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CHICAGO – Excelsior! Comic book legend Stan Lee’s famous exclamation puts a fine point on the third and final play of Mark Pracht’s FOUR COLOR TRILOGY, “The House of Ideas,” presented by and staged at City Lit Theater in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood. For tickets/details, click HOUSE OF IDEAS.
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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What’s your Sept. 11, 2001 story?
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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 |
Sep. 11th Story
I Was watching the news before school started, my mom was a subscriber to Dish Network and had news channels for New York. Anyways, I remember eating cereal and watching one the local news stations there I think ABC.
One of the news anchors had said that a plane had crashed into a building but didn’t mention which one until later. They thought it was an accident at the time until the second one came out of nowhere and crashed into the second twin tower. That’s one they mention it was terrorist related.
My aunt was living there at the time in New Jersey, but I had called to make sure she was alright. I didn’t hear from her until a three days later.
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I was heading towards Down
I was heading towards Down town.
I cancelled my appointment and watched
Everything from tv it Was like watching a
horror film.
9/11 story
I remember waking up to my friends phone call to turn on the news. All day we sat in her apartment watching the events unfold. I will never forget that day and believe we should be reminded daily how vulnerable our country truly is.
What’s your Sept. 11, 2001 story?
My September 11 story is that I am still alive and ticking. I feel lucky that this catastrophe avoided me and realize that I must cherish every moment in life and appreciate the fact that at a moment’s notice it can be all gone.
9/11
At first I thought some idiot ran into a building with a plane and then it happened again. I immediately grabbed my son so he couldn’t got to school and called into work but everyone was already gone from my job downtown. Scariest day of my life…
5th Grade
I was in 5th grade and was in school. My teacher turned on the TV and let us watch the news a little until the administration made him turn it off.
september 11 story
I remember it being very quiet. I live by the airport. Eerie quiet.
Good bye innocence!
i learned about good and evil - like never before.
September 11th
I was in high school taking an exam in my AP History Class when my teacher came back crying and looked like she had just seen a ghost.