Anthony Rapp Set for Q&A at 92YTribeca Tonight

Cast member Anthony Rapp joins the 92YTribeca audience live for this 1987 comedy that strands rubes from the 'burbs in the big city. Chris Columbus' directorial debut features Elisabeth Shue as a babysitter whose emergency errand into Chicago leads her and her young charges to an outrageous all-night fiasco, featuring run-ins with menacing car thieves and shank-wielding gang members, plus a stop at a dive where "no one leaves without singing the blues." A kind of flipside to Ferris Bueller's Day Off, this is perhaps the lone Hughes-era teen comedy to pluck the kids out of suburbia only to pit them against their paranoid nightmares of the inner city.

Rapp will both introduce the film and be part of a Q&A after the screening.

Basic Cable Classics is a new series that pays tribute to the art of lowbrow cinema from the past 30 years. Each screening in the series includes two films united by their respect for genre entertainment as an artform, their propensity for indifference by the critics and the unavoidable fact that they're fun to watch slightly intoxicated. This month we revisit the early work of Elisabeth Shue in "A PAIR OF SHUE" with Adventures in Babysitting and Cocktail.

92YTribeca is 92nd Street Y's downtown arts and culture venue in New York City. Opened in October 2008, 92YTribeca presents music, comedy, film, theater, talks, classes, family events, and Jewish community and holiday programs in a versatile, street-level, modern space at 200 Hudson Street. In addition to the mainstage and screening room, the venue houses an art gallery, lounge, bar, café, seminar and meeting rooms, and free Wi-Fi around the space. With programs developed by a professional curatorial team in partnership with staff, local artists and arts organizations, new-media companies, fellow presenters, and community and cause-based organizations, 92YTribeca aims to engage a diverse community of young people from around the New York area with smart, relevant programming that encourages participation and conversation. For more information, visit www.92YTribeca.org.

 

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