RELATIVE | IN-PERSON (7/9)
RELATIVE | IN-PERSON (7/9)
Chicago Filmmakers (map) | July 9 at 7:00 PM: Produced by Newcity’s Chicago Film Project, this dramedy explores the love and conflicts that arise in a family at a crossroads. How will the Frank family handle separations, new romances and empty-nesting following the college graduation of the youngest member of their clan? Time, love, family reunions and online proclivities test all characters in this ensemble film.
RELATIVE
Join us for a screening of Michael Glover Smith’s RELATIVE at Chicago Filmmakers on Saturday, July 9 at 7PM. Followed by a Q&A with writer/director Michael Glover Smith and actress Elizabeth Stam moderated by film critic Cati Glidewell (http://theblondeinfront.com/).
RELATIVE is a comedy/drama about three days in the life of a modern American family. Karen Frank (Wendy Robie) and her husband David (Francis Guinan) are retirement-age progressive activists who have lived in the same Victorian home in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood for 30 years. It's the house in which their four children grew up and where two of their children, adult sons Benji (Cameron Scott Roberts) and Rod (Keith D. Gallagher), still live. On the eve of Benji’s graduation from college, daughters Evonne (Clare Cooney) and Norma (Emily Lape) return home from out-of-state for a weekend celebration. Evonne brings her daughter, Emma (Arielle Gonzalez), and newly separated wife, Lucia (Melissa DuPrey); Norma arrives alone, with thoughts of wasted potential as she reconsiders her suburban life; Rod, an unemployed burnout, pines for Sarah (Heather Chrisler), the “cam girl" ex who left him years ago; and all Benji wants to do is escape the party to rendezvous with Hekla (Elizabeth Stam), a free-spirited actress he met the night prior. As David and Karen announce the potential sale of their home, each member of the Frank family finds their bonds with the others being tested – and strengthened – in surprising ways.
Visit the film’s website for more information: https://www.chicagofilmproject.com/relative/
Directed by Michael Glover Smith
Produced by Aaron Wertheimer, Clare Cooney, Brian and Jan Hieggelke
Key Cast: Wendy Robie, Francis Guinan, Cameron Scott Roberts, Clare Cooney, Elizabeth Stam
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