Monday-Wednesday, May 30-June 1, 7 pm
Thalian Hall Main Stage
Wednesday, June 1, 4 pm
The Ruth & Bucky Stein Theatre
Through remote surveillance and on-the-ground intel, Colonel Katherine Powell (Helen Mirren), a UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.” But as American pilot Steve Watts (Aaron Paul) is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone triggering an international dispute, reaching the highest levels of US and British government, over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare. (Rated R, 1 hour 42 minutes)
“This is the kind of intelligent, thought-provoking mainstream film that's in danger of becoming extinct. Eye in the Sky is miles above the average multiplex flick.”- Calvin Wilson, St.Louis Post-Dispatch
“We’re surrounded by surveillance and the threat of violence, and this film asks us to judge the proper balance between liberty and security – and the amount of collateral damage acceptable to maintain the latter.” – Lawrence Toppman, Charlotte Observer