Director James Adolphus attending.
Star Tribune Reception Celebrating Cue the String - a film about Low & Being Mary Tyler Moore
Saturday, April 22 • 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Pracna Bar • 117 SE Main Street, Minneapolis
Join Star Tribune for a double feature on Saturday, April 22! Following the screening of Cue the Strings - a film about Low and before Being Mary Tyler Moore, mix and mingle with Star Tribune writers Jon Bream and Neal Justin, and Director Phil Harder (Cue the Strings) and Director James Adolphus (Being Mary Tyler Moore).
With unprecedented access to the Mary Tyler Moore Estate, friends, family, and colleagues, Being Mary Tyler Moore constructs an intimate mosaic of Mary's sixty-year career in show business and is a must-see for Minnesotans and fans of the long-running TV show.
From her start on The Dick Van Dyke Show to her groundbreaking, feminist The Mary Tyler Moore Show, to her star-turn in Ordinary People, which resulted in an Oscar nomination, the film reveals a profoundly complex talent who was full of compassion, empathy, and inspirational abilities despite dealing with enormous personal loss and battling inner demons. An intimate cinematic portrait of one of America’s most beloved and indelible icons.
Director Biography
James Adolphus is an Emmy Award-winning director, two-time Emmy Award-winning producer, and three-time Peabody Award-winning cinematographer, he directed the short film “The Warren” (2014) and for television Little White Lie (2014), You Ain’t Got These (2020) and Soul of a Nation (2021).