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Alan Hruska, director of Nola and The Warrior Class, returns with his new film, REUNION. The film concerns a group of smart and successful people, all members of a Yale secret society, who meet years after graduation to explore – and rationalize – who they have become.  As old wounds open and their dead friend’s secret is revealed, they learn the reality of the past and the reason love and happiness have eluded them.

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Casting the film

Highlights:

Writer and director Alan Hruska talks about his visions in casting the movie.  He tells the story of meeting Jessica Hecht, his excitement about working with Brett Cullen and Cynthia Stevenson and his relationships with Jamey Sheridan, David Thornton and Sam Coppola.

Happenings:

Three of the actors in Reunion worked with Hruska in prior films.  This ensemble cast was a dream come true for the director.  Although the process of casting took much time, patience and effort, it resulted in a spirited amalgam of talent.

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Alan Hruska, the writer-director of two independent films, Nola (Tribeca Film Festival, 2003) and The Warrior Class (Hamptons Film Festival 2005) was also the director of the recent off-Broadway production of Waiting for Godot, author of the novel, Borrowed Time (Dial Press, 1986), co-founder and chairman of the book publishing company, Soho Press, and a member of the Actors Studio, Playwrights and Directors Unit. 

The New York Times said Hruska’s Godot was “a pleasure to watch” and “Under Alan Hruska’s direction [Gogo and Didi] have the dynamic of an old married couple, comfortable and quarrelsome and mutually dependent.”  The New York Post said “just the right mixture of pathos and comic bluster,” “an admirable production that well serves the work’s brilliant combination of broad humor and existential despair.”

Soho Press has published the works of many prominent British authors, including Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Sue Townsend, Jake Arnott, Peter Lovesey and Judith Grossman.

 

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