THE CIDER HOUSE RULES Michael Caine Retrospective

The Opening Night film of AFI FEST 1999 and John Irving’s adaptation of his own best selling novel, THE CIDER HOUSE RULES is brought to the screen by celebrated filmmaker Lasse Hallstrom.

Central to this story set during World War II is Homer (Tobey Maguire), a young man raised in a Maine orphanage, where the ether-sniffing Dr. Larch (Michael Caine in a performance that earned him an Academy Award™) rules with benevolent grace while performing safe but illegal abortions: To expand his horizons, Homer follows a young couple (Charlize Theron and Paul Rudd) to do fieldwork on an apple farm, where his innocent eyes are opened to the good and evil of the world-and to the realization that not all rules are steadfast in all situations.