Special Program
18 1/2
This is a special “Meet the Filmmaker” event that will include a post-film Zoom Q&A with Director/Writer Dan Mirvish and Writer/Producer Daniel Moya.
In 1974, a White House transcriber finds the only copy of the infamous 18½-minute gap in Nixon’s Watergate tapes but her attempts to leak it to the press run afoul of hippies, swingers and nefarious forces. 18½ is an award-winning thriller/comedy by director Dan Mirvish (Between Us, Bernard and Huey, Slamdance Film Festival Co-founder), is 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, and has played in over 20 festivals around the world.
Featuring:
Willa Fitzgerald (Reacher)
John Magaro (First Cow)
Vondie Curtis Hall (Harriet)
Catherine Curtin (Stranger Things)
Richard Kind (Argo)
Sullivan Jones (The Gilded Age)
….and the voices of
Ted Raimi (Spider-Man)
Jon Cryer (Two and a Half Men)
and Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead) as President Richard Nixon
USA, 2022, 89 minutes, PG-13 directed by Dan Mirvish
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“I liked this! It is weird, small, and unexpected.”
– Christy Lemire, FILM WEEK (KPCC – NPR LOS ANGELES) -
“Yes, another Watergate movie, but this one's fun and totally fictional.”
– Ricard Roeper, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES -
“This feature is [Dan Mirvish's] best-directed work and also his most Altman-like.”
– Matt Zoller Seitz, ROGEREBERT.COM -
“’18½’ is a unique version of a political thriller, exploring characters through zany moments of comedy and tense moments of paranoia.”
– Amanda Mazzillo, FILM INQUIRY -
“Mixing dark comedy and mild suspense, Dan Mirvish's’18 ½’ is not the movie many would expect it to be. But the unpredictability of it all makes this madcap political fiction thoroughly diverting.”
– Andrew Stover, FILM THREAT -
“’18½’ is a very funny piece of “What if?” storytelling.”
– Mike McGranaghan, AISLE SEAT