Phyllis and Harold, a film written and produced by their daughter Cindy Kleine, opens tomorrow at selected theaters in Los Angeles.
It is the consolidation of material gathered in a span of 12 years, while a real daughter interviewed and observed her real-life parents. Phyllis and Harold were married for 59 years. Each of them summarized their life together in entirely different ways.
Phyllis and Harold at times aches in one’s heart, because the characters say things the audience has certainly heard before or can relate to. It is a movie about raw humanity – about decisions that people make that sometimes turn into sacrifices, about the odd experience of aging, and about real love versus the idea of love.
Cindy Kleine followed her parents’ story to the end. She supplemented the discussions with her folks with thousands of slides taken by her father between 1939 and 2000. She likewise used home movies made by her grandfather in the 1930s and 1940s.
The executive producer for the film is Kleine’s husband Andre Gregory. The music score, by Bruce Odland, includes the standard “Besame” and Silvio Rodriguez’s “Te Amare.”
Phyllis and Harold is 84 minutes long. It opens tomorrow, Friday April 9, at Laemmle’s Music Hall 3 (Beverly Hills) and Laemmle’s Fallbrook 7 (West Hills). More about the film at http://www.phyllisandharold.com
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