Kate Plays Christine

Kate Plays Christine
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRobert Greene
Written byRobert Greene
Produced bySusan Bedusa
StarringKate Lyn Sheil
CinematographySean Price Williams
Edited byRobert Greene
Music byKeegan DeWitt
Production
companies
  • Faliro House
  • 4th Row Films
  • Prewar Cinema
Distributed byGrasshopper Film
Release dates
  • January 24, 2016 (2016-01-24) (SFF)
  • August 24, 2016 (2016-08-24)
Running time
112 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$25,564[2]

Kate Plays Christine is a 2016 American documentary film written and directed by Robert Greene. It follows actress Kate Lyn Sheil's preparation for the role of Christine Chubbuck, a newscaster who committed suicide on live television in 1974, for a fictitious film. It is one of the two films about Chubbuck that premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, the other being Christine.[3]

  1. ^ "Kate Plays Christine". British Board of Film Classification. August 12, 2016. Retrieved May 27, 2017.
  2. ^ "Kate Plays Christine". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
  3. ^ Halperin, Moze (October 25, 2016). "The Writers of 'Christine' and 'Kate Plays Christine' on One of the Strangest Cinematic Coincidences in Recent Memory". Flavorwire. Retrieved May 27, 2017.