Standard Time
(World Premiere)

Director: Robert Cary

Cast: Andrew McCarthy, Isabel Rose, Cameron Bancroft, Alix Korey, Ilana Levine, Eartha Kitt

Country: U.S.
Year: 2002
Running Time: 99 min
Format: 35mm

Billie Golden (Isabel Rose) dreams of a world where she is a cabaret singer in glamorous nightclubs. Dressed as Audrey Hepburn or Rita Hayworth, she tries to recreate that fantasy world, but in reality she lives in a dilapidated row house in Queens with her widowed alcoholic mother and performs at a third-rate lounge. When even that gig becomes jeopardized, Billie struggles with the decision of whether to continue to follow her dreams or to settle for a safer life.

To complicate matters further, at the same time two men enter her life. One is Greg (Cameron Bancroft), an old high school heartthrob who is now a successful corporate lawyer. The other is Elliot (Andrew McCarthy), a bohemian musician. Torn between two lives and torn between two men, Billie must make a choice (with a little help from Eartha Kitt.)

Filmed in a style that recalls the era that Billie dreams about, Standard Time is a throwback in the best sense of the word. Mixing musical numbers with romance, comedy, and drama, it is refreshing in its nostalgia, referencing not only musical standards, but classic movies as well. Standard Time is the story of a woman looking for the place where dreams and reality intersect, if such a place exists at all.

--Dan Krovich

Presented By: Robert Cary and Isabel Rose

Robert Cary makes his feature film directorial debut with Standard Time, which he also co-wrote. He has extensive theater experience including serving as assistant director of the recent Broadway revival The Rainmaker as well as The Waverly Gallery off-Broadway. He has also appeared in several theatrical productions both as an actor and a dancer, including being featured in the Broadway production of Carousel and appearing off-Broadway in numerous plays and musicals including Paul Rudnick's The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told. Star and co-writer, Isabel Rose, graduated from Yale University summa cum laude and went directly to The Williamstown Theater Festival where she was a member of their non-equity company for three summers, participating in such productions as A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Marat Sade, and Threepenny Opera. She also performed Personality, a one-woman show. Theater credits include the national tour of Six Degrees of Separation and Beau Jest, in which she played the lead both off-Broadway and at the Ford Theater.