A little less than three years as U.S. president and JFK left a mark that the many who followed looked up to, but it his extra martial exploits that are very much a part of that legacy. Screen Media Films has acquired director William Sten Olsson’s An American Affair, which peaks through the windows (Hallam Foe-style) to describe how one person’s understanding of the president might be skewed. Screen picked up the worldwide rights to the picture and will release the pic on February 27th in New York, Los Angeles, and Washington DC.
Formerly known as the oddly titled “Boy of Pigs” (a play on words that references the Bay of Pigs invasion and a coined term referring to men as pigs) this is set in 1963, the film draws on America’s enduring fascination with the Camelot years and the Kennedy dynasty. In the swirl of glamour and intrigue that turned President John F. Kennedy’s Washington into Camelot, An American Affair traces the story of a young teenager (played by Cameron Bright) who has an inside view of JFK’s clandestine affair with his neighbor, a mysterious woman (played by Gretchen Mol) with ties to the CIA, in the aftermath of the infamous Bay of Pigs incident.
