77

(USA, 2008, 106 mins)

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World Premiere

Screenwriter: Patrick Read Johnson
Producers: Leigh Jones, Gary Kurtz, Fred Roos
Editors: Katherine Thomas, Alain Blair, Patrick Read Johnson
Cinematographer: David Blood, Kenneth J. Seng
Music Composer: Alan Parsons, David Russo
Cast: John Fracis Daley, Colleen Camp, Austin Pendleton, Neil Flynn, Steve Coulter

Director Information For 77

Patrick Read Johnson

Part autobiography, part fever-dream, ’77 is the inspired true story of a young man’s cinematic awakening. Patrick Read Johnson (John Frances Daley, TV’s “Freaks and Geeks”) has been a committed film geek since experiencing Kubrick’s 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY as a child, and has passed the time in his small hometown of Wadsworth, Illinois piecing together cheaply made sequels to the sci-fi classics that move him. A visit to Hollywood and a meeting with American Cinematographer editor Herb Lightman (Austin Pendleton), and Pat finds himself talking special effects with a certain Steven named Spielberg, and watching an advance screening of a little film called STAR WARS. Filled with stylistic and visual nods to the films that inspired him, ’77 is Johnson’s nostalgic love letter to the era that birthed the blockbuster, as well as a heartfelt ode to small town ennui. Truly a cinephile’s delight.

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