Moving Trailer For ARMAGEDDON TIME Starring Anthony Hopkins, Anne Hathaway, and Jeremy Strong
Focus Features has released a trailer for its upcoming drama Armageddon Time. This looks like a moving film that will involve some heavy subject matter involving racism and splitting two good friends apart. The movie comes from director James Gray (The Lost City of Z, Ad Astra), and it’s a partially autobiographical story.
The movie is set in Queens in the 1980s and it centers on the life of a Jewish family. It’s explained that this is “a deeply personal story on the strength of family, the complexity of friendship and the generational pursuit of the American Dream.”
Deadline offered the following insight: “Gray’s film is set in Queens and explores a two- to three-month window where Gray, given the fictional name Paul Graff, is 12 years old and attending public school, where he and Johnny bond after being repeatedly picked on by a mean-minded teacher, though both suffer, in varying degrees, from ADHD. Later, Graff’s parents sent him to Kew-Forest, a private school that then a haven for bigots, where students regularly used the N-word, and Fred Trump, father of former President Donald Trump, was on the school’s board of trustees.”
The film features an all-star cast that includes Anthony Hopkins, Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, Banks Repeta, Jaylin Webb, Tovah Feldshuh, and Ryan Sell.
Armageddon Time opens in theaters on October 28th.
