After her granddaughter, Sage (Julia Garner), has confided to her that she needs an abortion, Elle (Lily Tomlin) cuts right to the heart of the issue. Not the politics, mind you. Nor the question of how a modern teenager like Sage, someone with plenty of birth-control options, found herself in this position. Elle says the… Read More »
AMERICAN DREAMZ
Click here to listen to the interview with Paul Weitz (8:06).The carefully orchestrated public persona of politics and the carefully orchestrated “reality” of reality television come in for a timely comparison in Paul Weitz’s AMERICAN DREAMZ. Nothing and no one is off limits in this barely veiled shot at pop culture, world politics, and the allure… Read More »
AMERICAN DREAMZ — DVD
Click here to listen to the interview with Paul Weitz (8:04)Click here to listen to the interview with Paul and Chris Weitz for ABOUT A BOY (20:36)AMERICAN DREAMZ did not perform as well as it should have when it was released. Perhaps it cut too close to the bone as it turned reality television inside… Read More »