I saw this film at the Stony Brook Film Festival. The crowd was over 1000 strong and the standing ovation was even stronger. Christopher Plummer, Michael Angarano and M. Emmet Walsh are fantastic. If you don't love this movie, then you don't love movies. Christopher Plummer, M. Emmet Walsh, Michael Schroeder, producer Sarah Schroeder and editor, Terry Cafaro took part in the Q & A that followed. They had the crowd eating out of their hands. Plummer, always so debonair (unlike his Flash character) and Walsh kept the crowd laughing. The film left me filled with imagery, poetry and hope. Michael Schroeder said he didn't make a film reform nursing home neglect, he just wanted folks to leave the theater and call their grandparents to remind them that the mattered in their lives. With such touching performances how can you resist. Kudos to Writer/Director, Michael Schroeder and his talented film team; they really knocked this one out of the park. You'll hear more about MAN IN THE CHAIR at Oscar time and deservedly so.
Review of Man in the Chair
