Fall Back Film Schedule
Fall Back Films: Film Flyer and Descriptions
October 22nd: Vertigo - A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becomingobsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deep- ly disturbed. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock (98 minutes / Rated PG)
October 29th: The Uninvited -While vacationing on the Eng- lish coast, composer Rick Fitz- gerald (Ray Milland) and his sister Pamela (Ruth Hussey) find an an abandoned 18th-century house and decide to buy it. The owner, Commander Beech (Donald Crisp), associates it with the tragic death of his daughter and is willing to part with it despite his granddaughter Stella's (Gail Russell) objection. The Fitzgeralds move in and soon find themselves, with the help of Stella, battling it out with two very prickly ghosts. Directed by Lewis Allen (99 minutes / Rated PG)
November 5th: The Kid Detective - A once-celebrated kid detective, now 32, contin- ues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity. Until a naive client brings him his first 'adult' case, to find out who brutally murdered her boyfriend. Directed by Evan Morgan (100 minutes / Rated R)
November 12th: Breathless - A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively mur- ders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he reunites with a hip American journalism student and attempts to persuade her to run away with him to Italy. (90 minutes / Not Rated)
November 19th: Bottle Rocket -In Wes Anderson's first feature film, Anthony (Luke Wilson) has just been released from a mental hospital, only to find his wacky friend Dignan (Owen C. Wilson) determined to begin an outrageous crime spree. After recruiting their neighbor, Bob (Robert Musgrave), the team em- barks on a road trip in search of Dignan's previ- ous boss, Mr. Henry (James Caan). But the more they learn, the more they realize that they do not know the first thing about crime. Directed by Wes Anderson (91 minutes / Rated R)
December 3rd: Little Miss Sunshine - The Hoover family -- a man (Greg Kinnear), his wife (Toni Collette), an uncle (Steve Carell), a brother (Paul Dano) and a grandfather (Alan Arkin) -- puts the fun back in dysfunctional by piling into a VW bus and heading to California to support a daughter (Abigail Breslin) in her bid to win the Little Miss Sunshine Con- test. The sanity of everyone involved is stretched to the limit as the group's quirks cause epic problems as they travel along their interstate route. Directed by Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris (102 minutes / Rated R)
December 10th: The Odd Couple - When fussy Felix (Jack Lemmon) becomes suicidal over his impending divorce, he accepts an offer to move in with his best friend, messy Oscar (Walter Matthau). Fe- lix drives Oscar crazy with his obsession over his soon- to-be ex. Oscar tries to get him out of his funk by ar- ranging a double date with two wacky British neigh- bors, Cecily (Monica Evans) and Gwendolyn (Carole Shelley). When the plan backfires and Felix grows even more despondent, his friendship with Oscar is put to the test. (105 minutes / Rated G)
December 17th: Flirting with Disaster - Adopted as a child, new father Mel Colpin (Ben Stiller) decides he cannot name his son until he knows his birth parents, and determines to make a cross-country quest to find them. Accompanied by his wife, Nancy (Patricia Arquette), and an inept yet gorgeous adoption agent, Tina (Tea Leoni), he departs on an epic road trip that quickly devolves into a farce of mistaken identities, wrong turns, and overzealous and love-struck ATF agents (Josh Brolin, Richard Jenkins). Directed by David O. Russell (92 minutes / Rated R)