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Saturday, JULY 25, 7:00 PM
TICKLING LEO
World
Premiere—U.S.A.—90 minutes
Written
and directed by Jeremy Davidson.
With Eli
Wallach, Lawrence Pressman, Daniel Sauli, Annie Parisse, Ronald Guttman and
Victoria Clark.
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Set around
the days of Yom Kippur, Tickling Leo follows three generations of a
family whose secrets and resentments threaten to wipe away its future. When
he loses touch with his estranged father, Zak Pikler (Daniel Sauli) and his
girlfriend Delphina (Annie Parisse) travel to an abandoned Catskill lake
where the eccentric poet Warren Yitzchak Pikler (Lawrence Pressman) lives
in solitude and declining health. As Zak copes with his father’s
dementia, Delphina
begins to uncover a secret the Piklers have been hiding since World War II.
Through twists of plot and character, Tickling Leo lays bare the
Pikler family’s humorous, faulty, and always passionate search for an
understanding of what it means to be an American family in the 21st
century. Produced by Mary Stuart Masterson, Steven Weisman, Peter C. B.
Masterson, Paul Schnee and Jeremy Davidson. Director of Photography:
Peter C.B. Masterson. From Barn Door Pictures in association with Highbrow
Entertainment.
Accompanying
short film:
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Flying
Lessons
New
York Premiere—U.S.A.—15
minutes
Written
and directed by Janet Grillo. With Dana Delany.
The
mother of a teenager with autism manages through the day, but still
suffers the impact of his disability.
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