‘That’s Life!’ With Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton

As the yearlong retrospective honoring Julie Andrews winds down, Sag Harbor Cinema will host Andrews and her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton, to discuss “That’s Life!,” a film in which they both star and which was directed by Andrews’s husband, writer/director Blake Edwards. The screening, which will take place at 6 p.m. on Thursday, June 29, will feature a rare 35mm print of the film.

Edwards gathered a bigger than usual number of friends and family to appear in what may be his most personal film, shot with a nonunion crew in the beachfront Malibu home he shared with Andrews at that time. Andrews stars alongside her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton, and step-daughter, Jennifer Edwards. Jack Lemmon played Andrews’s successful architect husband alongside his real-life son, Chris Lemmon, who played their son. The script, which is attributed to both Edwards and his psychoanalyst, Milton Wexler, was largely improvised from detailed character descriptions.

“‘That’s Life’ is the last film Julie Andrews and Blake Edwards did together. It is also their most overtly autobiographical — a brilliant mix of a home movie and Hollywood glam, and the perfect example of a unique creative collaboration at once extremely personal, artistically innovative, beautiful to look at, deeply moving and a lot of fun,” says Sag Harbor Cinema Founding Artistic Director, Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan.

The story follows Harvey Fairchild, who grows progressively despondent at his upcoming 60th birthday. Meanwhile, unbeknown to her family, his wife, Gillian, deals with a medical scare and the prospect of a risky throat surgery. Full of Edwards’s signature dark humor, the film offers a heartfelt, insightful look at the struggles of creative life and domesticity. “That’s Life!” was the final film collaboration between Andrews and Edwards before his death in 2010.

“Julie and Blake,” the exhibition inspired by The Worlds of Julie Andrews retrospective, remains open on the cinema’s third floor until July 5. Entry is free and open to the public during the cinema’s operating hours. Tickets for the screening are available for purchase on the cinema’s website, sagharborcinema.org. Sag Harbor Cinema is at 90 Main Street, Sag Harbor.