"PS" screening immediately followed by Q&A with Laura Linney and Topher Grace

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Los Angeles

"PS" screening immediately followed by Q&A with Laura Linney and Topher Grace

Tuesday, October 19, 2004

Begins at 3:00 PM PDT

Monday, October 18, 2004



p.s. Director's Statement

From Aristotle to Joseph Campbell to Robert McKee, everyone's in agreement: you can't have drama without obstacles. A heroine, to deserve the title, must overcome obstacles in order to achieve her goal. If her goal is to find love, custom dictates that the entire universe must come between the heroine and her love object, sometimes in the forms of icebergs, environmental disasters, or the Civil War. . .

The idea behind p.s. was to tell a story where nothing stands between the heroine and her love object. Even more: in this story, the universe works with the heroine, dumping the love object on her doorstep time after time! Is it possible that the only obstacle this heroine needs to overcome is herself?

-Dylan Kidd
July, 2004

LAURA LINNEY (Louise Harrington)

Few actresses in the entertainment world today have made as lasting an impression as Laura Linney has on Hollywood. Laura earned an Academy Award nomination for her starring role as Sammy Prescott in Kenneth Lonergan's You Can Count On Me. In addition, this role garnered her nominations for a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Golden Globe Award and an Independent Spirit Award. She was awarded Best Actress by the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics.

She was most recently seen starring in the ensemble romantic comedy Love Actually, written and directed by Richard Curtis. Just prior, she was seen in Mystic River, directed by Clint Eastwood and earned a Best Supporting Actress in a Drama by The British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Laura can currently be seen in Sight Unseen on Broadway, the same play she did 12 years ago.

This spring, Laura returned to television to appear in the NBC hit comedy Frasier. She starred in four episodes as Dr. Frasier Crane's love interest, Charlotte. The critically acclaimed film, The Truman Show, directed by Peter Weir, gave Laura a chance to shine brightly as she co-starred opposite Jim Carrey.

Her motion picture debut was also her first starring film role