CineGrand Takes “The Hundred-Foot Journey”!

Ellsworth, Maine - The Grand announces “The Hundred-Foot Journey” as the next title in its CineGrand series of the best recent films, many of them nominated for this year's Academy and Golden Globe Awards, screening on Tuesday, February 10 at 7:30 pm.  The film is sponsored by The Salt Box Restaurant in Hancock.  Additional Grand films are available for sponsorship by community members and businesses, with sponsorships still available with a $200 donation to The Grand. Contact The Grand for more information. Ticket prices for CineGrand films are for general admission seating and are $7 for adults, $6 for seniors and students, and $5 for Grand members.

Hassan Kadam (Manish Dayal) is a culinary ingénue with the gastronomic equivalent of perfect
pitch. Displaced from their native India, the Kadam family, led by Papa (Om Puri), settles in the quaint village of Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val in the south of France. Filled with charm, it is both picturesque and elegant –  the ideal place to settle down and open an Indian restaurant, the Maison Mumbai. That is, until the chilly chef proprietress of Le Saule Pleureur, a Michelin starred, classical French restaurant run by Madame Mallory (Academy Award®-winner Helen Mirren), gets wind of it. Her icy protests against the new Indian restaurant a hundred feet from her own escalate to all out war between the two establishments – will Hassan’s passion for French haute cuisine and for Mme. Mallory’s enchanting sous chef, Marguerite (Charlotte Le Bon), combine with his mysteriously delicious talent to weave magic between their two cultures and imbue Saint-Antonin with the flavors of life that even Mme. Mallory cannot ignore? Mirren's performance was nominated for this year's Golden Globe® for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical.

Take “The Hundred-Foot Journey” at The Grand on Tuesday February 10th at 7:30 pm and see the film Chris Nashawaty of Entertainment Weekly calls “soothing, easily digested comfort food. Which is to say it's the perfect recipe for a filmmaker like [Lasse] Hallström ('Chocolat').“

For more information on this or other Grand events, including on February 17th at 7:30 pm the next CineGrand selection –  “A Most Wanted Man,” a smart, subtle and steadily absorbing adaptation of a novel from the director of “The American” comes and spy-fiction master John Le Carre (“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” and “The Constant Gardener”) and featuring Phillip Seymour Hoffman in one of his last – and most acclaimed– roles with Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright, and Willem Dafoe, –  please call the box office at 207-667-9500 or visit The Grand website at www.grandonline.org or follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Grand-Auditorium/112755987339