This Wednesday: Screening & Red Carpet Celebration for the movie Copperhead

Don't miss the Cinematic Event of the Season: Come to a special advanced screening of the Civil War movie Copperhead and a private red carpet reception this Wednesday, May 1.

The movie screening fundraiser takes place at 6:30pm at the Bow Tie Cinemas New Canaan Playhouse, 89 Elm Street.  Director Maxwell will introduce the movie starring Billy Campbell, Peter Fonda, Augustus Prew and Angus Macfadyen. 

Immediately following the screening, enjoy a private red carpet celebration at Le Pain Quotidien, located just steps away from the theatre at 81 Elm Street.  From 8:30-10:30pm guests will meet and mingle with the movie’s director, screenwriter and producers while enjoying wine, beer, artisan cheeses, antipasti, petite sweets and more.

Space is limited.  Movie only tickets: $50 per person, Movie + Red Carpet Reception: $100 per person.  To purchase your tickets visit www.nchistory.org or come to the Historical Society at 13 Oenoke Ridge Road in New Canaan. 

Copperhead is unlike any Civil War movie to date. It is a film of the war at home – of a family ripped apart by war, of fathers set against sons and daughters, of a community driven to an appalling act of vengeance against a man who insists on exercising his right to free speech during wartime. A story of the violent passions and burning feuds that set ablaze the homefront during the Civil War, Copperhead the movie is also a timeless and deeply moving examination of the price of dissent, the place of the individual amidst the hysteria of wartime, and the terrible price of war – a cost measured not in dollars but in fractured families, broken loves, and men dead before their time.

Funds raised from the event will support restoration of the Hanford-Silliman House Museum, the family home of Justus Silliman, a New Canaan private in the Civil War.