A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING:
97 minutes
Friday, May 13 – 7 pm,
Saturday, May 14 – 4 & 8 pm,
Sunday, May 15 – 4 & 8 pm,
Wednesday, May 18 – 7 pm,
and Thursday, May 19 – 7 pm.
Cultures collide when an American businessman (Tom Hanks) is sent to Saudi Arabia to close what he hopes will be the deal of a lifetime. Baffled by local customs and stymied by an opaque bureaucracy, he eventually finds his footing with the help of a wise-cracking taxi driver (Alexander Black) and a beautiful Saudi doctor (Sarita Choudhury).
Insider’s tip: “. . . Tykwer’s film fluently conveys the hard truth of diminished relevance, geopolitical as well as personal. Hanks’ portrayal of a man caught between utter defeat and a yearning to begin again is pitch-perfect” (Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter). Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times adds: “For 30 years, Hanks has been delivering the goods, and he shows no signs of slowing down any time soon, and how grateful we are for that.” It’s difficult to find a bad movie with Tom Hanks in it, and you won’t find it here.