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2012 Sundance Predictions: Phil Dorling’s Predisposed

If everything works out as planned, it’ll be deja-vu for Philip Dorling and Melissa Leo again as Predisposed, the 2009 accepted short film with Leo playing the character of Penny has been elongated into Predisposed…a drama that might be this year’s Down to the Bone for its mother battling addiction portions and which happens to include Jesse Eisenberg and Tracy Morgan. This should be a strong contender for a U.S Dramatic Comp spot at the fest this year.

Eric Lavallée

Published on November 11, 2011

#50. Predisposed – Phil Dorling

If everything works out as planned, it’ll be deja-vu for Philip Dorling and Melissa Leo again as Predisposed, the 2009 accepted short film with Leo playing the character of Penny (see pic above) has been elongated into Predisposed…a drama that might be this year’s Down to the Bone for its mother battling addiction portions and which happens to include Jesse Eisenberg and Tracy Morgan. This should be a strong contender for a U.S Dramatic Comp spot at the fest this year.

Gist: Based on the short film, this a drama focused a drug addicted mother (Melissa Leo) and her son (Jesse Eisenberg) as she prepares to enter rehab and he readies himself for an interview at Juilliard.

Producers: Ron Nyswaner, Neda Armian (Rachel Getting Married), Brice Dal Farra, Claude Dal Farra and , Lauren Munsch and Peter Sterling (Peter and Vandy)
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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).