Out of desperation to save his dying wife, Willard Russell turns to prayer which succumbs to sacrifice in a story told across two decades.
Tracy Letts
A child psychologist who suffers from agoraphobia holes up inside her New York home spying on her neighbors until she sees a horrible crime at a house across the way inhabited by a new family.
Already toplined by awards season mainstays Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep, the project at Fox has added Bradley Whitford, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Matthew Rhys, Carrie Coon, Jesse Plemons, David Cross, Alison Brie, Bruce Greenwood, Tracy Letts, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Zach Woods.
Based on the real story of the Pentagon Papers and the Washington Post’s editor and publisher challenging the federal government to publish them in 1971.
The story of a woman who finds herself caught in the crosshairs of a spiraling personal life and career crisis. Christine, always the smartest person in the room at her local Sarasota, Florida news station, feels like she is destined for bigger things and is relentless in her pursuit of an on-air position in a larger market. Disillusioned as her world continues to close in on her, Christine takes a dark and surprising turn.
Inspired by real events, Nate Foster, a young, idealistic FBI agent, goes undercover to take down a radical right-wing terrorist group. The bright up-and-coming analyst must confront the challenge of sticking to a new identity while maintaining his real principles as he navigates the dangerous underworld of white supremacy.
A working class Jewish boy from Newark, New Jersey, travels on scholarship to a small, conservative college in Ohio, thus exempting him from being drafted into the Korean War. But once there, Marcus’s growing infatuation with his beautiful classmate.
Debra Winger and Tracy Letts are in final negotiations to star in The Lovers. The drama hails from A24 who will be financing, producing, and distributing.
About a relationship gone bitterly bad between Michael and Mary, but when they sit down to call it quits they find themselves suddenly, unexpectedly and even awkwardly falling back in love again.
The untold true story behind the meeting between the King of Rock ‘n Roll and President Nixon, resulting in this revealing, yet humorous moment immortalized in the most requested photograph in the National Archives.
Now that the festival’s biggest purchase has been made, things are starting to get a little quieter at Sundance — but that doesn’t mean films aren’t getting snatched up by studios. Acquisitions are still being made on some of the festival’s most buzzed about titles and the first round of awards have been handed out for short filmmaking.
With Sundance just around the corner, we’re bringing you our picks for what’s worth watching at the festival. In the category of U.S. Dramatic Competition, the festival features domestic narrative films from up and coming filmmakers. Here’s a few of those films that caught our attention.
When four outsiders foresaw the global collapse of the economy – they had an idea: The Big Short. Their bold investment leads them into the dark underbelly of modern banking where they must question everyone and everything.
Based on the true story of Christine Chubbuck, a twenty-nine-year-old news anchor that committed suicide on air after writing a story about it in third person, which she intended to be read by a fellow-anchor during the broadcast.
The cast is rounded out for the Elvis/Nixon drama
An old married couple’s relationship is strained when one of them loses his job, forcing them to move in with their separate families.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
An Oklahoma family deals with the aftermath of its patriarch’s unexplained disappearance.
Because oscars you see.
Logline: A poor Midwest family is forced off of their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
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An Oklahoma family deals with the aftermath of its patriarch’s unexplained disappearance.
Pair of thesps join indie drama.
Logline: An old married couple’s relationship is strained when one of them loses his job, forcing them to move in with their separate families.
Logline: Centers on Elvis Presley, who wrote Richard Nixon a six-page letter requesting a visit with the President and suggesting that he be made a “Federal Agent-at-Large” in the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.
Logline: A black comedy about a greedy Texas family that plots the death of their matriarch for the insurance money, but when they find themselves unable to do the deed, they look to hire “Killer Joe” Cooper, a cop who also happens to be a contract killer on the side.
Logline: When four outsiders foresaw the global collapse of the economy – they had an idea: The Big Short. Their bold investment leads them into the dark underbelly of modern banking where they must question everyone and everything.
Logline: An Oklahoma family deals with the aftermath of its patriarch’s unexplained disappearance.
