“Don’t Talk!” – Alamo Drafthouse PSA with ‘The Rule of Jenny Pen’ Stars John Lithgow & Geoffrey Rush

“Don’t Talk!” – Alamo Drafthouse PSA with ‘The Rule of Jenny Pen’ Stars John Lithgow & Geoffrey Rush

How often have you wanted to turn to a rude movie patron and yell “Will you shut the fuck up?” John Lithgow does just that to his The Rule of Jenny Pen co-star Geoffrey Rush in a PSA for Alamo Drafthouse. In the humorous clip below, Lithgow performs Shakespeare’s Richard II while Rush is nuance to society who can’t stay off his phone in the theater. Praised by Stephen King as “one of the best movies I’ve seen this year,” The Rule of Jenny Pen hi…

John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush star in 'The Rule of Jenny Pen' coming Friday - The Super Powered Fancast

Arrogant Judge Stefan Mortensen (Rush) suffers a near-fatal stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed and confined to a retirement home. Resistant to the staff and distant from his friendly roommate, Mortensen soon clashes with seemingly gentle resident Dave Crealy (Lithgow) who secretly terrorizes the home with a sadistic game called “The Rule of Jenny Pen” while wielding his dementia doll as an instrument of cruelty. What begins as childish torm…

Grow Old Along With Me

The Rule of Jenny Pen by Hope Madden In 2021, Kiwi filmmaker James Ashcroft made his feature debut with the lean and unforgiving thriller Coming Home in the Dark. While his follow up discards the taut terror of a road picture in favor of lunacy and a hand puppet, The Rule of Jenny Pen mines similar tensions. Vulnerability, institutional ignorance, helplessness, bullying—Jenny Pen comes at it from a different angle, but the damage done bears a tr…