Fri:8:30PM
Escanaba in da Moonlight
(Jeff Daniels, 2000)
Bob Brown entered the feature film business in 1999 with co-founder/partner Jeff Daniels as Managing Partner and Executive Producer of their Michigan based company, Purple Rose Films. In 2000, the company produced its first feature film Escanaba in da Moonlight, a comedy shot in Escanaba, MI. Based on the films’s success (named by Variety magazine as one of the highest grossing independent films in 2001), Bob produced the documentary, A Picture from Home: The Making of Escanaba in da Moonlight, directed by Alison Crockett. Alison is a graduate student in the MTU Rhetoric and Technical Communication program. When the Soady clan reunites for the opening day of deer season at the family's Upper Peninsula camp, Reuben Soady must face the curse of being the oldest Soady in the history of the Soadys never to have bagged a buck. (91 min.)
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and Performing Arts, and Cin/Optic Media Enterprise.
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