Overview
- Join us for an invitation-only Alabama premiere of "The Last Class with Robert Reich", an intimate and thought-provoking documentary about one of America’s most influential educators and public servants. The evening begins with happy hour at 5:00pm and a screening of The Last Class at 6:00pm. Afterwards, stay for a special Q&A featuring filmmakers Heather Kinlaw Lofthouse and Elliot Kirschner along with Senator Doug Jones. We’ll also be celebrating Doug Jones’ birthday, so come raise a glass in his honor!
- The Last Class is a nuanced and deeply personal portrait of master educator Robert Reich teaching his final course and reflecting on a period of immense transformation, personally and globally. It is a love letter to education. The former Secretary of Labor might be famous for his public service, best-selling books, and viral social media posts, but he always considered teaching his true calling. Now, after over 40 years and an extraordinary 40,000 students, Reich is preparing for his last class.Over the course of the film, Reich confronts the impending finality and his own aging with increasing candor, introspection, and, ultimately, emotion. He displays a rawness of feeling he has never shared publicly before. Drawing on his lifetime in politics, he uses his class, “Wealth and Poverty,” to offer us all a deeper look at why inequalities of income and wealth have widened significantly since the late 1970s, and why this poses dangerous risks to our society.
