[Grad_history_students] Upcoming Film

[Judy Ossello]

JAY CRAVEN'S 60's FILM DRAMA TO PLAY AT GENE SISKEL FILM CENTER, 
CHICAGO, IL

Independent filmmaker Jay Craven's new award-winning film, "The Year 
That Trembled," will be at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 North State Street, 
Chicago. Craven will introduce the show and lead a post-film Q&A on 
Friday, November 7th at 8pm and Saturday, November 8th at 3:00pm & 
7:15pm. Tickets are $8 general admission, & $4 members. For additional 
show timesand theater information please call:312-846-2600.

Based on the screenplay by Craven, from the novel by Scott Lax, "The 
Year That Trembled" is a 1970 coming-of-age story, set on the American 
"homefront" during the Vietnam War. Three teenagers, fresh out of high 
school and fearful of the impending draft lottery, experience a year 
that transforms their lives. They find themselves caught up in the 
anti-war upheaval at Kent State following a guerilla theater action. 
Later, they meet a young college activist who takes refuge at their 
summer farmhouse, hoping to sidestep an FBI investigation triggered by 
the Kent shootings. Next door, a young couple also struggle over 
war-related complications. She loses her high school teaching job. He 
launches a civil suit on behalf of the Kent State victims and struggles 
to decide about military service as he tries to follow in the footsteps 
of Bobby Kennedy. Confronted by the challenges of the War and the 
complexities of the counter-culture, no one emerges unscathed. Choices 
are made; emotional boundaries are transgressed; and innocence is lost.