Directed by:
Elisabeth SubrinScreenplay:
Elisabeth SubrinCinematography:
Chris DapkinsCast:
Maggie Siff, Dagmara Dominczyk, Khandi Alexander, John Ortiz, Cara Seymour, Laila Robins, Sophie von Haselberg, Eszter Balint, Lucas Near-Verbrugghe (more)Plots(1)
Anna Baskin, in her early forties, is at a crossroads. The Emmy Award-winning actress from a popular TV series has reached an emotional and professional crisis. Burnt out, she depends on Ritalin and her overzealous assistant to get her through each day. She decides to move from Los Angeles to New York, where she hopes to rediscover herself with her old theatre company. The reception she receives after all these years is awkward, however.
She has to start again at the bottom, sleeping on an air mattress and living out of cardboard boxes. Her crisis worsens when she finds out that a playwright friend has included a self-obsessed, suicidal character in his latest play, modelled on Anna. He has also used some personal information she shared with him long ago. A painful confrontation becomes inevitable.
(International Film Festival Rotterdam)
Cast
Maggie Siff
USA
Best movies:
Michael Clayton (2007)
The Short History of the Long Road (2019)
The Sweet Life (2016)
Dagmara Dominczyk
Poland
Best movies:
Jack Strong (2014)
Kinsey (2004)
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2004) (TV movie)
Khandi Alexander
USA
Best movies:
The Corner (2000) (series)
What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)
A Chorus Line (1985)
John Ortiz
USA
Best movies:
American Gangster (2007)
Carlito's Way (1993)
A Dog's Purpose (2017)
Cara Seymour
UK
Best movies:
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
The Music Never Stopped (2011)
Laila Robins
USA
Best movies:
Side Effects (2013)
Eye in the Sky (2015)
Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
Sophie von Haselberg
USA
Best movies:
Frankie & Johnny (1991)
The Wizard of Lies (2017) (TV movie)
Irrational Man (2015)
Eszter Balint
Hungary
Best movies:
New York Beat Movie (1981)
Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
Shadows and Fog (1991)
Lucas Near-Verbrugghe
Best movies:
Our Idiot Brother (2011)
Lazy Eye (2016)
A Birder's Guide to Everything (2013)
Helen Coxe
USA
Best movies:
Puzzle (2018)
Julie & Julia (2009)
The Rebound (2009)
Ana Cruz Kayne (narrator)
Best movies:
Little Women (2019)
Another Earth (2011)
Jerry & Marge Go Large (2022)