Night Owl Cinema
TOMMY
Friday, January 23rd at 9:30 PM
$18 Public | $11 Members
Director Ken Russell, at the peak of
his eccentric excess in the mid-1970s, was the perfect choice to bring the
Who’s rock opera to the screen. The Who’s
own Roger Daltrey stars as Tommy,
the “deaf, dumb and blind kid,” who, after witnessing his father’s murder as a
child, retreats into his own interior world. Desperate for a cure, his mother (Ann-Margret) and stepfather (Oliver Reed) take him to, in turn, the
Seeker (Eric Clapton), the Acid
Queen (Tina Turner) and an
experimental doctor, the Specialist (Jack
Nicholson). But it is only when Tommy competes against and bests the
Pinball Wizard (Elton John) that he
makes progress — so much so, in fact, that he is declared a messiah and becomes
the leader of a religious sect. (UK,
1975, 111 mins, PG, English | Dir. Ken Russell)
