‘Armageddon Time’: Read The Screenplay For James Gray’s Personal Drama About Family And The Pursuit Of The American Dream
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Writer-director James Gray went back to the personal for Armageddon Time, the autobiographical story that pulls from Gray’s own upbringing in a multi-generational Jewish-American family in the Flushing, Queens neighborhood of New York City.
The Focus Features film confronts issues of race and class against the backdrop of Ronald Reagan’s impending election as president in 1980.
It had its world premiere in May at the Cannes Film Festival and hit theaters in late October. Succession star and Emmy winner Jeremy Strong (a fellow New Yorker) stars in Armageddon Time as Irving Graff, essentially Gray’s real-life father.
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