The Hendersonville Film Society will show 1776 Sunday, July 5, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas), 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.
1776
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In Brief: High on the list of "For people who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they will like" is Peter H. Hunt's 1776. I freely admit I am not among their number. I watched 1776 once, after years of having avoided it, thanks to a high school classmate who thought "For God's sake, open a window" was the funniest lyric ever — on TCM (whether it was the full 166 minute version I don't know). I made a valiant attempt to tackle it again for this screening, but I gave it up — something I rarely do. This is essentially canned musical theater — and with the typical tendency to be overlit — no matter how many zoom shots it's tricked out with. I concede that Howard Da Silva makes an excellent Benjamin Franklin, but beyond that... I'm sure this is fine for its audience, but this is so not for me that I think it's not even remotely possible for me to critique it. When you're cringing in the first 10 minutes, it's probably time to admit to your limitations.
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| Genre: | Musical |
| Director: | Peter H. Hunt |
| Starring: | William Daniels, Howard Da Silva, Ken Howard, Donald Madden, John Cullum |
| Rated: | G |
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