2011 Sundance Predictions: Jesse Peretz’s My Idiot Brother

#32. My Idiot Brother – Jesse Peretz

What should be a top acquisitions title for the festival, My Idiot Brother would mark the return of director Jesse Peretz who was at the festival with The Château a decade back. What will be a lengthy Eccles world premiere introduction, this stars a huge ensemble cast of Park City regulars in Zooey Deschanel, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Rudd, Rashida Jones, T.J. Miller, Emily Mortimer, Hugh Dancy, Adam Scott, Steve Coogan and Kathryn Hahn. Expect this to be selected for the Premieres section and be quickly picked up by a distributor within hours of premiering.

Scripted by Evgenia Peretz and David Schisgall, Banks, Deschanel and Mortimer star as three sisters whose lives are disrupted by their well-meaning brother (Rudd). Banks portrays Miranda, the career-driven single sister who is about to get her big break in journalism after spending years writing about accessories at a fashion magazine. Deschanel, meanwhile plays Natalie, the artistic hipster and bisexual whose flakiness and lies are getting in the way of moving forward with her caring, responsible girlfriend Cindy (Rashida Jones), who is looking to move the relationship towards a more committed place. And Mortimer is Liz, a Park Slope mom who’s too worried about having the perfect life and children to notice that her marriage is falling apart.

* Producers: Likely Story’s Anthony Bregman and Big Beach’s Peter Saraf
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