Closing Night Film “The Walker”
Saturday, October 20
8:15 PM • Lincoln Theatre • $40

East Coast Premiere

View photos from both The Walker screening and the party.

Featuring an all-star cast including Woody Harrelson, Lily Tomlin, Kristin Scott Thomas, Mary Beth Hurt, and Lauren Bacall, The Walker is a political thriller containing the back-stabbing, political infighting and dry wit only a DC setting can provide. Gay, southern-bred, and genteel to a fault, Carter Page III (Harrelson) is a walker, a contemporary throwback to a bygone era when gay men accompanied their lady friends to various benefits and high-society functions. These ladies’ husbands, busy in their Senate and Congressional offices, have no desire to bother themselves with such high culture, which means that Carter has a steady stream of night-time engagements. During the day, Page and his lady friends play canasta while cattily dishing on the gossip of the night before. Soon, idle gossip turns to outright scandal as Lynn, the wife of a liberal senator, discovers the dead body of her lover. Determined to keep their affair secret (from her husband AND his constituents) she turns to Carter for help. In order to protect Lynn, Carter claims that he found the corpse. His friendly gesture brings down an avalanche of accusations from arch-conservative state attorney Mungo Tenant, who vengefully pins the murder on Carter. Suddenly, Carter’s languid life of lunching with the ladies and shopping for upholstery becomes a web of intrigue, allegations and rumor. The good-natured Senator’s son, who had always dubbed himself superficial and the black sheep of the family, finds himself obliged to take on the good fight—more so when his friends—fearing the ever-widening scandal, begin to close their doors to him. Carter and his boyfriend Emek have to make use of all their contacts in order to find out who is behind the mystery of the dead man.

Dir. Paul Schrader, USA, 2007, 107 Mins.

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Closing Night Party
Saturday, Oct. 20  •  10 p.m.-midnight
Nellie’s Sports Bar, 900 U St. NW
Head over to Nellie’s after our closing night film, The Walker, as we celebrate the end of another successful Reel Affirmations. Join us for a Moet Champagne toast as we announce our award winners, including the winner of our Plant A Seed grant.
Cocktails courtesy of Diageo, the Official Alcohol Sponsor of Reel Affirmations 17.

Tickets also available…

• BY PHONE:       1.800.494.TIXS

• IN PERSON:
Lincoln Theatre
1215 U. Street NW
202.328.6000
Lincoln Theatre Passes and individual tickets for all Lincoln Theatre screenings

Goethe Institut
814 7th St. NW
202.289.1200
Tickets for Goethe documentary screenings

Landmark’s
E Street Cinema
555 11 Street, NW
202.452.7672
Individual tickets to all
E Street Cinema screenings

Lambda Rising Bookstore
1625 Connecticut Ave.,NW
202.462.6969
available: Festival Passes

Universal Gear
1601 17th St. NW
202.319.1157
Festival Passes and individual tickets