ARMAGEDDON TIME
Queens, New York. The 1980s. Twelve-year-old Paul Graff is growing up in a warm and rowdy family that includes his grandfather, who encourages his artistic aspirations. His best friend is John Crocker, an African-American boy. The two are inseparable and prone to mischief, but after an incident in which John and Paul share “tea that makes you laugh”, Paul’s parents decide to transfer him to the private prep school his older brother Ted attends. Here, the student body is almost exclusively white, privileged – and prejudiced. Together, the boys concoct a risky scheme to escape their lives and run away to Florida…
James Gray (1969) is an American film director and screenwriter. As a child growing up in Queens, New York, Gray aspired to be a painter. However, when introduced in his early teenage years to the works of various filmmakers, including Francis Ford Coppola, Gray’s interests expanded to the art of filmmaking. Since his feature debut Little Odessa, the winner of the Venice Film Festival’s prestigious Silver Lion Award in 1994, he has made seven other features, five of which competed for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Cannes Film Festival 202
ARMAGEDDON TIME (fic.)
Director: James Gray
Country: United States, Brazil
Year: 2022.
Runtime: 115’
Language: English
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, Banks Repeta
Production: Focus Features, Keep Your Head, Mad River Pictures
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