THEY'RE TOO OLD TO PLAY "DOCTOR" AND TOO YOUNG TO DO ANYTHING ELSE.

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Franny Phillips (Trini Alvarado, TIMES SQUARE) and Jamie Harris (Jeremy Levy) are precocious 12-year-old best friends navigating their coming of age, and the divorces of their respective narcissistic hipster parents (one of whom is a young John Lithgow), on the Upper West Side circa 1979.

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Directed by Robert M. Young (SHORT EYES, EXTREMITIES) and produced by none other than Robert Altman (and it is so very Altman) 1979’s “Rich Kids” is a tender, sweet, sharply funny, slice-of-life late-70s-New-York-time-capsule featuring beautifully natural pre-teen acting, raging hormones, domestic drama, McDonalds, and the greatest jungle-themed 70s divorced dad apartment ever committed to celluloid. Grown-ups suck!

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"a stylish, affectionate look at the great American institution of divorce among the affluent ... Twelve-year-old Trini Alvarado and 14-year-old Jeremy Levy are very appealing and directed well by Young: their half-forlorn, half-cynical sagacity is funny and touching, and their friendship, with its tentative sexuality, is the realest relationship in the movie." -  Jack Kroll, Newsweek

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The first installment in a seasonal screening series titled “SUMMER SCHOOL”, presented by Lily Noise, featuring films that tackle adolescence in-and-around K-12 school settings. Don’t miss the bus! This summer, we’re going back to school.

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dir. Robert M. Young, 1979
United States, digital projection
101 mins

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7:30 DOORS
8:00 SCREENING