(ASBURY PARK, NJ) -- The ShowRoom Cinema in Asbury Park is one of the few theaters around the country currently presenting screenings of Little Woods. The film, directed by Nia DaCosta, stars Lily James, Tessa Thompson, and Luke Kirby. It's sort of a modern day western involving a fracking town in North Dakota that is booming well beyond its prime. The ShowRoom has screenings from April 19-25.
Ollie (Tessa Thompson) is trying to survive the last few days of her probation after getting caught illegally running prescription pills over the Canadian border. But when her mother dies, she is thrust back into the life of her estranged sister Deb (Lily James), who is facing her own crisis with an unplanned pregnancy and a deadbeat ex. The two find they have one week to settle the mortgage on their mother’s house or face foreclosure. As bills and pressure mount, Ollie faces a choice: whether to return to a way of life she thought she’d left behind for just one more score or to leave it all behind.
Writer/director Nia DaCosta won Tribeca Film Festival’s 2018 Nora Ephron Award for this emotionally-charged small-town modern Western about two women in rural America. The film currently has 98% Fresh Rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
The ShowRoom Cinema is located at 707 Cookman Avenue in Asbury Park, New Jersey. The ShowRoom brings an important selection of independent first-run films — critically-acclaimed foreign, festival winners, family, local and shorts — to Asbury Park’s downtown, giving movies a permanent home again after a 30-year hiatus. Relevant, thought-provoking, independently distributed films fill their schedule and bring movie fans to their home on Cookman Avenue from all over the tri-state area. They are proud to see people unexpectedly discovering the new Asbury Park and all it has to offer because they came to the theater for a currently released film that they couldn’t find anywhere else like Little Woods.
