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The Hot Flashes

Everyone Thought Their Glory Days Were Over. Everyone Thought Wrong.

  • Director: Susan Seidelman
  • Writer: Brad Hennig
  • Type: Features
  • Year: 2014
  • Country: US
  • Language: English
  • Length: 99 minutes

An unlikely basketball team of unappreciated middle-aged Texas women, all former high school champs, challenge the current high school girls state champs to a series of games to raise money for breast cancer prevention. Sparks fly as these marginalized women go to comic extremes to prove themselves on and off the court, and in the process become a national media sensation.

Preceded by the Makers short on champion basketball player Lisa Leslie.

Date: Sunday, February 9, 12PM
Location: Lehman Auditorium, 202 Altschul Hall 

Director Susan Seidelman will join the audience for a discussion following the film.

Editor: Keiko Deguchi
Cinematographer: Frank G. DeMarco
Executive Producers: Jenny Johnson and Laurie Lacob
Producers: Nina Henderson Moore, Brad Hennig and Susan Seidelman
Featuring: Brooke Shields, Wanda Sykes and Daryl Hannah

 

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