A SIMPLE MACHINE

<p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><i>A Simple Machine</i> is a deeply human story about economic independence, personal freedom, and the cost of wanting less in a culture built on more. At a time of housing instability, digital saturation, and cultural polarization, Hoffman’s film offers something rare: a grounded, thoughtful counterpoint rooted in the textures, contradictions, and creative resilience of Portland while offering universal resonance in its thematic content.</p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 17px;"><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Inspired by Evan P. Schneider’s novel <i>A Simple Machine, Like the Lever</i> (Propeller Books), a modern cult classic within Pacific Northwest literary circles, the film follows Nick Allander (Richard Blackmon), a recent college graduate drowning in debt who quietly dismantles his own life in pursuit of radical frugality and self-reliance, but without telling the woman he loves.</p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 17px;"><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">What begins as a private experiment in minimalism becomes a reckoning with identity, responsibility, and the meaning of freedom in a market-driven world.</p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 17px;"><br></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Filmmakers in attendance!</p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><br>Tickets are $10 advance, $12 day of show.</p>ComedyPT1H37M2026-11-22USen
Richard Blackmon
Gabriella Quezada
Brad Carter
Mark Alan Hoffman
Michelle Damis
Alyssa Roehrenbeck
Tyson Wisbrock
Mike Lay
A SIMPLE MACHINE"A SIMPLE MACHINE"

Showtimes

November 22, 6:30 pm

kigginstheatre.com