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Four Lions
Thursday November 4, 2010 at 10:00pm
reRun
147 Front Street Mezzanine, Rear
Brooklyn, New York 11201 Get Directions
RUSH LINE ONLY!!! Show up early, some seats will be available.

FREE Sneak Preview, One Screening Only!

Winner, Best Narrative Feature, Los Angeles Film Festival 2010
Winner, Independent Camera Award, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2010
Grand Jury Prize Nominee, Sundance Film Festival
Closing Night Film, SXSW Film Festival 2010

Award-winning satirist Chris Morris' feature debut FOUR LIONS is a whip-smart, laugh-out-loud comedy that illuminates the war on terror through sophisticated farce. The film proves that while terrorism may be about ideology, it's also about idiots. Opening in NYC on November 5, the reRun Gastropub Theater is proud to present this FREE sneak preview of FOUR LIONS, with writer-director Chris Morris in person!

In a British city, four men have a secret plan. Omar (Riz Ahmed) is disillusioned about the treatment of Muslims around the world and is determined to become a soldier. This is the most exciting idea Waj (Kayvan Novak) has ever heard. Better still, it's a no brainer because Omar does his thinking for him. Opposed to Omar and everyone else on earth is the white Islamic convert Barry (Nigel Lindsay). He'd realize he joined the cell to channel his nihilism... if he had half the self-knowledge of a duck. Faisal (Adeel Akhtar) is the odd man out. He can make a bomb, but he can't blow himself up just now because his sick dad has "started eating newspaper." Instead, he's training crows to fly bombs through windows.

FOUR LIONS plunges us beyond seeing these young men as unfathomably alien. It undermines the folly of just wishing them away or, even worse, alienating the entire culture from which they emerge. The film is neither pro- nor anti-religious. The jokes fly out of the characters' conflicts, excesses and mistakes. Crackling with wit and tension, FOUR LIONS is the essential response to our failure to engage with reality and a high toast to the idea that laughter is better than killing.

97 minutes. In English. Presented in Blu-ray. Rated R. A Drafthouse Films release.
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