“Just when you think Plummer can’t top his late career work… along comes his tour-de-force as the legendary actor in ‘Barrymore’” – Lou Lumenick, New York Post

After premiering at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2011, the acclaimed film BARRYMORE starring Academy Award® winner Christopher Plummer, directed & adapted by Érik Canuel, is based on the play by William Luce. The film also features John Plumpis in the role of “Frank, the Prompter”.

 

In 1997, Luce’s play BARRYMORE premiered on Broadway in a celebrated production starring Mr. Plummer, who won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for the role. In 2011, for the film, Plummer recreated his performance for multiple high-definition cameras, filmed over seven days on location and on the stage at the Elgin Theater in Toronto.

 

BARRYMORE, set in 1942, follows acclaimed American actor John Barrymore, a member of one of Hollywood’s most well known multi-generational theatrical dynasties. No longer a leading box office star, the film finds Barrymore reckoning with the ravages of his life of excess. He has rented a grand, old theatre to rehearse for a backer’s audition to raise money for a revival of his 1920 Broadway triumph in Richard III. It leads him to look back on the highs and lows of his stunning career and remarkable life.

 

Directed, and adapted for the screen, by Érik Canuel (Bon Cop, Bad Cop), BARRYMORE stars Christopher Plummer in the tour de force film performance of his career.

 

Following the feature presentation we go BACKSTAGE WITH BARRYMORE - screenings will include an exclusive behind the scenes look at all the magic that occurred to bring Plummer’s “tour de force” together for opening night.

 

BACKSTAGE WITH BARRYMORE includes interviews with Plummer’s favorite leading ladies: Julie Andrews, Helen Mirren and Zoe Caldwell, to name a few. As they share their show business and personal stories about the actor who is truly one of the world’s greatest, as he prepares to bring his “legacy performance” to the stage.

 

Coming Exclusively to Palace Nova in SA
August 25 & 26
Encores announced soon!