Julia Stiles Film Shot in Somerville to Re-Air in February
If you missed the premier of "The Makeover," which takes place in Boston and brought film crews to Somerville, there's still time to catch it on TV.
Oops. We missed it. Or at least I did. "The Makeover," a Hallmark Hall of Fame film starring Julia Stiles that brought film crews to Somerville's Hudson Street in September, debuted on the ABC television network on Sunday. Luckily for all of us, there's still time to see the made-for-TV movie. (See below.) Based on George Bernard Shaw's play, Pygmalion, the film features Hannah Higgins, played by Stiles, an education consultant who runs for Congress but whose "elitism turns off Boston voters, big-time," according to a description of the film. Instead, she and a colleague recruit Elliot Doolittle (played by David Walton), a popular beer vender "whose thick South Boston accent masks considerable intelligence," the description says. It …
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Joe Beckmann
8:55 am on Saturday, February 2, 2013
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