All Grown Up

Courtesy Farmington Daily Times

No, how you doin'? Matt LeBlanc and Eddie Izzard play dress up in All the Queen's Men. Actually, that's how Eddie looks most of the time anyway.

Joe Whalen

Adrift, and then some: In his documentary, filmmaker Tom Curran III, age 9 in this photo, recalls a life spent in the heavy shadow of his father, Tom Curran Jr.

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April 25 through May 2. Opening night's film will screen at the Lakewood Theater, 1825 Abrams Parkway. Tickets are $10 per event, $8 for USAFF members; opening-night tickets are $15 and include a post-screening reception with guests. For more information, call 214-821-3456 or visit the USAFF Web site at www.usafilmfestival.com

Angelika Film Center & Café, 5321 E. Mockingbird Lane

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Zenith
April 28 at 7:10 p.m.
When a loaf of bread sells for the same price as a bushel of wheat, how can a small farmer get by? Badly, but that doesn't deter the handful of people remaining in Zenith, Kansas, from trying to hold their dying community together. Beset by hard times and despair, they turn to religion and decide to produce The Great Plains Passion Play. How does the passion and crucifixion of Christ relate to the macroeconomic forces killing small farms? Director Kirsten Tretbar's documentary never draws the line clearly, and Zenith's long scenes of combines cutting wheat and locals rehearsing for the passion play seem, in the end, a bit shallow. While the Kansans' efforts to rally around faith are admirable, you're left wondering: What exactly is Christlike in trying to maintain a small business--the family farm--in an industry transformed by mass production and economies of scale? Light on reporting, context or depth, Zenith is still interesting at times for its candid interviews with the hard-worn people of Zenith and Stafford, Kansas, but at an hour in length, it feels about 30 minutes too long. Kirsten Tretbar is scheduled to attend. --P.W.