Who’ll Stop the Rain
The Sunday screening will be introduced by Lindsay Duncan and Hilton McRae, on stage with Karel Reisz’s son Matthew.
About Who’ll Stop the Rain:
This gripping, action-intensive and thought-provoking film focuses on the drama and desperation of drug smuggling and heroin addiction and stars Nick Nolte and Tuesday Weld.
About Lindsay Duncan:
Lindsay Duncan’s work in theatre includes Hansard, The Homecoming, Berenice, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Evening Standard Award), The Prince of Hamburg and Plenty at the National Theatre; A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Les Liaisons Dangereuses (also West End and Broadway; Olivier Award and Theatre World Award), The Merry Wives of Windsor and Troilus and Cressida for the RSC and the Barbican; Hedda Gabler of Hampstead; Julius Caesar at Riverside Studios; The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (also Roundhouse), The Rivals, Zack, Twelfth Night, What the Butler Saw, The Skin of Our Teeth and Present Laughter at the Royal Exchange, Manchester; Progress at the Bush; Mouth to Mouth, That Face (both also West End) and Top Girls (also The Public, New York) at the Royal Court; Celebration / The Room at the Almedio; Ashes to Ashes at the Gramercy, New York; Three Hotels at the Tricycle; Private Lives (also Broadway; Olivier Award, Tony Award and Critics Circle Theatre Award), Hay Fever and The Cryptogram in the West End; and A Delicate Balance on Broadway. TV includes Truelove, The Morning Show, Around the World in 80 Days, The Wheel of Time, A Discovery of Witches, The Leftovers, Shooting the Past, Close to the Enemy, The Honourable Woman, Sherlock, Doctor Who, Black Mirror: The National Anthem, Absolutely Fabulous, Richard II, Margaret, Lost in Austen, Rome, Perfect Strangers, GBH and Traffik. Film includes Blackbird, Le Weekend, Gifted, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Birdman, About Time, Alice in Wonderland, Starter for Ten, Afterlife, Under the Tuscan Sun and Mansfield Park.
About Hilton McRae:
Theatre includes:
In the West End: 1984, End of the Rainbow (Nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor), Rabbit, My One and Only, Mamma Mia, Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, Piaf, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (WE/Broadway).
Other Theatre includes: Local Hero (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Dance of Death (Bath/Arcola), The Shadow Factory (Nuffield Theatre), Uncle Vanya (Almeida), The Cocktail Party (Print Room), The Kreutzer Sonata (The Gate/La MaMa New York), Timon of Athens, Caroline Or Change (National Theatre), The Danton Affair, Troilus and Cressida, As You Like It, Total Eclipse, Much Ado About Nothing, The Innocent, Anthony and Cleopatra, Captain Swing, The Churchill Play, The Merchant of Venice, Factory Birds and Bandits (RSC), The Shadow Factory (Southampton Nuffield), Experimentum Mundi (Edinburgh International Festival), The Oresteia Trilogy (Fisher Centre, New York), Rock ‘n’ Roll (Manchester Library), The Wizard of Oz (Royal Festival Hall), Weapons of Happiness (Finborough), Hamlet (Royal Theatre Northampton), The Tempest (Southwark Playhouse), Peer Gynt (Arcola), The Front Page (Donmar), Othello & A Doll’s House (Birmingham Rep), Hedda Gabler (Manchester Royal Exchange), Macbeth (Dundee Rep), LayOff/Yobbo Nowt (7:84).
Film includes: A Private War, Darkest Hour, Denial, The Sense of an Ending, Macbeth, Far From the Madding Crowd, Mansfield Park, Return of the Jedi, Secret Rapture, Greystoke, The French Lieutenant’s Woman.
Television includes: Halo, The Third Day, Chernobyl, Victoria, Endeavour, New Tricks, Injustice, Zen, Red Riding Trilogy – 1983, The Execution of Gary Glitter, Lewis, Frances Tuesday, Murder City, Baby Father, Serious & Organised, Deacon Brodie, King of Hearts, First Take, To Each His Own, Roll Over Beethoven, Poppyland, Forever Young.
About Who’ll Stop the Rain:
This gripping, action-intensive and thought-provoking film focuses on the drama and desperation of drug smuggling and heroin addiction and stars Nick Nolte and Tuesday Weld.
About Lindsay Duncan:
Lindsay Duncan’s work in theatre includes Hansard, The Homecoming, Berenice, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Evening Standard Award), The Prince of Hamburg and Plenty at the National Theatre; A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Les Liaisons Dangereuses (also West End and Broadway; Olivier Award and Theatre World Award), The Merry Wives of Windsor and Troilus and Cressida for the RSC and the Barbican; Hedda Gabler of Hampstead; Julius Caesar at Riverside Studios; The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (also Roundhouse), The Rivals, Zack, Twelfth Night, What the Butler Saw, The Skin of Our Teeth and Present Laughter at the Royal Exchange, Manchester; Progress at the Bush; Mouth to Mouth, That Face (both also West End) and Top Girls (also The Public, New York) at the Royal Court; Celebration / The Room at the Almedio; Ashes to Ashes at the Gramercy, New York; Three Hotels at the Tricycle; Private Lives (also Broadway; Olivier Award, Tony Award and Critics Circle Theatre Award), Hay Fever and The Cryptogram in the West End; and A Delicate Balance on Broadway. TV includes Truelove, The Morning Show, Around the World in 80 Days, The Wheel of Time, A Discovery of Witches, The Leftovers, Shooting the Past, Close to the Enemy, The Honourable Woman, Sherlock, Doctor Who, Black Mirror: The National Anthem, Absolutely Fabulous, Richard II, Margaret, Lost in Austen, Rome, Perfect Strangers, GBH and Traffik. Film includes Blackbird, Le Weekend, Gifted, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Birdman, About Time, Alice in Wonderland, Starter for Ten, Afterlife, Under the Tuscan Sun and Mansfield Park.
About Hilton McRae:
Theatre includes:
In the West End: 1984, End of the Rainbow (Nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor), Rabbit, My One and Only, Mamma Mia, Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, Piaf, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (WE/Broadway).
Other Theatre includes: Local Hero (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Dance of Death (Bath/Arcola), The Shadow Factory (Nuffield Theatre), Uncle Vanya (Almeida), The Cocktail Party (Print Room), The Kreutzer Sonata (The Gate/La MaMa New York), Timon of Athens, Caroline Or Change (National Theatre), The Danton Affair, Troilus and Cressida, As You Like It, Total Eclipse, Much Ado About Nothing, The Innocent, Anthony and Cleopatra, Captain Swing, The Churchill Play, The Merchant of Venice, Factory Birds and Bandits (RSC), The Shadow Factory (Southampton Nuffield), Experimentum Mundi (Edinburgh International Festival), The Oresteia Trilogy (Fisher Centre, New York), Rock ‘n’ Roll (Manchester Library), The Wizard of Oz (Royal Festival Hall), Weapons of Happiness (Finborough), Hamlet (Royal Theatre Northampton), The Tempest (Southwark Playhouse), Peer Gynt (Arcola), The Front Page (Donmar), Othello & A Doll’s House (Birmingham Rep), Hedda Gabler (Manchester Royal Exchange), Macbeth (Dundee Rep), LayOff/Yobbo Nowt (7:84).
Film includes: A Private War, Darkest Hour, Denial, The Sense of an Ending, Macbeth, Far From the Madding Crowd, Mansfield Park, Return of the Jedi, Secret Rapture, Greystoke, The French Lieutenant’s Woman.
Television includes: Halo, The Third Day, Chernobyl, Victoria, Endeavour, New Tricks, Injustice, Zen, Red Riding Trilogy – 1983, The Execution of Gary Glitter, Lewis, Frances Tuesday, Murder City, Baby Father, Serious & Organised, Deacon Brodie, King of Hearts, First Take, To Each His Own, Roll Over Beethoven, Poppyland, Forever Young.
Cast
Nick Nolte • Tuesday Weld
Director
Karel Reisz
Running Time
127 minutes