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Essential Arthouse: THE DAYTRIPPERS (1996)

Essential Arthouse: THE DAYTRIPPERS (1996)

December, 21 2022 | 7:00 pm

305 South Campbell Avenue Springfield, Missouri 65806
https://www.moxiecinema.com/films/the-daytrippers-1996


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With its droll humor and bittersweet emotional heft, the feature debut of writer-director Greg Mottola announced the arrival of an unassumingly sharp-witted new talent on the 1990s indie film scene. When she discovers a love letter written to her husband (Stanley Tucci) by an unknown paramour, the distraught Eliza (Hope Davis) turns to her tight-knit Long Island family for advice. Soon the entire clan—strong-willed mom (Anne Meara), taciturn dad (Pat McNamara), and jaded sister (Parker Posey) with pretentious boyfriend (Liev Schreiber) in tow—has squeezed into a station wagon and headed into Manhattan to find out the truth, kicking off a one-crazy-day odyssey full of unexpected detours and life-changing revelations. Performed with deadpan virtuosity by a top-flight ensemble cast, The Daytrippers is a wry and piercing look at family bonds stretched to the breaking point.

Starring: Campbell Scott, Hope Davis, Liev Schreiber, Parker Posey, Stanley Tucci
Director: Greg Mottola
Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

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