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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 50 Pairs of Passes to ‘Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close’ With Tom Hanks
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on January 13, 2012 - 1:31am
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The movie poster for “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” with Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock.
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Winners need to arrive early as seats are consumed on a first-come, first-served basis. Since advance screenings are overbooked to ensure a full house, winners are not guaranteed entrance and must arrive early. We recommend arriving 45 minutes before the screening’s scheduled start time. Winners are typically e-mailed our advance-screening passes two days before the screening date. HollywoodChicago.com LLC is a promotional partner with the studio and its partners and doesn’t assume any liability for this giveaway.
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CHICAGO – In our latest drama edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 admit-two movie passes up for grabs to the highly anticipated new film “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” starring Tom Hanks!
“Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” also stars Sandra Bullock, Thomas Horn, John Goodman, Jeffrey Wright, Viola Davis, Max von Sydow, Zoe Caldwell, Dennis Hearn, Paul Klementowicz, Julian Tepper, Caleb Reynolds, Stephen Henderson, Lorna Pruce and Hazelle Goodman from director Stephen Daldry (“The Hours,” “The Reader” and “Billy Elliot”), producer Scott Rudin, writer Eric Roth based on the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer.
To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This advance screening is on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2011 at 6 p.m. in downtown Chicago. Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and win can be found beneath the graphic below.
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Here is the synopsis for “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”:
Adapted from the acclaimed bestseller by Jonathan Safran Foer, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” is a story that unfolds from inside the young mind of Oskar Schell. He’s an inventive, 11-year-old New Yorker whose discovery of a key in his deceased father’s belongings sets him off on an urgent search across the city for the lock it will open.
A year after his father died in the World Trade Center on what Oskar calls “The Worst Day,” he is determined to keep his vital connection to the man who playfully cajoled him into confronting his wildest fears.
As Oskar crosses the five New York boroughs in quest of the missing lock – encountering an eclectic assortment of people who are survivors in their own way – he begins to uncover unseen links to the father he misses, the mother who seems so far away from him and the whole noisy, dangerous and discombobulating world around him.
The movie trailer for “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” can be watched now below.
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 | By ADAM FENDELMAN |
9/11
I was living in California at the time and was very lucky as my brother who lived in Manhattan was actually visiting me over that weekend, so he was spared the immediate horror and we were spared the dread of wondering if he was safe.
9.11
I just remember hearing about it, then going to work not thinking it was a terrorist attack. Once I got to the office, I heard of the second one hitting. We went out on a friends boat on Lake Michigan in Chicago to get out of the city and remember watching the fighter jets circling above the city. It was very eery. I went to NYC one month after and it was so surreal. Seeing shops trying to stay open while everything around them was covered in ash. Tanks in the streets, and cops on every corner. Nothing like the US has seen in a while.
I was on my way to work
I was on my way to work in florida.
9/11
I was with a friend of mine who turned on the TV…I remember thinking it was only a movie trailer then an accident but later on I saw horror beyond my imagination…
September 11, 2001
I was in 3rd grade and it was a normal class day. Until it had been announced through the intercom that one of the world trade center had been hit. I didn’t really understand the seriousness of this until I was picked up from school early and saw the television at home. Everyone was in disbelief, shocked and appalled. Once the second plane hit, America was under attack. Everyone was in panic.
I was in my apartment cuz I
I was in my apartment cuz I had the day off work and I was glued to the TV for like 30hrs straight. I cried a lot.
I just remember waking up to
I just remember waking up to the horror…the day was a blur. Didn’t go to work because I was afraid.
What’s your Sept. 11, 2001 story?
I thought CNN was hacked when I was in Puerto Rico university library, I saw on the first page an airplane crashing against one of the towers.
My September 11th Story
I was in 7th grade and I was very excited because a bunch of fun things lined up for that day. It was a Tuesday, so I would be going to an “enrichment” class that got me out of other classes and I was going to stay after school to watch the soccer game. But, instead, we sat in our homeroom classes all day and watched the tv. The game was canceled and everyone was talking about the planes.
What's My 9-11-2001 story?
DC conference .5 miles from ground zero. No cell phones, no traffic lights, and gridlock. What a day.