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Magnet feels ‘Special’ about 2 year old Sundance selection

Published on February 15, 2008

Wow. A full two years after premiering in the 2006 edition of Sundance film festival, the little picture that could will be receiving the light of day in theaters via Magnolia pictures’ newst label. The company has been on a tear as off late – filling up the slate for their newest distribution arm: Magnet Releasing (check out the complete slate for the year ahead here).

Directed by Hal Haberman and Jeremy Passmore, Special (which will receive a summer release) is a comedy for those who have always wanted to be a superhero – this sees Les Franken (Michael Rapaport) lead a painfully
unremarkable life as a metermaid until he enrolls in a drug study for an
experimental anti-depressant. An unexpected side effect of the drug convinces
Les he is developing special powers and must quit his job to answer his new
calling in life… Superhero.

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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).