Local ties aplenty in featured films

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, March, 2006 | by Carrie Rickey

What makes a movie Philadelphian? Its director? Writer? Subject? Setting? Star?

There are a number of PFF films with local connections. Here are 10 to watch:

Abington-bornSusan Seidelman marks her fourth film festival visit withBoynton Beach Club (4/7, 4/8), a rom-com set in a Florida active-retirement community where seniors prospect for partners at the bereavement club.

Antony Giacchino, Villanova '92, makes his feature debut withThe Camden 28 (Saturday, Sunday). His documentary chronicles a group of antiwar demonstrators, most of them priests and Catholic laypeople. They called themselves "America's conscience" and were indicted for breaking into a New Jersey draft board to stop the induction of soldiers during the Vietnam War.

Temple gradsKeith...

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