A question-and-answer session with Dana Altman, producer of the film and a 1988 alumnus of Wayne State College, will follow the 4 p.m. screening.
The public is invited to attend a free special screening of Dana Altman’s film “Going for Two” at 4 p.m., Friday, Oct. 30, at The Majestic Theatre in downtown Wayne.
Altman, a 1988 Wayne State mass communication graduate, is the producer of the film. A question-and-answer session with Altman will follow the screening.
The grandson of legendary filmmaker Robert Altman, he grew up immersed in the film industry. In 1989, he founded North Sea Films, Inc. (NSF), an entertainment development company in Omaha. In 1994, Altman joined filmmakers Dan Mirvish and Jon Fitzgerald in co-founding Slamdance, an alternative, grassroots film festival dedicated to supporting independent filmmakers.
Altman’s film credits include “18½ (2021),” “Hide and Bleed (2021),” “Bernard and Huey (2017),” “Growing Cities (2013),” “Sick Birds Die Easy (2013),” “Between Us (2012),” “Lovely, Still (2008),” “The Private Public (2001),” “Kolobos (1999),” and “Omaha: The Movie (1994).”
About “Going for Two”
The first week of junior high starts off with a mystery for 12-year-old Jimmy Moriarty in “Going for Two,” a heartwarming coming-of-age comedy set in football-mad 1980s Omaha. Jimmy (Matthew Lamb) seems to have lost a vital part of his anatomy and doesn’t know where to find it. After doing some research, he discovers he has an undescended testicle, which requires a surgery that his widowed mom, played by Julianne Hough (co-host “Dancing with the Stars”) wouldn’t be able to afford – even if he could find a way to tell her.
Confused and embarrassed, he confesses his dilemma to his best friend, fiery Mary Francis “Frankie” Fitzpatrick (Cora Craver). With everyone around them obsessed with the University of Nebraska’s Cornhuskers football team’s quest to win the Big Eight championship for the second year in a row, they will need to go it alone.
Jimmy decides to “adopt” the Cornhuskers’ legendary coach Tom Osborne as his mentor, facing each new challenge by asking himself, “What would Coach do?” He and Frankie embrace the coach’s famous doctrine of self-reliance and perseverance by launching a series of creative (and potentially illegal) schemes to raise the money he so desperately needs — with hilarious results.