The Portrait

Hollywood superstars Lauren Bacall and Gregory Peck are dynamic in this light and energetic performance. Mags Church (Cecilia Peck, Torn Apart) is an aspiring artist about to get her first Manhattan gallery showing. But she needs to return home and complete an unfinished portrait of her parents, Fanny (Bacall, to Have and Have Not) and Gardner (Peck, Academy Award winner, Best Actor, to Kill a Mockingbird, 1962). Their lifelong-strained relationship surfaces when Mags finds her parents have sold their house without telling her! Things get worse. Fanny and Gardner won't sit still for their portrait - making it clear they don't take Mags' career seriously. Frustrated and furious, Mags is already packed when Gardner's disappearance changes the family picture forever. Directed by Arthur Penn, three-time Best Director Oscar nominee for the Miracle Worker, 1962; Bonnie and Clyde, 1967; and Alice's Restaurant, 1969.