Making its world premiere at the DOC NYC film festival on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019, at 6:35 p.m. at the SVA Theatre (333 W. 23rd St, New York, NY 10011) is “Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back.”
Returning to New York City from Nov. 6–15, 2019, DOC NYC is America’s largest documentary film festival. Tickets are $19 for adults, $17 for seniors and children — available at
https://www.docnyc.net/film/maurice-hines-bring-them-back/.
Following the screening there will be a Q&A with Tony-nominated entertainer Maurice Hines and director John Carluccio.
The documentary was directed and produced by John Carluccio. Debbie Allen and Charles Randolph-Wright are Executive Producers.
The 94-minute documentary is a portrait of the charismatic song-and-dance man from his tap-dancing childhood to today. Maurice and friends — including Chita Rivera, Mercedes Ellington and Debbie Allen — tell tales from his seven-decade career (from Broadway productions to Hollywood films such as Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Cotton Club”). The film also sheds light on Maurice’s loving yet difficult relationship with his superstar brother, the late Gregory Hines. Ever battling the challenges of being a gay, black man in showbiz, Maurice shares his own story with humor and grace.
Stylistically, archives of the late Gregory Hines haunt the film, similar to how he casts a shadow (and light) over Maurice’s daily life. Art imitates life, as uncanny clips are strategically interwoven into the story. The fictional dancing and bickering Williams brothers in Coppola’s The Cotton Club mirror the real-life tension and break-up/make-up of the Hines duo.
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