First Look at Max Rose with Jerry Lewis
HomeFirst Look at Max Rose with Jerry Lewis
Posted August 3, 2016 06:35 PM by Webmaster
Lightstream Entertainment has released an official domestic trailer for director Daniel Noah's upcoming film Max Rose (2016), starring Kerry Bishé, Jerry Lewis, Kevin Pollak, and Dean Stockwell. The film, rough footage of which previously debuted at the Cannes Film Festival, opens in New York on September 2, in LA on September 9, and then nationwide through September and October.
Also included with this announcement is the official theatrical poster for the upcoming film.
Official studio synopsis: At 90 years young, comedy legend Jerry Lewis is returning to the big screen. The iconic nonagenarian stars as the titular widower in the upcoming drama Max Rose, a film that could trigger more tears than laughter.
Days before the death of Eva (Claire Bloom), his wife of 65 years, jazz pianist Max discovers that she had another man in her life. The news is just as shocking to his son (Kevin Pollak) and granddaughter (Kerry Bishé), and it leads Max on a journey to track down Eva's secret lover, Ben (Dean Stockwell).
The trailer touts Max Rose as Lewis's "most personal role of a lifetime." It's certainly a personal undertaking for writer-director Daniel Noah, who based Max and Eva on his own late grandparents.
Lewis, who shot to fame in the late-1940s as one half of the musical-comedy duo Martin and Lewis, before embarking on a solo career that included such classics as the Nutty Professor and The King of Comedy, hasn't been seen or heard from much in recent years. In fact, Max Rose is Lewis's first lead role since 1995's comic tale Funny Bones, in which he costarred with Oliver Platt.
Also included with this announcement is the official theatrical poster for the upcoming film.
Official studio synopsis: At 90 years young, comedy legend Jerry Lewis is returning to the big screen. The iconic nonagenarian stars as the titular widower in the upcoming drama Max Rose, a film that could trigger more tears than laughter.
Days before the death of Eva (Claire Bloom), his wife of 65 years, jazz pianist Max discovers that she had another man in her life. The news is just as shocking to his son (Kevin Pollak) and granddaughter (Kerry Bishé), and it leads Max on a journey to track down Eva's secret lover, Ben (Dean Stockwell).
The trailer touts Max Rose as Lewis's "most personal role of a lifetime." It's certainly a personal undertaking for writer-director Daniel Noah, who based Max and Eva on his own late grandparents.
Lewis, who shot to fame in the late-1940s as one half of the musical-comedy duo Martin and Lewis, before embarking on a solo career that included such classics as the Nutty Professor and The King of Comedy, hasn't been seen or heard from much in recent years. In fact, Max Rose is Lewis's first lead role since 1995's comic tale Funny Bones, in which he costarred with Oliver Platt.
