The Groomsmen
SOLD OUT
IN PERSON - September
28
Ed Burns'
in-person appearance here at the Cinema has been
rescheduled for Thursday, September 28 at 7:15pm
In one week’s time Paulie (Ed Burns) will be married to his beautiful fiancée, Sue (Brittany Murphy). She’s about to have a baby. But with his four groomsmen getting together for one last week of extended adolescence before the big day, it’s Paulie who is going to have to grow up, something that guys find hard to do. As he bands together with his gang of lifelong pals from the same suburban New York neighborhood – his brother Jimbo (Donal Logue), Cousin Mike (Jay Mohr), Dez (Matthew Lillard) and T.C. (John Leguizamo) – Paulie can’t help but get a nagging feeling that he’s about to lose some vital part of who he is. He isn’t the only one affected by the impending nuptials. As the gang settles into a form of their old life of softball games and rehearsing the band they all had high hopes for, their secret fears, hopes and misconceptions come to the surface. Struggling to shuffle off their extended adolescence...or early midlife crisis, they wrestle with concepts of fatherhood, honesty and personal responsibility. As the wedding day grows closer, Paulie begins to see that though bonds with friends can change, they never break, and life continues to hold great wonders, even when you grow up. "I was definitely interested in writing a story about men in their mid-30s reaching that age where they should be behaving like men yet they can’t let go of their adolescent selves," Burns explained. Burns shot the film in City Island, the Bronx, and the Ditmas neighborhood of Brooklyn. Burns and cinematographer William Rexer create an idyllic vision of suburban life, with vibrant green parks, tidy lawns and lovingly maintained Victorian houses. It’s what Burns calls "a love letter to New York," he says. "We are New York filmmakers. It’s
important for us to tell New York stories."
USA, 2006, 98 min., color • Director/writer: Edward Burns • Cinematographer: William Rexer • Cast: Edward Burns, Brittany Murphy, Donal Logue, Jay Mohr, Matthew Lillard, John Leguizamo.
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