Event Details
Ira and Abby - Movie Screening
Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 4:30pm
Ojai Playhouse, 145 E. Ojai Ave., Ojai
Event Description
The Ojai Film Society presents a screening of the movie, Ira and Abby. Ira Black, 33, is brilliant, neurotic, and has so many issues he can’t fit them into 12 years of analysis. He can’t finish his dissertation, he can’t commit to his longtime girlfriend and he’s incapable of making a decision.
Abby Willoughby, 30, is a free spirit who's better at solving her friends’ problems than at her job selling memberships at the gym. When the two meet, the impossible happens: they fall in love, meet each other’s parents and decide to get married, all in a few breathless hours. And life is good, until Ira finds out that Abby is a divorcee... two times over. Despite even more therapy, Ira can’t help but feel that their marriage was built on a lie.
They divorce quietly, while cracks grow wider in their parents’ marriages. “Ira & Abby has plenty of sharp details, mostly verbal,” wrote the Chicago Tribune, “and it gives old pros and newer faces a chance to show off their poker-faced comic wiles.” Of course, Ira soon realizes he's miserable without Abby. He asks her forgiveness and they marry again, this time making more realistic vows.
But Ira’s jealousy issues and Abby’s free-floating tendencies lead him to reconnect with his ex-girlfriend. When Abby finds out about their parents’ infidelities, the three couples converge for a hilarious group therapy scene with the eight therapists we have met in the film.
Winner of the “Audience Award” at the Los Angeles Film Festival, this irresistible romantic comedy has been lauded as the best Manhattan love story since When Harry Met Sally.
Prices are:
$8 - General admission
$5 - Seniors 65+
$5 - Students (with ID)
FREE - OFS sponsors
- Sponsored By
Ojai Film Society
- More Information
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Phone: 805-646-8946
Web site: http://www.filmsociety.ojai.net/
