The Essentials: MASH (1970)
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.
(PG, 116 min.)
Showtimes
Sunday, August 4, 2019
5:45 PM
Monday, August 5, 2019
7:00 PM
The Essentials: 1970s Comedies
This quarterly series showcases the “essential” films everyone should see on the big screen. For each month-long program, we’ll screen five films organized by one of the following themes: directors, actors, genres, and eras/movements.
Essential tickets are $9 for Adults, $8 for Students/Seniors and Members get in Free!
Summary: Although he was not the first choice to direct it, the hit black comedy MASH established Robert Altman as one of the leading figures of Hollywood's 1970s generation of innovative and irreverent young filmmakers. Scripted by Hollywood veteran Ring Lardner, Jr., this war comedy details the exploits of military doctors and nurses at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in the Korean War. Between exceptionally gory hospital shifts and countless rounds of martinis, wisecracking surgeons Hawkeye Pierce (Donald Sutherland) and Trapper John McIntyre (Elliott Gould) make it their business to undercut the smug, moralistic pretensions of Bible-thumper Maj. Frank Burns (Robert Duvall) and Army true-believer Maj. "Hot Lips" Houlihan (Sally Kellerman).
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt
Director: Robert Altman
Genre(s): Comedy, Drama, War
"The finest American comedy since Some Like It Hot, the Mr. Roberts of the Korean War, The Graduate of 1970, and the film that has been expected from director Robert Altman for some short time."
— John Mahoney, Hollywood Reporter
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