Friday Night Feature at Darien Library: ‘A Hologram for the King’ with Tom Hanks

“A Hologram for the King” (2015) is the Aug. 12 Friday Night Feature at Darien Library, playing at 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Starring Tom Hanks, David Menkin, Tom Skerritt, Sarita Choudhury, Tracey Fairaway, Alexander Black Rated R; 97 minutes; Presented with Captions for the hearing impaired. Director Tom Tykwer adapts Dave Eggers’ best-selling novel, in which an American businessman (Tom Hanks) travels to Saudi Arabia in an attempt to sell a holographic telecommunications system to the country’s king. Desperate to make the deal in order to stay afloat in a failing economy, he learns to navigate this unfamiliar culture with the help of a taxi driver (Alexander Black) and a local doctor (Sarita Choudhury). _________

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