Viewing: June 11,2025
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Director: Ryan Murphy
Cast: Annette Benning, Brian Cox, Joseph Cross,
Awards: GLAAD Award: Outstanding Film - Wide Release (nom)
Join us Wednesday, June 11th at 7:00 p.m. as our Rainbow Connections Pride Series continues with a “pointed” comedy-drama based on Augusten Burroughs’ best-selling memoir!
Admission is FREE – Tickets are required
Specialty Cocktail: TBD
About the film
It’s the 1970’s and teenager Augusten is surrounded by eccentricity: from his alcoholic father to his moody, aspiring-poet mother and her oddball psychiatrist…the young man is at a loss for a solid role model during one of the most important formative periods in life. When his mother arranges for her shrink to become his legal guardian, Augusten finds himself in a new household where the eccentricity rises to new levels. Amid all the absurdity of his new surroundings, he befriends the doctor’s daughter, confesses to her that he is gay, and eventually strikes up a sexual relationship with the doctor’s middle-aged adopted son. Sound like the kind of story that’d make a good book..? Well, as it turns out, Augusten eventually leaves for the big city to put his life into words.
Written and directed by Ryan Murphy (Nip/Tuck, Glee, American Horror Story), this adaptation of Burroughs’ successful book features a fantastic supporting cast that includes Alec Baldwin, Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, and Evan Rachel Wood.
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