Sun, Mar 9, 8:40 pm; Tue, Mar 11, 7:10 pm

Jack Lemmon stars as Harry Stoner, a tormented WWII vet and beleaguered garment manufacturer in this critically acclaimed slice of 70s anxiety from future ROCKY director John Avildsen. Lemmon earned an Academy Award for his riveting portrayal of Stoner, who struggles to reconcile past glories with present disappointments in smog bound L.A.  In the end, Stoner’s nostalgia for 1940s music and baseball’s greats cannot protect him from a day that includes an attempted bribe gone horribly wrong and a delusional plot to save his business by destroying it. Shot in sequence and on-location, Stoner’s desperate journey leads from an impeccable Beverly Hills home down to the aging industrial heart of downtown, and out to the end of the world at a hippie’s shambolic beach house. Academy Award nominated Jack Gilroy is superb as the business partner—and would-be conscience—who stands witness to Stoner’s disintegration. DIR John G. Avildsen; SCR/PROD Steve Shagan, after his novel; PROD Martin Ransohoff. US, 1973, color, 100 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.