Kate Plays Christine

Kate Plays Christine

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Robert Greene
Produced by Susan Bedusa
Written by Robert Greene
Starring Kate Lyn Sheil
Music by Keegan DeWitt
Cinematography Sean Price Williams
Edited by Robert Greene
Production
companies
  • Faliro House
  • 4th Row Films
  • Prewar Cinema
Distributed by Grasshopper Film
Release date
  • January 24, 2016 (2016-01-24) (SFF)
  • August 24, 2016 (2016-08-24)
Running time
112 minutes[1]
Country United States
Language English
Box office $7,975[2]

Kate Plays Christine is a 2016 American documentary film written and directed by Robert Greene. It follows actress Kate Lyn Sheil's preparation for the role of Christine Chubbuck, a newscaster who committed suicide on live television in 1974. It is one of the two films about Chubbuck that premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, the other being Christine.[3]

Release

The film premiered on January 24, 2016, at the Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Documentary Competition section,[4] where it won the Special Jury Award for Writing.[5] It was also selected to screen at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2016.[6] Grashopper Film acquired the US distribution rights to the film in April 2016.[7] The film was released in one theater on August 26, 2016.[2]

Critical response

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 82% based on 55 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Kate Plays Christine blurs genres—and the line between fact and reality—with a cleverly provocative docudrama look at newscaster Christine Chubbuck's life and death."[8] On Metacritic, the film has a score 75 out of 100, based on 19 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[9]

References

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