Grab a drink and let’s go see a movie! Bring friends and some good conversation to discuss the film, its characters, the production and more. The Living Room Theater is the location of our weekly Monday meetup. Most movies they play are independent, foreign, artistic with an occasional blockbuster.

We meet Monday evenings to take advantage of their $5 Merry Monday Movie special. They have weekday showings of all their movies in the 7:00 hour, and those are the showings we’re shooting for. If you see something coming up there that you’d like to recommend as our Living Room movie of the week, message me or post it on the board by Wednesday the previous week

MAP TO THE STARS

Meet the Weiss family, who are making their way in Hollywood rife with money, fame, envy, and relentless hauntings. Stafford Weiss (John Cusack) is a famed TV self-help therapist with an A-list celebrity clientele. Meanwhile, Cristina Weiss (Olivia Williams) has her work cut out managing the career of their disaffected child-star son, Benjie (Evan Bird), a fresh graduate of rehab at age 13. Yet unbeknownst to them, another member of the Weiss family has arrived in town – mysteriously scarred and tormented Agatha (Mia Wasikowska), just released from a psych ward and ready to start again. She soon works her way into a friendship with a limo driver (Robert Pattinson) and becomes personal assistant to unraveling actress Havana Segrand (Julianne Moore), who is beset by the ghost of her legendary mother, Clarice (Sarah Gadon). But Agatha is on a quest for redemption – and even in this realm of the artificial, and the unearthly, she’s determined to find it, no matter what it takes.

Director: David CronenbergCountry: CanadaGenre: DramaYear: 2015Run Time: 01:51:58imdb Score: 6.4/10 (11,890 votes)Language: EnglishRating: RCast: Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, John Cusack”There’s so much in this seething cauldron of a film, so many film-industry neuroses exposed and horrors nested within horrors, that one viewing is too much, and not nearly enough. Cronenberg has made a film that you want to unsee – and then see and unsee again. “

Robbie Collin – THE TELEGRAPH

“If the research that Cronenberg and Wagner engaged in for Maps to the Stars oftentimes appears more entomological than sociological, there’s nonetheless a plaintive chord of melancholy that plays throughout the film. “

Budd Wilkins – SLANT MAGAZINE

“A brutal, crackling and savage Hollywood satire Maps to the Stars knows exactly where it’s going, carefully breaking every rule in the book. After carefully constructing his crystal kingdom, Cronenberg launches his stones with dark, mischievous joy. “

John Bleasdale – CINEVUE

AWARDS

International Cinephile Society Awards 2014
Best Actress

Cannes Film Festival 2014
Best Actress

Catalonian Int’l Film Festival 2014
Best Actress

FESTIVALS

New Zealand Int’l Film Festival 2014

Toronto Int’l Film Festival 2014

Baltic Pearl Film Festival 2014

Rio de Janeiro Int’l Film Festival 2014

Cinefest Sudbury Int’l Film Festival 2014

New York Film Festival 2014

Vancouver Int’l Film Festival 2014

Busan Int’l Film Festival 2014

Warsaw Film Festival 2014

Morelia Film Festival 2014

Canberra Int’l Film Festival 2014

Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival 2014

Stockholm Int’l Film Festival 2014

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SHOWS DO SELL OUT!!!  Living Room Theater has small rooms with assigned seats.  It is in your best interest to buy your tickets ahead of time at the Living Room Theater website.  There is a $1 surcharge to buy tickets online.  http://pdx.livingroomtheaters.com/index.cfm