Christopher Plummer Scores a Hit at the Festival
One of the most compelling performances I have seen thus far at the Seattle Film Festival is given by the multi-talented Christopher Plummer in The Man in the Chair.
The movie concerns a high school student who befriends bitter, retired filmmaker Flash Madden (Christopher Plummer) and enlists his aid in making a student film for a scholarship competition. Flash and a long-retired screenwriter, played by M. Emmet Walsh, must exorcise their own demons before becoming fully involved with the student project, a movie about neglect in nursing homes.
A story about youth, age, purpose and usefulness, Chair boldly compares neglected residents of nursing home with dogs waiting to be euthanized at the animal control shelter. The message here is a bit heavy-handed at times, but within the dramatic framework of the story it manages to work.
Plummer carries the film with his complex, moving performance, one director Michael Schroeder already predicts will generate Oscar buzz when Chair goes into limited release later this year. Robert Wagner (pictured with Plummer) costars.
A story about youth, age, purpose and usefulness, Chair boldly compares neglected residents of nursing home with dogs waiting to be euthanized at the animal control shelter. The message here is a bit heavy-handed at times, but within the dramatic framework of the story it manages to work.
Plummer carries the film with his complex, moving performance, one director Michael Schroeder already predicts will generate Oscar buzz when Chair goes into limited release later this year. Robert Wagner (pictured with Plummer) costars.
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