Local filmmaker Dave McLaughlin and producer and actor Lance Green offered students at Arlington High School a prescreening of the film "On Broadway" on March 7. Boston Magazine has called the film, which had its premiere March 12, “the next 'Good Will Hunting'.”  

This film is tells the story of local carpenter Jack O’Toole (played by Jamaica Plain native and former New Kid on the Block Joey McIntyre), who decides to write a play about his dead uncle. Believing that his story can create a new beginning with his embittered father (Sean Lawlor, who played in “Braveheart”), Jack puts the play up on the only stage he can afford – in the back room of a pub on a little neighborhood street called Broadway.

McLaughlin and Green will meet with students and talk about filmmaking and the role of drama as a way to look at and build community. Students at Arlington High School who have studied film as well as Irish literature are thrilled to interact with these authentic filmmakers.

“There’s not a single false note anywhere in this movie,” says actor Mike O’Malley.  “It gets Boston right – and that’s not easy to do.”

"On Broadway" is expected to have its theatrical release in and around Boston on March 14 after its premiere March 12 at the Regal Fenway Stadium 13 in Boston as a charity screening and auction with proceeds to benefit The Joey Fund.

On March 14 "On Broadway" will be released to the Somerville Theatre, Dedham Community Theater, West Newton Cinema and Sharon Cinemas 8, and in mid-April to the Capitol Theater in Arlington.

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