Annual Top Films Lists

Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #14. Alexander Payne’s Nebraska

Published on January 15, 2013

Nebraska

Director: Alexander Payne
Writer(s): Bob Nelson
Producer(s): Bona Fide Productions’ Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa
U.S. Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Cast: Devin Ratray, Bruce Dern, Stacy Keach, Bob Odenkirk, Will Forte

Master of the comedic roadtrip movie (About Schmidt and Sideways), it’ll be nice to see Alexander Payne work on a project that has been on his personal radar for such a while, and with another Dern member – Laura was the lead in Citizen Ruth, and Bruce is the co-lead in this misadventure. Still fresh in our minds, is Payne’s equally-balanced The Descendants.

Gist: An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million dollar Publisher’s Clearing House sweepstakes prize.

Release Date: Still in production, this will be ready in time for Telluride/Venice/TIFF.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).