Quad Cinema Hosts Screening of MASTER HAROLD Film, 5/4

"MASTER HAROLD"... AND THE BOYS, a new film based on the award-winning Broadway play by Athol Fugard, starring Freddie Highmore (Finding Neverland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) and Ving Rhames (Pulp Fiction) and directed by Lonny Price (New York Philharmonic's Company with Neil Patrick Harris and Stephen Colbert, Emmy Award winning director of Sweeney Todd), will host a screening at the Quad Cinema (34 W. 13th Street) at 6 PM on Wednesday, May 4, 2011, as part of the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival. The screening is open to the public, and tickets are available now for purchase at www.masterharoldandtheboys.com.

"MASTER HAROLD"... AND THE BOYS won the Cape Winelands Film Festival Audience Award in 2010. The May 4th screening of "MASTER HAROLD"... AND THE BOYS at the Quad Cinema will mark the 29th anniversary of the opening of the Broadway production (5 previews and 344 regular performances), in which Lonny Price portrayed the role of Hally.

"MASTER HAROLD"... AND THE BOYS takes place in South Africa at the beginning of the apartheid era when institutionalized racism started. It's the story of Hally, a vulnerable teen-ager (Freddie Highmore), who is torn between love of his racist, alcoholic father and his love for Sam (Ving Rhames), a black employee in his mother's tea room. Sam is Hally's "soul father", sensitive to Hally's isolation and embarrassment caused by his father's behavior. On a rainy day in western Africa, emotions come to an emotional, terrible head. Other cast: Patrick Mofokeng, Jennifer Steyn.

For more information, visit: www.masterharoldandtheboys.com