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CONCERN FOR COVID-19:
At the Castro Theatre, all of our regularly scheduled films, sing-alongs and special events will go on as planned.
We will comply with City and State directives and thus we will limit
the capacity in the auditorium to not greater than 250 persons at any time. Our large seating capacity allows for ample social distance to be available at all our regular screenings.
Staff has also been instructed to stay home if they experience any cold or flu like symptoms. We kindly ask you, our patrons, to stay home if you are experiencing any cold or flu related symptoms.
We will continue monitoring the COVID-19 situation, adjusting to any new developments as they arise. We will also continue working with our programing partners to provide updates to all of our events as deemed necessary. Please check our Facebook page and website for updates. Stay safe and healthy. Your well-being is important to us.
Thank you from all of us at the Castro Theatre.
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SATURDAY MARCH 14
POSTPONED
In accordance with the city's overnight ban of events
with over 250 people we have no choice but to postpone
this show to a later date. As you can imagine, this is
a huge disappointment to all of us but the health and
safety of our community must take priority. I am
working with The Castro Theatre and the show's talent
to find the best possible date for rescheduling and we
will announce as soon as possible. Of course, all
ticket sales will be honored at the same value for the
new show. As you can imagine, this has put Peaches
Christ Productions in a financially crippling position
due to so much money already spent. It is our hope
that with postponement we are best able to survive
this as a company.
Thank you all so much for understanding!
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SUNDAY MARCH 15
SPECIAL EVENT ($16/$12)
BUY TICKETS
Disney’s FROZEN II
Sing-Along Noon
Venture “Into the
Unknown” alongside Anna and Elsa when Walt Disney
Animation Studios’ Frozen II Special
Sing-Along Engagement comes to the Castro for a
limited time! Our hosts will warm up your vocal chords
before every screening then you can sing along to the
words on screen during the movie!
Why was Elsa
born with magical powers? The answer is calling her
and threatening her kingdom. Together with Anna,
Kristoff, Olaf and Sven, she'll set out on a dangerous
but remarkable journey. In Frozen, Elsa
feared her powers were too much for the world. In
Frozen II, she must hope they are enough. From
the Academy Award®-winning team—directors Jennifer Lee
and Chris Buck, and songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez
and Robert Lopez—and featuring the voices of Idina
Menzel, Kristen Bell, Jonathan Groff and Josh Gad.
(2019, full program runs approx. 120 min, DCP ‘Scope)
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SUNDAY MARCH 15
KIRK DOUGLAS
DOUBLE FEATURE
BUY TICKETS
 THE
BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL 3:45, 8:05
When ruthless albeit fading film producer
Jonathan Shields (Kirk Douglas) looks to mount
a comeback project, backer Harry Pebbel
(Walter Pidgeon) faces a dicey pitch with
three needed collaborators—actress Georgia
Lorrison (Lana Turner), director Fred Amiel
(Barry Sullivan), and scripter James Lee
Bartlow (Dick Powell) —whom Shields had badly
burned professionally and personally. Vincente
Minnelli's barbed look at the Golden Age of
Hollywood also features Gloria Grahame in an
Oscar-winning turn. (1952, 118 min, 35mm)
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ACE IN THE HOLE 6:00
Billy
Wilder’s Ace in the Hole is one of the most
scathing indictments of American culture ever
produced by a Hollywood filmmaker. Kirk
Douglas gives the fiercest performance of his
career as Chuck Tatum, an amoral newspaper
reporter who washes up in dead-end
Albuquerque, happens upon the scoop of a
lifetime, and will do anything to keep getting
the lurid headlines. Wilder’s follow-up to Sunset Boulevard is an even darker vision, a
no-holds-barred exposé of the American media’s
appetite for sensation that has gotten only
more relevant with time. –Criterion Collection
(1951, 111 min, 35mm) |
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MONDAY MARCH 16
ADVANCE
SCREENINGS!
BUY TICKETS
MISS FISHER AND
THE CRYPT OF TEARS 6:00, 8:00
Move
over, Downton Abbey! Glamorous lady detective
Phryne Fisher (Essie Davis, The Babadook)
returns in a cinematic sequel to the wildly popular TV
series Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. In
1929 Jerusalem, Miss Fisher's rescue of a young
Bedouin girl leads her on a globe-trotting adventure
to uncover priceless treasures, wartime secrets, and
an ancient tomb bearing a terrible curse, with the
help of handsome detective Jack Robinson (Nathan Page,
Underbelly). Khaled Naga, Miriam Margoles,
and Izabella Yenaco co-star; Tony Tilse directs.
(2020, 101 min, DCP)
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TUESDAY MARCH 17
ST. PATRICK’S DAY
DOUBLE FEATURE
BUY TICKETS
 THE
CRYING GAME 6:30
The Irish
Troubles' provide the backdrop for a study of
sexual intrigue in this maze-like drama from
writer/director Neil Jordan. When British
soldier Jody (Forest Whitaker) is kidnapped by
the IRA, he strikes up an unlikely friendship
with his captor, Fergus (Stephen Rea); the two
eventually becoming embroiled in a curious
love triangle with Dil (Jaye Davidson, in a
startling film debut), Jody's lover. Full of
suspense, mystery and intrigue, this Academy
Award-winning thriller challenged mainstream
sexual stereotypes and remains a powerful and
poignant exploration of gender and identity.
(1992, 112 min, HD ‘Scope)
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MILLER’S CROSSING 8:35
The Coen
Brothers’ glorious Prohibition era crime
thriller stars Albert Finney as an
Irish-American mob boss ready to go to war
with a rival gangster and Gabriel Byrne is a
loyal lieutenant who tries to prevent the
conflict—until a woman comes between them. Not
a re-invention of the gangster genre but an
embrace of the old-fashioned Hollywood model,
it’s a work of substantial brilliance steeped
in traditional formulas and benchmarks. Marcia
Gay Harden, John Turturro and Jon Polito
co-star. (1990, 115 min, DCP) |
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WEDNESDAY MARCH 18
SPECIAL EVENT
SFFILM Members
Night 7:00
SFFILM members and their
guests are invited to join us for an insider preview
of the 2020 San Francisco International Festival,
which runs April 8–21 at venues all over the Bay Area!
Our programming team will deliver a multimedia
walkthrough of this year’s stellar lineup, giving
members the first opportunity to view clips from
featured films and to hear about Festival screenings,
special events, and expected guests. The Festival box
office team will also be set up onsite, and this will
be the first in-person opportunity to purchase tickets
to Festival programs.
Enjoy light refreshments
and talk film with fellow members, Festival staff, and
other key members of the local arts and culture
community and help us celebrate the kickoff to an
amazing Festival season.
sffilm.org
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THURSDAY MARCH 19 through SATURDAY
MARCH 21
BUY TICKETS
Alfred Hitchcock’s
VERTIGO Projected in 70mm!
Thu & Fri 5:00, 7:45;
Sat (2:30), 5:15, 8:00
Acrophobic
detective James Stewart is hired to trail a friend's
suicidal wife but as his detecting of the enigmatic
beauty turns to an obsession, the film builds to
dizzying heights of duplicity, derangement, and
delusion. Alfred Hitchcock’s immortal masterpiece is
his most powerful and personal work, for decades
challenging viewers to decode its multiple layers of
symbolism amidst a myriad of haunting images shot on
renowned landmarks of San Francisco. Co-starring Kim
Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, and Bernard Herrmann’s
indelible music score. (1958, 129 min, 70mm)
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SUNDAY MARCH 22
SPECIAL EVENT
PLEASE
NOTE: This event has been rescheduled to
SUNDAY MAY 17, 1pm.
SF Premiere
WAGING CHANGE 1:00
Waging Change shines a spotlight on
the challenges faced by restaurant workers
trying to feed themselves and their families
off tips. Featuring Saru Jayaraman, Lily
Tomlin, Jane Fonda and Rep. Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez, the film reveals an American
workers struggle hidden in plain sight-the
effort to end the tipped minimum wage of $2.13
for servers and bartenders and the #MeToo
movement's effort to end sexual harassment.
Directed by Peabody award winner Abby
GInzberg, Waging Change helps all consumers
see the role they have to play in ending this
two-tiered wage system.
Filmmaker Abby
Ginzberg and Saru Jayaraman, President of One
Fair Wage will be present for a post screening
discussion moderated by Noreen Farrell,
Executive Director of Equal Rights Advocates.
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SUNDAY MARCH 22 KIRK DOUGLAS DOUBLE FEATURE
BUY TICKETS
 PATHS
OF GLORY 6:00
After a disastrous
retreat from a skirmish with German forces,
three French soldiers face death on trumped-up
charges of cowardice by their conniving
leadership. Director Stanley Kubrick’s full
artistry blossoms in his second feature—fluid
camera, striking geometric compositions,
themes of man destroyed by indifferent social
forces and the horrors of war—and Kirk Douglas
gives one of his absolute finest performances
as the driven, sympathetic captain advocating
for the accused. Classic. (1957, 88 min, DCP)
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LONELY ARE THE BRAVE 7:45
In his
favorite of his films, Kirk Douglas stars as a
ruggedly individualistic cowboy on a collision
course with the modern world. His
uncompromising spirit is severely challenged
when he breaks out of jail after a minor
offense, and the entire county's police force
tries to recapture him before he can leave the
territory. David Miller helmed Spartacus
screenwriter Dalton Trumbo's mournful
masterpiece. “There is no greater western,
and certainly no more tragic one. It’s hard to
imagine a film so radical, or so pessimistic,
being made today. “ –Alex Cox. Gena
Rowlands, Walter Matthau, Michael Kane, George
Kennedy, and Carroll O'Connor co-star. (1962,
107 min, 35mm ‘Scope) |
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MONDAY MARCH 23
VITTORIO STORARO DOUBLE FEATURE
BUY TICKETS
 THE
CONFORMIST 7:00
4K Restoration!
In fascist Italy, a young wealthy follower of
Mussolini (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is called
on to kill a former college professor, forcing
him to examine why he associates sex with
violence while coming to grips with his own
homosexuality. Adapted from the Alberto
Moravia novel, Bernardo Bertolucci’s stunning
masterwork boasts an authentic Art Deco design
created by Ferdinando Scarfiotti, a score by
the great Georges Delerue (Contempt)
and breathtaking color cinematography by
Vittorio Storaro. Dominique Sanda, Stefania
Sandrelli, and Pierre Clémenti co-star. (1970,
in Italian with English subtitles, 111 min, 4K
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THE FIFTH CORD 9:05
When a man
barely survives a brutal assault, washed-up,
whisky-swilling journalist Franco Nero (Django)
is assigned to the case. Before long, the
maniac strikes again, this time with fatal
results. As the body count rises, Nero is
under suspicion himself, making it even more
imperative that he crack the case. Thanks to
skillful execution and stylistic
experimentation, director Luigi Bazzoni (Le
Orme, The Possessed) and cinematographer
Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now)
turn a conventional premise into a visually
stunning exploration of alienation and
isolation. Featuring the staggering music of
Il Maestro himself, Ennio Morricone. (1971, in
Italian with English subtitles, 92 min, DCP) |
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TUESDAY MARCH 24
BUY TICKETS
LONG STRANGE TRIP:
The Untold Story of The Grateful Dead 6:30
The 30-year odyssey of the Bay Area’s own Grateful
Dead was the most unlikely success story in rock 'n'
roll history. Famously averse to publicity and
seemingly incapable of recording radio-friendly hits,
they flouted music industry convention by giving their
live music away to a global network of tape traders
and becoming the highest grossing concert act in
America through word of mouth alone. With a soundtrack
that captures some of the band's most dynamic live
performances as well as unguarded offstage moments and
never-before-seen interviews, footage and photos, Amir
Bar-Lev’s documentary explores the Dead's singular
experiment in radically eclectic music making. (2017,
241 min + intermission, DCP)
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WEDNESDAY MARCH 25
JACK CARDIFF DOUBLE FEATURE
BUY TICKETS
 PANDORA
AND THE FLYING DUTCHMAN 2:45, 7:00
New 4K
Restoration!
Sultry and surreal,
macabre and hopelessly romantic, Ava Gardner
and James Mason star in this grown-up fairy
tale as lovers alternately casting or in the
clutches of a powerful spell. She’s an
otherworldly beauty driving men to distraction
(or worse), he’s a 17th-century sea captain
doomed to sail the seas for eternity—unless he
can find a woman willing to sacrifice her life
for love. Set in the fictional Spanish seaside
town of Esperanza and boasting a luscious
palette photographed by master Technicolor
cameraman Jack Cardiff (Black Narcissus),
Pandora unfurls with dreamlike logic somewhere
between the physical and the metaphysical,
sometime between modernity and antiquity.
Lovingly restored using Martin Scorsese’s
personal 35mm Technicolor print as a color
reference, this curio turned classic has never
looked so good. (Be on the lookout for a chess
set designed by Man Ray, who was also the
on-set photographer for Ava Gardner). –Quad
Cinema (1951, 123 min, 4K DCP) 2019
restoration completed by Cohen Film
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A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH 5:00, 9:15
4K Restoration!
Michael Powell and Emeric
Pressburger’s remarkable WWII fantasy-drama
about a RAF pilot David Niven who cheats death
and must plead for his life before a Heavenly
court. A film so dazzling in its visual
trickery and textural richness that it
requires more than one viewing to absorb
fully, among the many effective artistic
choices was the decision to film the
earthbound scenes in Technicolor and the
Heaven sequences in black-and-white. Kim
Hunter, Raymond Massey, Roger Livesey, and
Richard Attenborough co-star. (1946, 104 min,
4K DCP) |
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THURSDAY MARCH 26
DOUBLE FEATURE
BUY TICKETS
 LINDA
RONSTADT: The Sound of My Voice 7:00
With one of the most memorably stunning
voices that has ever hit the airwaves, Linda
Ronstadt burst onto the 1960s folk rock music
scene and soon after began her reign as the
"rock queen" of the '70s and early '80s, then
taking her vocal talents beyond those realms.
With moving performance footage and
appearances by collaborators including Dolly
Parton, Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt, and
Jackson Browne, this documentary by Rob
Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (The Times of
Harvey Milk) celebrates an artist whose
desire to share the music she loved made
generations of fans fall in love with her—and
the sound of her voice. (2019, 95 min, DCP) |
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FM 8:45
At popular L.A.
progressive radio station Q-SKY, ultra-cool
program director Michael Brandon runs a
free-wheeling show. But when a clash over
content with corporate management puts his job
on the line, his DJ team embarks on a
rebellious rally for their independence.
Directed by leJohn Alonzo (Chinatown,
Vanishing Point) this energetic,
soundtrack-driven comedy co-stars Martin Mull,
Cleavon Little, Eileen Brennan, Alex Karras,
and Norman Lloyd, with epic footage of Linda
Ronstadt and Jimmy Buffett in concert. (1978,
104 min, HD ‘Scope) |
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FRIDAY MARCH 27
DOUBLE FEATURE
BUY TICKETS
 THE
WARRIORS 7:30
Walter Hill’s
hyper-stylized actioner follows a Coney
Island street gang as they make their way
through 28 miles of "enemy territory" with
100,000 rival gang members hot on their
trail. The universe created by Hill and
cinematographer Andrew Laszlo is futuristic
but its distinct ‘70s vibe makes the scenario
play out like an urban nightmare. Michael
Beck, James Remar, Deborah Van Vulkenberg,
and David Patrick Kelly star. (1979, 92 min,
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VANISHING POINT 9:15
In one of
the most spectacular car chases in motion
picture history, Kowalski (played, with
maximum minimum cool, by Barry Newman) sets
out to prove that he can drive his
super-charged Dodge Challenger from Denver to
San Francisco in just fifteen hours. Director
Richard Sarafian’s intoxicating thrill-ride is
an offbeat mix of road action and existential
drama that has earned a reverential following
from today’s auteurs and the cult film crowd
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SUNDAY MARCH 29 SPECIAL EVENT ($16/$12)
BUY TICKETS
Disney’s FROZEN II
Sing-Along Noon
Venture “Into the
Unknown” alongside Anna and Elsa when Walt Disney
Animation Studios’ Frozen II Special
Sing-Along Engagement comes to the Castro for a
limited time! Our hosts will warm up your vocal chords
before every screening then you can sing along to the
words on screen during the movie!
Why was Elsa
born with magical powers? The answer is calling her
and threatening her kingdom. Together with Anna,
Kristoff, Olaf and Sven, she'll set out on a dangerous
but remarkable journey. In Frozen, Elsa
feared her powers were too much for the world. In
Frozen II, she must hope they are enough. From
the Academy Award®-winning team—directors Jennifer Lee
and Chris Buck, and songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez
and Robert Lopez—and featuring the voices of Idina
Menzel, Kristen Bell, Jonathan Groff and Josh Gad.
(2019, full program runs approx. 120 min, DCP ‘Scope)
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SUNDAY MARCH 29
KIRK DOUGLAS DOUBLE FEATURE
BUY TICKETS
 LUST
FOR LIFE 3:45
The tormented
genius that was Vincent Van Gogh left behind
masterworks that forever changed the world of
art. Director Vincent Minnelli incorporates
many visual elements inspired by the artist
into his stirring biopic about the conflicted
and destructive painter who still managed to
see a world of beauty like no other. Kirk
Douglas won a Golden Globe for his memorable
portrayal of Van Gogh, and Anthony Quinn is
superb as Paul Gauguin, in this exquisite
exploration of the heights and depths of
making art. (1956, 122 min, 35mm) |
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SPARTACUS 6:00
Stanley Kubrick’s
Oscar-winning saga centered on a Roman slave
revolt headed by Kirk Douglas’s titular
folklore hero still holds the power to amaze.
The cast of major league actors—among them
Peter Ustinov, Jean Simmons, Laurence Olivier
and especially Charles Laughton—all make
exceptional work of Dalton Trumbo’s reflective
screenplay, while Kubrick himself handles the
film’s mechanics of corruption with skill.
This is widescreen, epic filmmaking on a
massive scale: the final battle scene
stretches as far as the eye can see—to see it
once again on the big screen, in all its
expansive glory, is a treat not to be missed.
(1960, 196 min + intermission, 35mm ‘Scope) |
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MONDAY MARCH 30
BUY TICKETS
FANTASTIC FUNGI 6:00, 8:00
Directed by
award-winning filmmaker and pioneer of time-lapse
photography, Louie Schwartzberg (Moving Art, Wings of
Life, Mysteries of the Unseen Worlds 3D Imax),
Fantastic Fungi is an immersive experience that will
inspire a shift in consciousness and a renewed love of
nature. Narrated by Academy Award-Winner Brie Larson,
the film takes us on a journey into the magical earth
beneath our feet: an underground network with the
potential to heal and save our planet. Through the
eyes of renowned scientists and mycologists like Paul
Stamets, best-selling authors Michael Pollan, Eugenia
Bone, Andrew Weil and others, we become aware of the
beauty, intelligence and solutions the fungi kingdom
offers us in response to some of our most pressing
medical, therapeutic, and environmental challenges.
(2019, 74 min, DCP)
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TUESDAY MARCH 31
FRANCIS COPPOLA
DOUBLE FEATURE
BUY TICKETS
 THE
CONVERSATION 7:00
New 35mm Print!
Lonely wiretapping
expert and devout Catholic Harry Caul (Gene
Hackman) is hired to record a seemingly
innocuous conversation between two lovers
(Fredric Forrest and Cindy Williams). Upon
re-hearing the tapes, however, Caul believes
he may be putting the couple in danger if he
turns the material over to his client. Shot
on location in San Francisco, this Palme d’Or
winner is Francis Ford Coppola’s favorite of
his own films; both an intimate character
study and an ominous foreshadowing of today’s
surveillance state. John Cazale, Allen
Garfield, Harrison Ford, Teri Garr, and sound
montage by Walter Murch co-star. (1974, 113
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THE RAIN PEOPLE 9:05 New 4K Restoration!
Shirley Knight stars as Natalie, a housewife
who, unable to cope with being "trapped" by
impending pregnancy, deserts her husband and
takes to the road. Heavily influenced by the
French New Wave, Francis Ford Coppola’s
intensely moving film was ahead of its time
from both filmmaking and feminist points of
view. Knight brings a searing truth to her
role as do co-stars (and future stars) James
Caan and Robert Duvall as the lonely men who
bring tenderness and tragedy her way. (1969,
101 min, 4K DCP) |
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WEDNESDAY APRIL 1
FRANCIS COPPOLA
DOUBLE FEATURE
BUY TICKETS
THE
CONVERSATION 7:00
New 35mm Print!
Lonely wiretapping
expert and devout Catholic Harry Caul (Gene
Hackman) is hired to record a seemingly
innocuous conversation between two lovers
(Fredric Forrest and Cindy Williams). Upon
re-hearing the tapes, however, Caul believes
he may be putting the couple in danger if he
turns the material over to his client. Shot
on location in San Francisco, this Palme d’Or
winner is Francis Ford Coppola’s favorite of
his own films; both an intimate character
study and an ominous foreshadowing of today’s
surveillance state. John Cazale, Allen
Garfield, Harrison Ford, Teri Garr, and sound
montage by Walter Murch co-star. (1974, 113
min, 35mm) |
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RUMBLE FISH 9:05
New 4K Restoration!
Set in a dreamlike and timeless Tulsa, S.E.
Hinton’s story of estrangement and
reconciliation between two rebellious brothers
is given mythic dimensions to intimate,
painful emotions by director Francis Coppola.
Graced with a remarkable cast headed by Matt
Dillon, Mickey Rourke, and Diane Lane;
haunting black-and-white visuals that hark
back to German expressionism; and a powerful
percussive score by Stewart Copeland that
underlines the movie’s romantic fatalism,
Rumble Fish pulsates throughout with genuine
love and dread. Dennis Hopper, Nicolas Cage,
and Diana Scarwid co-star. (1983, 94 min, 4K
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