Glenn Whipp: What's going to pop big at Sundance? We have thoughts
LOS ANGELES — Jordan Peele had trudged through the waist-deep snow to the Park City Library for a "secret" midnight screening of his directorial debut, "Get Out," a secret in name only, as everyone sitting in the theater — including Malia Obama, then an intern at the Weinstein Co. — knew what they were about to see.
Though, of course, as the lights dimmed, no one had any idea just how sharp and powerful Peele's 2017 horror satire about American racism was or that it would go on to become a cultural phenomenon.
"This was my first movie, and I just wanted it to land with the audience,". "So I was thinking about the people in the theater, how — and if — they'd react to what they were seeing on screen."
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