Festival Predictions

2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: David Posamentier and Geoff Moore’s Better Living Through Chemistry

Published on November 19, 2012

Another pair of first-time directors working from a Blacklist screenplay (number 13 on the 2010) and with a parka friendly clan of four frequent Park City visitors, David Posamentier and Geoff Moore’s debut film Better Living Through Chemistry is perhaps a great fit for the Premieres section. Comedy features Sam Rockwell, Michelle Monaghan (see their on location pic above), Olivia Wilde and Ray Liotta.

Gist: This is about a small-town pharmacist (Rockwell) who is stuck in a loveless marriage and who rediscovers himself through an affair with a trophy wife (Wilde) who introduces him to the pleasures of prescription drugs. Things spin out of control when the affair escalates and the lovers begin plotting to kill the woman’s husband.

Production Co./Producers: Occupant Films’ Felipe Marino and Joe Neurater

Prediction: Premieres section

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available

Related Topics:2013 Sundance Film Festival, Better Living Through Chemistry, David Posamentier, Geoff Moore

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).