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FILM: TAMMY
CAST: Melissa Mccarthy, Susan Sarandon, ALLISON JANNEY, GARY COLE, MARK
DUPLASS, DAN AYKROYD, KATHY BATES,
Sandra OH
DIRECTOR: BEN FALCONE
T
ammy (Melissa McCarthy) is
having a bad day. She’s totalled her clunker car, gotten
fired from her thankless job at a
greasy burger joint, and instead of finding comfort at home, finds her husband
getting comfortable with the neighbour
in her own house.
It’s time to take her boom box and
book it. The bad news is she’s broke and
Melissa Mccarthy & Susan Sarandon in ‘Tammy’
FILM: DIE SPOOK VAN UNIONDALE
CAST: Ivan Zimmermann, Tanya Van
Graan, Tobie Cronjé, Adam Tas
DIRECTOR: Pierre Smith
Also showing:
‘The Rover’
Stefan (Adam Tas) is a young businessman who is on his way to visit his folks
in the beautiful Baviaanskloof. When is
car breaks down near the small town
of Uniondale his Easter plans change
drastically. He eventually manages to
get to Willowmore, where he stays until
without wheels. The worse news is her
grandma, Pearl (Susan Sarandon), is her
only option - with a car, cash, and an
itch to see Niagara Falls. Not exactly the
escape Tammy had in mind. But on the
road, with Pearl riding shotgun, it may
be just what Tammy needs.
Road trips are a tradition of comedy
films, but in the hands of married duo
Ben Falcone and McCarthy, their new
movie, ‘Tammy’, is anything but a traditional road trip.
Falcone and McCarthy have been
writing comedy material together since
their early days as Groundlings, where
they met. ‘Tammy’ marks the couple’s
first collaboration on the big screen as
writers. It is also Falcone’s feature directorial debut, and McCarthy’s first foray
into producing.
“I guess you could say it was literally a dream come true,” says Falcone,
who reveals that the idea sprang from
a dream he described to McCarthy
about going on a crazy road trip with
her grandmother. “I always love writing
with Melissa, but to get to direct her was
incredible because she’s so talented and,
of course, funny.”
McCarthy shares, “Ben and I had always talked about writing a movie about
real people who mess up and have to
decide if they are going to keep making
mistakes or change things. Since Ben
has been directing theatre and comedy
A scene from ‘Tammy’
videos for years, we felt it was a natural
progression for him to direct ‘Tammy’.”
Falcone and McCarthy mined their
own Midwest backgrounds to create a
string of colourful characters and situations that revolve around a workingclass woman who gets trapped on an
interminable road trip with her rather
atypical grandmother.
Co-producer Will Ferrell was already
a fan of Falcone and McCarthy and were
eager to work with the pair.
“Melissa has made me laugh hard for
a long time, so when I heard it was her
and Susan Sarandon in a car having wild
adventures, I wanted in,” says Ferrell.
Sarandon, who stars opposite McCarthy as Tammy’s irrepressible grandma,
Pearl, was drawn to the raucous road
trip that Tammy and her grandmother
take, which, surprisingly, becomes an
emotional journey. “The script had such
energy and was flamboyant in its freedom,” she conveys. “I liked that all the
absurd things they go through give Pearl
and Tammy the opportunity to look at
where they are in their lives and take it
up a notch.”
his car gets fixed. There he meets some
eerie characters and he learns about the
legend of the ghost of Uniondale – the
story of Johan (Ivan Zimmermann) and
Marie (Tanya van Graan) who was inseparable from childhood and eventually
got married and whose story ends tragically. Stefan also meets a young girl in
the town, Sonja (Nelda Janse van Rensburg) and the chemistry between them is
undeniable…
FILM: LOVELACE
CAST: Amanda Seyfried, Peter
Sarsgaard, HANK AZARIA, BOBBY
CANNAVALE, SHARON STONE, WES
BENTLEY, ADAM BRODY, JAMES FRANCO
DIRECTOR: ROB EPSTEIN AND JEFFREY
FRIEDMAN
From Academy Award winning
directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (‘Howl’, ‘The Celluloid Closet’) comes the true story
of fame, abuse and betrayal set
against the sexual revolution of the
1970s.
In 1972 - before the internet,
before the porn explosion – ‘Deep
Throat’ was a phenomenon: the
first scripted pornographic theatrical feature film, featuring a story,
some jokes, and an unknown and
unlikely star, Linda Lovelace (Amanda Seyfried). Escaping a strict religious family, Linda discovered freedom and the highlife when she fell
for and married charismatic hustler
Chuck Traynor (Peter Sarsgaard).
As Linda Lovelace she became an
international sensation - less centrefold fantasy than a charming
girl-next-door with an impressive
capacity for fellatio. Fully inhabiting her new identity, Linda became
an enthusiastic spokesperson for
sexual freedom and uninhibited hedonism. Six years later she presented another, utterly contradictory,
narrative to the world - and herself
as the survivor of a far darker story.
Epstein and Friedman’s compassion in depicting complex char-
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Amanda Seyfried in ‘Lovelace’
acters, combined with detailed
and engaging storytelling, made
the captivating life story of Linda
Lovelace a perfect subject for their
second feature. “Linda had an
amazing life, and she was a pivotal
cultural figure at a time when society’s sexual awareness was really
blossoming,” says Epstein. “There’s
the period we think of as the sexual
revolution, which segues into the
rise of feminism, and Linda was an
important character in both those
instances.”
After a lengthy dinner meeting
with Epstein and Friedman, Seyfried was impressed by the direc-
tors’ “perfect vision and meticulous preparation.” It became clear
to the actress that she was going
to completely commit to making
this character come to life. “This
was the first time I’ve stepped out
of my comfort zone, and playing
someone that existed comes with a
lot of responsibility,” says Seyfried.
“Linda worked so hard for so
many years for someone to listen
and to find a voice that was going
to be heard. It’s a tale of survival,
and it was important to me to validate everything she went through,
because it is told through her point
of view.”
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