SCREENING
Far and Away
Saturday, Aug 17 at 4:45 p.m.
Sunday, Aug 18 at 2:45 p.m.
Location: Redstone Theater
Part of See It Big: 70mm (2024)
Director Ron Howard will appear in person to introduce the screening on Saturday, August 10!
Dir. Ron Howard. 1992, 140 mins. U.S. 70mm. With Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Thomas Gibson, Robert Prosky, Barbara Babcock, Clint Howard. Howard’s rollicking widescreen melodrama about Irish immigrants pursuing fortune and glory in late-nineteenth-century America gave newlyweds Cruise and Kidman a pair of juicy dramatic roles and a procession of dazzling landscape backdrops. Cruise pours his blood and sweat into the role of Joseph Donnelly, a tenant farmer who falls for Kidman’s Shannon Christie, the daughter of a cruel landlord; the two run away together to the “New World,” only to battle poverty amidst Boston’s bare-knuckle backrooms and burlesque halls. Far and Away was the first Hollywood film shot on 70mm in a decade, the perfect format for its glamorous stars’ journey from lush Irish hillsides to brawling Boston to the Ozarks and finally the thrilling Oklahoma Land Rush, featuring a score by John Williams and cinematography by Mikael Salomon (The Abyss).
Tickets: $20 / $15 for MoMI members. There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases. The cost of admission may be applied toward a same-day purchase of a membership.
Order tickets. Please pick up tickets at the Museum’s admissions desk upon arrival. All seating is general admission.