Weekend Highlights for L.A. International Film Festival
The American Film Institute Los Angeles International Film Festival continues at the Cineplex Odeon Century Plaza Cinemas this weekend. Highlights from today’s and Sunday’s program follow.
TODAY
‘Bum Rap’
United States, 1988, 113 minutes 8 p.m.
Writer-director Daniel Irom strings together cliches in this supposedly bittersweet comedy about a man who discovers he has exactly three days to live. As an aspiring actor and New York cab driver, Craig Wasson struggles valiantly to make something out of the hokey speeches he’s given, but it’s a hopeless cause.
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