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Venice Prize Winning ‘Familiar Touch’s Fresh Take On Aging, Caregiving; Korean Hit ‘Hi-Five’; Marlee Matlin Doc & Rebel Wilson In ‘Bride Hard’ – Specialty Preview
Documentary 'Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore', 'Familiar Touch' on aging, 'Hi-Five' from Korea and 'Bride Hard' are new independent films openings this weekend.
Written and directed by Sarah Friedland in her feature debut, it stars Tony-winning stage actress Kathleen Chalfant as Ruth, an older woman with dementia who enters an assisted living facility where she must contend with new faces, routines and surroundings as her own identities and desires shift. Adds LA with Laemmle Royal and Town Center in Glendale and the Riviera in Santa Barbara, the director’s hometown where she launched her career in high school film competitions, with San Francisco, Seattle, Detroit, Toronto and a few other markets next week with an expansion to follow. Quiver Distribution’s Australian prison drama Inside, the directorial debut of Charles Williams, starring Guy Pearce, Cosmo Jarvis and Vincent Miller, opens at the Lumiere in L, a handful of locations in NY Boston, Cleveland and Minneapolis, and on demand.
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