托尼奖获奖百老汇音乐剧《来自远方》(Come from Away)将被改编成电影,The Mark Gordon Company投资制片,原作者、词曲家Irene Sankoff和David Hein将编写剧本,剧版导演克里斯托弗·阿什利也确定执导影片。设定在9·11事件之后,38架飞机意外迫降加拿大纽芬兰与拉布拉多省的小镇Gander,7000名旅客滞留。在被迫停飞的处境下,小镇的居民热情地欢迎并接纳了所有旅客,他们的慷慨善良与恐怖袭击形成了鲜明的对比。文化相互碰撞,人们情绪高涨,不安感转变为信任,音乐响彻深夜,感激最终形成了长久的友谊。 该音乐剧大获成功,评论极佳,获7项托尼奖提名,最终获得最佳音乐剧导演奖。
Facing a long winter of lockdown and combating a bad case of writer’s block, filmmaker Eric agrees to get a dog with his girlfriend Allie. A modern couple – vegan, ethical, millennial, neurotic – much research and negotiation leads to the arrival of Milly, a rescue from the Dominican Republic. This sets off a riotous chain of new challenges on how to best deal with this addition to the household. As Eric contends with a sinister dog-training programme, his introspection spills out onto his film work, with poor Allie and Milly taken along for the ride. The couple each pursue their own deepheld individual questions surrounding trust, purpose and roots, while wrestling with the idea of what it means to be a modern family. Milly, in the meantime, has a lot on her paws with these two!
Part rom-com, part rescue-dog story, part autofiction, part self-indictment, part family scrapbook, this debut feature was made with remarkable economy and displays a disquieting amount of (often hilarious) emotional authenticity. Filmmaker Ben Petrie and creative collaborator Grace Glowicki play the young couple and in doing so, capture nothing less than what it means to be human.