The film “Patti Cake$,” a coming-of-age story straight out of New Jersey, opens at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center on Oct. 6. Also continuing to show is “Viceroy’s House.”
“Patti Cake$,” is the first feature film from acclaimed commercial and music-video director Geremy Jasper. Set in a gritty strip-mall suburbia, the film chronicles the quest of an unlikely rapper finds her voice as a one-of-a-kind hip-hop legend.
“Patti Cake$,” which is rated R for language throughout, crude sexual references, some drug use and a brief nude image, plays at the Ross through Oct. 19.
“Viceroy’s House,” is a film that offers a balanced perspective to the 1947 transition of India from British rule to independence.
The film follows Lord Mountbatten (played by “Downton Abbey’s” Hugh Bonneville), who is dispatched along with his wife, Edwina (Gillian Anderson), to New Dehli to oversee the change.
Taking his place in the resplendent mansion known as the Viceroy’s House, Mountbatten arrives hopeful for a peaceful transference of power. But ending centuries of colonial rule in a country divided by deep religious and cultural differences proves no easy undertaking, setting off a seismic struggle that threatens to tear India apart. With sumptuous period detail, director Gurinder Chadha brings to life a pivotal historical moment that re-shaped the world.
“Viceroy’s House,” which is not rated, shows through Oct. 12.
For more information on films showing at the Ross, including show times, click here or call 402-472-5353.
