Midas Man

Post-screening discussion with director Joe Stephenson and writer Brigit Grant at all screenings.

The seismic impact of the Beatles on popular culture continues to reverberate 60 years after they took The Ed Sullivan Show by storm in February 1964. Yet that revelatory TV appearance never would have taken place—and the band may never have been discovered at all—if not for Brian Epstein, the owner of a furniture and record store with an eye for style and an ear for music, who happened upon the eventual “Fab Four” at Liverpool’s Cavern Club in 1961 and would go on to become the Beatles’ manager until 1967. Epstein summons a mythic stature himself: Jewish and gay, Epstein was an eternal outsider in British culture before dying at age 32 of an accidental drug overdose. Joe Stephenson’s empathetic biopic, written by Brigit Grant and starring Jacob Fortune-Lloyd (The Queen’s Gambit), tells Epstein’s story with style and compassion. The outstanding supporting cast includes Jonah Lees as John Lennon, Blake Richardson as Paul McCartney, Emily Watson and Eddie Marsan as Epstein’s parents, and Jay Leno as Ed Sullivan.

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