Join us this Friday Nov 8 at 7PM for a
special complimentary screening of
NO PLACE LIKE HOME
Filmed largely in Negril in the early 1970s ‘No Place Like Home’ is Perry Henzell’s sequel to his cult classic ‘The Harder They Come’ which was released in 1972. Broke and unable to afford storage, Henzell asked a friend at Island Records to store the film—the footage was mislabeled in the storage facility and effectively lost. Fast forward over 25 years to 2004, an inventory of storage facilities unearthed 400 reels belonging to Henzell. 15 more years of restoration, reshooting, and editing lay ahead. The film had its world premier at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in August 2019.
The story follows an American woman coming to Jamaica to shoot a TV commercial, but escapes her comfort zone, finds beauty, and rediscovers herself in an unfamiliar place. With extensive Negril footage including scenes shot at Rockhouse, the movie takes place in the once sleepy fishing village as it commercializes. In the opening shots the locals still reign but the wings of the hotel development buzz in the distance. All of this is set amid the waves of political unrest that rocked Jamaica in the ‘70s, as the country struggled to gain its feet after independence from the U.K. The film features a young Grace Jones and Henzell’s original soundtrack from Bob Marley, Etta James, Carly Simon, Toots and The Maytals, Marcia Griffiths, Desmond Dekker, Ernest Ranglin, and The Heptones,
Justine Henzell, who appears in the film as a child in a cameo role will be presenting the movie. Justine worked alongside her father to produce it before he passed away in 2006.
