'Like the rest of us in 2020, film director Michael Glover Smith found his carefully laid plans laid to waste by a microscopic agent of chaos and destruction.' | SullivanCatey
In the face of delay upon delay, Smith took to walking his Rogers Park neighborhood, pacing past the turreted, Wedgewood-blue, 1893 Victorian home that had inspired, his fourth film, the one he thought he’d be filming as months of COVID-19 holdups stretched into over a year.
“This whole story started with that house. I first saw it on my walks, before COVID,” he recalls. “It made me think about families, and telling a story that was multigenerational, everyone under one roof,” Smith said. The Victorian—once supposedly owned by Newgard Avenue’s namesake—serves as the setting for most of, which makes its Chicago debut April 5 at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
Wendy Robie and Francis Guinan play David and Karen Frank, activists in the late 60s, now a matriarch and patriarch in their 60s. Their Rogers Park home is the setting for a graduation celebration for son Benji , a setup that facilitates having the four adult Frank children back in the family house together, enough baggage and unfinished business among them to fuel a drama.
There is also Evonne , newly separated from her wife Lucia and heartbroken over it. Norma , meanwhile, has been living in suburban Iowa with her own family but arrives in Rogers Park without any of them, looking pensive indeed. There are memorable turns by Heather Chrisler as Benji’s ex , and Elizabeth Stam as Hekla, an assertive, confident, unflappably charming college junior from Iceland.
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