Adulthood

Friday, September 12: This film will be presented with open captions. Live captions will be provided for the live onstage components.

Saturday, September 13: This film will be presented with open captions, but please note, ASL interpretation will not be available for the live onstage elements of the screening.

Family ties are pushed to the limit in this devilishly comic neo-noir from actor-director Alex Winter. Starring Kaya Scodelario (The Maze Runner) and Josh Gad (Frozen), Adulthood follows a pair of adult siblings forced to cover their tracks after making a grisly discovery.

When their already ailing mother is hospitalized following a stroke, Meg (Scodelario) and Noah (Gad) decide it’s time to go through the decades’ worth of stuff that has amassed in their childhood home. That’s when they find something shocking behind the basement wall. With their mother incapacitated and their father having long since passed, Meg and Noah don’t know quite how it got there, but they know they need to make it disappear. Thus begins a bizarre, hilarious, twist-laden campaign to keep the past buried, one that involves a resentful nurse, an annoyingly inquisitive detective, and a long-estranged weird cousin with a predilection for swords.

From his legendary role in the Bill & Ted films to his prolific career helming documentaries such as Zappa, Winter has proven himself a versatile talent with a knack for sly, irreverent — not to mention gruesomely entertaining — stories. Adulthood, written by Michael M.B. Galvin, is as irreverent as they come. Meg and Noah never wanted any trouble, but one misguided deed has a way of prompting another, until there's blood on everyone's hands.