Mel Brooks Comedy “High Anxiety”

Laugh along with “High Anxiety” as HippCinema closes its Mel Brooks Fest honoring the filmmaker’s centennial milestone. The 1977 comedy stars Brooks as Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke, the new director of the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous, who finds himself accused of murder while confronting his own high anxiety. The Hitchcock-inspired comedy also stars Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman and Dick Van Patten. Sponsored in part by Visit Gainesville, Alachua County.