Rehearsal
(USA/Canada/U.K.)

Artistry and craft are threatened when the producer-boyfriend of a British theatre director hires a Hollywood action star for a mounting of Chekhov’s The Seagull. It’s a desperate bid to save their struggling theatre company, but commercial and cultural sensibilities—not to mention egos—clash and tensions erupt into a power struggle between the director (Bruce Greenwood) and his jockish star (Dean Geyer).

While this light rom-com remains congenial and Greenwood delivers a solid performance, there’s an overall blandness to the proceedings (and some of the cast) that undermines an otherwise amusing take on the age-old rivalry between art and commerce.

Friday (December 4).