A screening followed by a 1 hour career retrospective with Vanessa Redgrave.

Moderated by Richard Ridge, Broadway World.

SYNOPSIS

Based on true events, FOXCATCHER tells the dark and fascinating story of the unlikely and ultimately tragic relationship between an eccentric multi-millionaire and two champion wrestlers.

Olympic Gold Medal-winning wrestler Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) is struggling in obscurity and poverty in Wisconsin when he is invited by wealthy heir John du Pont (Steve Carell) to move on to his lavish estate to form a team and to train for the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Schultz seizes the opportunity, eager to step out of the shadow of his revered older brother Dave (Mark Ruffalo), a prominent wrestling coach and Gold Medal winner himself.

With his vast financial resources and state-of-the-art training facility at Foxcatcher Farm, du Pont appoints himself head coach of the team, eager to win the respect of his peers and the approval of his condemning mother (Vanessa Redgrave).

The dynamic between Schultz and du Pont deepens as Mark embraces his benefactor as a father figure. But du Pont's mercurial personality and psychological gameplay begins to weigh heavily on Mark's shaky self-esteem, undermining his abilities on the mat. When du Pont's favoritism shifts to brother Dave — who possesses the authority and confidence both he and Mark lack — the trio is propelled towards a tragedy no one could have foreseen.
From Academy Award® nominee Bennett Miller (CAPOTE, MONEYBALL) comes a searing true-life account of three men grappling for their versions of the American Dream.


BIO

Called "the greatest actress of our time" by Tennessee Williams, Vanessa Redgrave comes from a legendary theatrical family. Her father, Sir Michael Redgrave, was one of Britain's most popular and respected actors. Her mother, Rachel Kempson, was a noted stage actress. Her sister, Lynn Redgrave, was also a film and stage actress and her brother, Corin Redgrave, was a successful stage director and actor. She made her professional debut in the play "A Touch of the Sun" (1957), in which she co-starred with her father. Although she appeared in her first film, BEHIND THE MASK, in 1958. she concentrated mostly on stage work throughout the 1950's and early 1960's. During the 1959-1960 season, she was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. Her film career began in earnest in 1966 and within the space of two years she appeared in four films that established her reputation as an intelligent actress with a commanding presence: Karel Reisz's MORGAN! (1966, Academy Award® nomination); Fred Zinneman's A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, Michelangelo Antonioni's BLOW-UP (1966); and Joshua Logan's CAMELOT (1967). Her performance as Guinevere in CAMELOT further secured her status as one of the most popular and respected actresses of the era. In the late 1960's and early 1970's Redgrave showed her mastery of both classical and commercial fare. In 1968 she appeared as Nina in Sidney Lumet's adaptation of Anton Chekhov's THE SEA GULL and as dancer Isadora Duncan in ISADORA, for which she won a National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress, a second Prize for the Best Female Performance at the Cannes film festival, as well as a Golden Globe and Oscar® nomination. In 1971 Redgrave took on the role of Andromache in THE TROJAN WOMAN and received her third Oscar® nomination for her work as the title character in MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS. In 1977 she won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in JULIA (1977.) During the following two decades, Redgrave eschewed popular, commercial films, for smaller films. In 1980 her controversial performance as a Nazi concentration camp victim in the television adaptation of Arthur Miller's "Playing for Time" won her an Emmy.

Redgrave received a fifth Oscar® nomination in 1985 for James Ivory's THE BOSTONIONS and her sixth in 1992 for her work as Mrs. Wilcox in HOWARDS END. Redgrave continued to garner accolades throughout the 1990's and 2000's. In 2000 her performance as a lesbian grieving the loss of her longtime partner in the HBO series "If These Walls Could Talk 2" earned her Golden Globe® Award and Emmy® Awards for Best Supporting Actress, as well as the Excellence in Media Award by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. In 2005, Redgrave joined the cast of the FX series "Nip/Tuck," in which she portrays Dr. Erica Noughton, the mother of Julia McNamara played by Joely Richardson, her real life daughter. In 2006, Redgrave starred opposite Peter O'Toole in Roger Michell's VENUS and a year later in the acclaimed films EVENING, directed by Lajos Koltai, and ATONEMENT, directed by Joe Wright, for which she garnered a Broadcast Film Critics Association award nomination for her performance despite it being only seven minutes. In 2010, Redgrave starred in Julian Schnabel's MIRAL and Gary Winick's LETTERS TO JULIET.

Her recent films include Ralph Fiennes' CORIOLANUS, Roland Emmerich's ANONYMOUS, UNFINISHED SONG, THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF ROSALIND LEE (title role), and LEE DANIELS' THE BUTLER.