Sun, Apr 13, 8:15 pm
One show only!

Tom Cruise is Vincent, a hitman who unloads his personal baggage on cab driver Max, played with understated grace by Academy Award nominated Jamie Foxx. The smiling and hyper controlled Vincent is a killer whose hubris is challenged by Max’s humanity, as the latter is forced into chauffeuring the hitman from job to job for one night. Director Michael Mann’s (HEAT) love affair with the neon blue nightscape of Los Angeles has never been put more vividly on display. The pair is shown endlessly gliding over highways as Vincent’s meticulous plans unravel and the tables start to turn between the two men. The film shifts into overdrive when Max finally takes action to protect himself and one of Vincent’s targets (Jada Pinkett Smith), a prosecutor he can see being stalked in her office tower from his vantage point on a parking garage far below—just one of the standout sequences in a movie steeped in Mann’s distinct visual style. DIR/PROD Michael Mann; SCR Stuart Beattie; PROD Julie Richardson. US, 2004, color, 120 min. RATED R

Ticket Information:
The National Building Museum is proud to partner with the American Film Institute (AFI) Silver Theatre and Cultural Center on this film series, "L.A. Modern, 1960–2000," which surveys mid-century to postmodern views of Los Angeles as the city of angels evolved into the nation’s second largest, and most modern, metropolis. The AFI Silver Theatre is located at 8633 Colesville Road in Silver Spring, Maryland, Silver Spring Metro, Red Line.

BUY TICKETS THROUGH AFI.com/Silver. $8.50 AFI and NBM members | $12 General Admission | $10 Seniors (65+), Students (with valid ID), and Military | $7 Children (12 and under). Tickets may also be purchased at the box office (opens 30 minutes before the first show of the day). Please note that tickets are not available for purchase through the National Building Museum.

Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940-1990 is generously supported by the Milton and Dorothy Sarnoff Raymond Foundation, ZGF Architects LLP, Lois England, and the Reinsch Pierce Family Foundation, Lola C. Reinsch and J. Almont Pierce.