Julianne Moore steals the show in Jesse Eisenberg's community theater comedy The Debut

Julianne Moore steals the show in Jesse Eisenberg's community theater comedy The Debut

Thirty years ago, Christopher Guest’s Waiting For Guffman satirized the experience of putting together a community theater show and the larger-than-life personalities who foster the performing arts a world away from the bright lights of Broadway. Much in the same vein, writer-director Jesse Eisenberg’s The Debut occurs on the local stage of a small suburban town, where a housewife is finally going to pursue her dreams of singing in a musical—and…

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