Remember You Are One
THE SUBSTANCE
Screening & Discussion
Friday, March 7, 2025 | 7:00pm
Little Theatre 1 (240 East Ave.)
Doors open at 6:30pm
Regular ticket prices
Tickets available online in advance, at our box office during open hours, or at the door (if available).
• With a POST-FILM DISCUSSION with best-selling author RACHEL HARRISON
• AMPERSAND BOOKS will be on-site selling a selection of books. Support your local indie booksellers!
Demi Moore gives a career-best performance as Elisabeth Sparkle, a former A-lister past her prime and suddenly fired from her fitness TV show. Drawn to the opportunity presented by a mysterious new drug — THE SUBSTANCE — all it takes is one injection and she is reborn, temporarily, as the gorgeous, twenty-something Sue (Margaret Qualley).
The only rule? Time needs to be split: exactly one week in one body, then one week in the other. No exceptions. A perfect balance. What could go wrong?
Deliriously entertaining and ruthlessly satirical, Coralie Fargeat’s Cannes sensation turns toxic beauty culture inside out with a be-careful-what-you-wish-for fable for the ages. Explosive, provocative and twisted, The Substance has been on everyone’s lips since its September release, and propelled Demi Moore into the forefront of the 2025 awards-season discussion.
🏆 Nominated for 5 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Director, Actress, Original Screenplay, and Makeup
Rated R | 2 hour 20 mins | Horror, Dark Comedy | 2024
UK, USA, France | English
Written and Directed by Coralie Fargeat
Meet the Panelist
Rachel Harrison is the USA Today Bestselling author of SO THIRSTY, BLACK SHEEP, SUCH SHARP TEETH, CACKLE, and THE RETURN, which was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. Her short fiction has appeared in Guernica, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, as an Audible Original, and in her debut story collection BAD DOLLS. Her new novel PLAY NICE is out September 9th 2025 from Berkley.
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