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DON’T BE LATE!
There’s still time to take a trip down the
rabbit hole: Running through Oct. 16,
Theatre and Dance at Wayne (housed
at the Bonstelle Theatre, built as Temple
Beth-El in 1902) presents Alice in
Wonderland, starring Cammie McGillis as
Alice and based on Lewis Carroll’s bizarre
and whimsical adventure. $10-$20.
(313) 577-2960; bonstelle1.com.

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and Veronica Swanson Beard with
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For this year’s Veronica Beard Fall,
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50 October 13 • 2016

Nate Bloom
Special to the Jewish News

MOVIE NEWS
Opening Friday, Oct. 14: The Accountant is
a thriller starring Ben Affleck as Christian
Wolff, a math savant with Asperger’s syn-
drome. Behind the cover of a small-town
CPA office, Wolff works as a freelance
accountant for criminal organizations, like
the Mafia. A criminal investigator for the
Treasury Department (J.K. Simmons) is
hot on Wolff’s trail.
Wolff decides to take a legitim ate cli-
ent — a high-tech company where an
accounting clerk (Anna Kendrick) has
discovered a multi-million-dollar discrep-
ancy. As Wolff unwinds this company’s
books, people start to die.
Jon Bernthal, 40, and Emmy-favorite
Jeffrey Tambor, 72, have large support-
ing roles. Bernthal plays Brax, a merce-
nary for hire, and Tambor plays Francis
Silverberg, a veteran Mafia accountant
who is Affleck’s mentor.
Last week it was announced that
Denial star Rachel Weisz, 46 (see “The

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Holocaust Defense” in this issue), has
signed to star in the upcoming film
Disobedience, based on a novel by British
writer Naomi Alderman, 40. Weisz will
play an English Jewish woman, the
daughter of an Orthodox rabbi, who has
fled her religious background and moved
to the States. She returns home for her
estranged father’s funeral, meets up with
two old friends and disrupts their tradi-
tionally Jewish lives. Rachel McAdams
co-stars.

FUN NOTES
Christopher Guest, 68, is the master of
“the mockumentary.” He co-wrote This
is Spinal Tap; he co-wrote and directed
Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show and A
Mighty Wind. His new film, Mascots, fol-
lows several people who play sports-team
mascots as they compete for honors
(“The Gold Fluffy Award”) at the (fictional)
World Mascot Association. Mascots opens
in select theaters on Oct. 13 and begins
streaming on Netflix that day, too.
Bob Balaban, 71, who usually plays
Jewish characters in Guest films, appears
to be playing another Jew — named Sol
Lumpkin.
Another Guest-film regular, Harry

