It Can’t Happen Here
May 1, 2026 to May 17, 2026
A cautionary dark satire about the fragility of democracy and how fascism can take hold even in the land of liberty. IT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE follows the ascent of a demagogue who becomes president of the United States by promising to return the country to greatness. Witnessing the new president’s tyranny from the sidelines is a liberal, middle-class newspaper editor from Vermont who trusts the system will fix itself—until he ends up in a prison camp. Sinclair Lewis’ eerily prescient 1935 novel gets a fresh update in this adaptation that examines what brings a citizenry to the point of sacrificing its own freedom and how a courageous few can prevail to overcome the fall.
Based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis
Adapted by Tony Taccone & Bennett S. Cohen
Directed by Ed Trujillo
It Can’t Happen Here
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Pleasant Hill, California 94523