Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2010)

OTHER POSTERS

TRIVIA

The film was featured at Tribeca, AFI, the Viennale, and Torino (where it won the Special Jury Prize), GUY AND MADELINE ON A PARK BENCH was ranked #3 on the indieWIRE annual critics’ poll of best undistributed films and was named “The Best Undistributed Film of 2009” by writers from Film Comment, Variety, Time Out New York, and New York Daily News.

COMMUNITY RATING

SPECS

• Project Phase: Completed
• Release Date: 2010-11-05 - NY and/or LA
• Distributor(s): Variance Films
• Film Genre(s): Musical Drama
• Country: United States
• 

SYNOPSIS

Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench is about the often uneasy but always beautiful relationship between music and love. It tells the story of a young Boston jazz musician who drifts from affair to affair, his trumpet the only constant in his life. He makes a promising connection with an aimless introvert named Madeline, who immediately takes to his music. Their relationship is cut short, however, when Guy leaves her for another, more outgoing love interest. The two separated lovers slowly wind their way back into each other’s lives, through a series of romances and near-romances punctuated by song. A full-fledged musical that recasts the MGM tradition in a gritty, near-documentary style, Guy and Madeline stars Jason Palmer, recently named by Down Beat Magazine one of the top twenty-five “Trumpeters for the Future,” and features all original music composed by Justin Hurwitz and recorded by the Bratislava Symphony Orchestra.

RELATED NEWS

For Guy and Madeline, if I had wanted to ri : 2010-11-01

This November, we profile first-time filmmaker Dam : 2010-11-01

 Variance Films announced that they have picked up the film. : 2010-03-10