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Ira & Abby Out with Magnolia

Published on May 14, 2007

The deals still fly at Cannes as 2929 Entertainment's sub Magnolia Pictures snatches US distribution rights for the latest Jennifer Westfeldt project Ira and Abby. Westfeldt made a name for herself with her 2001 work Kissing Jessica Stein, which she penned and headlined.

The actress/writer is best known for her television appearances, enlists the talent of many of her TV cohorts to co-star in her latest work. Ira and Abby is another nearly sole Westfeldt jaunt as she again handles scribe and actor duties, and picks up exec producer for good measure. The pic, helmed by Robert Cary (Save Me), focuses on a neurotic New Yorker (tv vet Chris Messina) who falls in love with free spirit Abby (Westfeldt). The rest of the cast reads like an issue of TV Guide, with Frances Conroy, Judith Light, Robert Klein, Jason Alexander, Fred Willard, Chris Parnell and Darrell Hammond rounding out the ensemble group.

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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).