At 7:00 pm, Wednesday, June 18th, the Little Rock Film Festival, Arkansas Film Commission and Little Rock Film Commission, an initiative of the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce, will present a Sneak Peek of Mike Myers’ latest comedy The Love Guru, which was co-written and co-produced by Arkansan Graham Gordy. The screening will be hosted by United Artists Breckenridge Stadium 12, 1200 Breckenridge Drive.
At 9:00 pm, immediately following the screening, an After-Party will be hosted and catered by Lilly’s Dim Sum, Then Some, 11121 N. Rodney Parham Road. Other sponsors include Sunbelt Convention Services Corp. and Searchlights Little Rock.
Reservations for The Love Guru After-Party are $25, which includes free priority seating at the screening. Admission is limited, so reservations must be made on a first purchased/first served basis. Chamber member reservations may be made by clicking here, completing and submitting the form, and sending payment to: Little Rock Film Commission, One Chamber Building, Little Rock, AR 72201-1909, or by contacting Liz Crowson, 377.6010. Reservations may be purchased online by clicking here.
For more information, click here and/or contact Gary Newton, 377.6007.
A native of Conway, Graham Gordy completed his MFA in Dramatic Writing at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where he received the Goldberg Award for Playwriting. He is a member of the Royal Court Theatre's Young Writer's Programme in London, as well as being an American Delegate to Australia's Interplay Young Writer's Conference. His plays have been performed by Naked Angels, The New Group, and New York Stage and Film. In addition to The Love Guru, Graham's screenplay credits include War Eagle, Arkansas, which opened the 2008 Little Rock Film Festival. Graham recently relocated back to Arkansas with his wife and new daughter, Lilla Bird.
In The Love Guru, Pitka (Mike Myers) is an American who was left at the gates of an ashram in India as a child and raised by gurus. He moves back to the U.S. to seek fame and fortune in the world of self-help and spirituality. His unorthodox methods are put to the test when he must settle a rift between Toronto Maple Leafs star hockey player Darren Roanoke (Romany Malco) and his estranged wife. After the split, Roanoke's wife starts dating L.A. Kings star Jacques Grande (Justin Timberlake) out of revenge, sending her husband into a major professional skid - to the horror of the teams' owner Jane Bullard (Jessica Alba) and Coach Cherkov (Verne Troyer). Pitka must return the couple to marital nirvana and get Roanoke back on his game so the team can break the 40-year-old "Bullard Curse" and win the Stanley Cup.
