ABE & PHIL’S LAST POKER GAME

Director: Howard Weiner

2017

Screenwriter: Howard Weiner

Cast: Pamela Dubin, Martin Landau, Paul Sorvino, Maria Dizzia.

After the screening, we are delighted to have a panel with director (and neurologist) Howard Weiner, MD; actor/West Hartford native Pamela Dubin, and William Church, Department of Chemistry and Neuroscience Program at Trinity College.

 

Join us at 7 pm for a special screening of Abe & Phil’s Last Poker Game, Academy Award-winning actor Martin Landau (Ed Wood, Crimes An Misdemeanors) stars in his final film as a retired physician who moves into an assisted living community with his wife, who has Alzheimer’s dementia. Abe soon learns that his new living arrangement is full of surprises. In particular, a host of unlikely friendships: with a gregarious, poker-loving patient (Paul Sorvino), a sultry volunteer (Pamela Dubin), and the mysterious nurse who is searching for her long-lost father.