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Man in the Chair (2007) 7.0
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Metascore: 44/100
Reviews: 28 user | 44 critic | 12 from Metacritic.com Christopher Plummer plays Flash, a curmudgeon with a hankering for classic movies and booze. Cameron is a volatile teen who commits grand theft auto just because the car is an exact replica... See full summary » Director:Michael SchroederWriter:Michael Schroeder |
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Flash Madden
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Cameron Kincaid
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Mickey Hopkins
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Taylor Moss
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Joshua Boyd | ... |
Murphy White
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Judy Kincaid
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Floyd
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Mr. Klein
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Taber Schroeder | ... |
Brett Raven
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Jody Ashworth | ... | |
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Woman in theater
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Murray
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Young Flash
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| Rob Reinis | ... |
Teacher
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Christopher Plummer plays Flash, a curmudgeon with a hankering for classic movies and booze. Cameron is a volatile teen who commits grand theft auto just because the car is an exact replica from Christine. Their relationship is forged in the darkness of a movie theater and fueled by a mutual appreciation of rebellion and cinema. Cameron enters a student film contest, though he lacks the resources of his peers. Learning that Flash is a retired Hollywood gaffer-and the only surviving crew member from Citizen Kane-Cameron follows him to his home at the Motion Picture Residence for the Elderly, a colony of aging film folk set aside by the industry. A quirky fellowship develops, in which Flash and his friends help Cameron make his film, and, in doing so, change his life. Written by Mill Valley Film Festival Staff
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movie theater | teen | mentor | german shepherd | los angeles california |Taglines:
Separated by a Generation, United by a Passion See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
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Christopher Plummer's character in the film has a significant relationship with Orson Welles. In reality the two actors worked together on Oedipus the King and Waterloo. See more »Goofs
In one of the "Citizen Kane" flashbacks, Orson Welles' name is misspelled on the clapper slate. See more »Quotes
Flash Madden: [In the process of sabotaging a competitor's gas-powered generator] It's a myth that scripts are the lifeblood of Hollywood - it's gasoline.See more »
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"Symphony #9, Third Movement, Ode To Joy"Courtesy of Associated Production Music
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Saw this film at the Stony Brook Film Festival where my short film preceded it to an audience of about 1000 people! No surprise that it won Audience Favorite for feature films there...the whole theater gave filmmaker Michael Schroeder and actors Christoper Plummer and M. Emmett Walsh a standing ovation! A wonderful film of a crotchety old gaffer living with other retired film people in an LA nursing home for industry people, who comes alive when a young film student enlists him for film-making advice, and then actually making something.
I can easily see Christopher Plummer get Oscar and other nominations later this year...and I also hope that M. Emmett Walsh gets noticed for Best Supporting. He lights up the screen when his love for writing in the film gives him a new purpose later in his life.