forte), tired of explaining reality to his taciturn dad and pacifying his exasperated mom (June Squibb), agrees to drive Woody all the way to Lincoln.Alexander Payne’s new film, from a script by fellow Nebraskan Bob Nelson, is a melancholy comedy that shades into multiple hues and overtones – the most hilarious stretch logically develops into the most moving passage (the family’s return to their old house); the sharp comic edges, based on a close understanding of Midwestern reserve, form just one element in Payne’s greater emotional pattern. Filled with wonderful characters and composed in the most expressive black and white in years, Nebraska is a portrait of a way of life and of the single life of one quiet man. (USA, 2013, 115 min., Black & White, Rated R, DCP | Director: Alexander Payne | Writer: Bob Nelson | Cast: Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb, Bob Odenkirk, Stacy Keach | Winner: Best Actor – 2013 Cannes Film Festival | 2013 New York Film Festival)
