DETACHMENT from Director Tony Kaye (AMERICAN HISTORY X) and starring Academy Award® winner Adrien Brody opens in New York today Friday, March 16, at AMC EMPIRE 25 VILLAGE EAST CINEMAS.

In the film, Adrien Brody plays Henry Barthes, a substitute teacher who conveniently avoids any emotional connections by never staying anywhere long enough to form a bond with either his students or colleagues.  A lost soul grappling with a troubled past, Henry finds himself at a public school where an apathetic student body has created a frustrated, burned-out administration.  Inadvertently becoming a role model to his students, while also bonding with a runaway teen who is just as lost as he is, Henry finds that he’s not alone in a life and death struggle to find beauty in a seemingly vicious and loveless world. 

DETACHMENT, the winner of Deauville Film Festival “International Critics Award” & “Cartier Revelation Prize”; Tokyo Film Festival “Artistic Contribution Award; Woodstock Film Festival “Maverick Award” (Tony Kaye); and  Sao Paulo Film Festival Audience Award, also stars Academy Award® winner Marcia Gay Harden, Christina Hendricks, William Petersen, Bryan Cranston, Tim Blake Nelson, Lucy Liu, Blythe Danner, James Caan, and newcomers Sami Gayle and Betty Kaye.

Other cities to follow including:

March 23, 2012 – LA
March 30, 2012 – Dallas, TX; Daytona Beach; Ft. Lauderdale, FL; Lake Park, FL; Greenville, SC; Irvington, NY; Otsego, MI; Palm Desert, CA; Phoenix, AZ; San Diego, CA; Wilmette, IL; Wilmington, DE
April 1, 2012 – Winston-Salem, NC
April 4, 2012 – Hamilton, NY
April 13, 2012 – Shreveport, LA
April 25, 2012 – Boulder, CO; Las Cruses, NM
April 27, 2012 – Rosendale, NY

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