Starting tonight, downtown Manhattan will be packed with a mix of independent filmmakers, A-list actors and New York cinephiles psyched for the 10th anniversary of our very own mini-Sundance. Robert DeNiro founded the Tribeca Film Festival in 2001 in an effort to bring vibrancy and celebration to the downtown community after the neighborhood was abandoned during 9/11. The festival runs from April 20 – May 1 and will feature the debut of 93 films (both indie and studio), live concerts, free panel discussions, Q&As with actors and filmmakers, street festivals and even re-create the drive-in movie experience with outdoor screenings of Fame and Muppets Take Manhattan at the World Financial Center Plaza.
Among the films making their world premiere is The Perfect Family, co-written by Paula Goldberg and Claire V. Riley and directed by Anne Renton. You might recognize Paula for screenwriting the supercute lesbian romantic comedy Out at the Wedding, starring Cathy DeBuono, . [FYI, Julie Goldman and Jill Bennett also make cameos, so you should probs watch that online today.]
Anyway, The Perfect Family is a dramedy revolving around a devoutly Catholic wife and mother (played by Kathleen Turner) who has been nominated for “Catholic Woman of the Year.” Emily Deschanel plays her daughter, a successful lawyer who is five months pregnant and about to marry her girlfriend played by Angelique Cabral. As Deschanel’s character struggles to come out to her mom, the son (Jason Ritter) has just left his wife for an older woman while her husband is a recovering alcoholic. Through all this, Turner goes about trying to prove she has the “perfect” family for the board’s final approval.
The Perfect Family will play four times over the next week [April 24, 26, 27 and 29] in hopes of finding a distributor and theatrical release.
This film sounds great! Hope it gets picked up!
I hope this movie gets picked up as I can’t wait to see it!
kathleen turner will be amazzzinnng in this
Emily deschanel playing a lesbian? be still my heart!
I really need to see this like, yesterday.
I just realized I’ll be in New York for a conference during the Tribeca Film Festival… any other recommendations? Or general gay-lady things I should do while I’m in NYC?
track down Bette and Tina and ask them who the f*ck killed Jenny Schecter!..kidding, they’re fictional…
I f*ckin killed Jenny!!
;)
Sounds like a great movie, I want to see it so bad
Trust me. You do not need to see this movie. The lesbian subplot is so regressive it’ll make your head spin. The rest of the film is so stagnant it’ll make you want to eat your arm. My best advice, if you must, do so somewhere it can be turned off.