2011 Sundance Predictions: Julian Farino’s The Oranges

#35. The Oranges – Julian Farino

Positioned right after top vote getter The Beaver in the annual Black List (2008), Julian Farino’s The Oranges should be another big ticket sales item in the Premieres category. Pic stars Leighton Meester, Hugh Laurie, Adam Brody, Catherine Keener, Alia Shawkat, Oliver Platt, Allison Janney, Tim Guinee and Sam Rosen.

Written by Jay Reiss and Ian Helfer, the Ostroff and Walling families are best friends and neighbors, living across the street from each other on Orange Drive. Prodigal daughter Nina Ostroff (Meester) returns home for Thanksgiving dinner after a five-year absence, newly broken up with her fiancé Ethan (Rosen). Rather than developing an interest in the successful son of her neighbors, Toby Walling (Brody), which would please both families, it’s her parents’ best friend David Walling (Laurie) that captures Nina’s attention. When the romantic attraction between Nina and David becomes too great to ignore, the lives of the two families are thrown into upheaval…

* Producers: Likely Story’s Anthony Bregman, Leslie Urdang and Dean Vanech (Beginners)
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