Senator Not in the ‘Greatest’ Position

Senator has waited a while now before breaking the bread, delaying the release of their first batch of films until 2009. While they have been inactive in the release of their films, they’ve been very active in preparing for the year ahead, now scooping up the rights to their second Sundance pic. Today the trades announce the acquisition of a picture that the co. will probably close out the year with. The U.S. distributor have added another adult comtempo fair in Shana Feste‘s The Greatest, a picture that irritated the hell out of me, but faired well with chief film critics including Variety’s Todd McCarthy who thought that “Feste displays impressive control over all aspects of her feature debut, which deals in a nuanced manner with the different ways those affected by the loss deal with it.”

Starring Pierce Brosnan, Susan Sarandon and the “it” girl of the year in Carey Mulligan, the melodrama with hallmark card trimmings centers on a young girl (Mulligan) who throws a family into chaos as they try to get over the loss of their teenage son, Bennett. Michael Shannon plays a friend of Bennett’s; Brosnan and Sarandon play the grieving parents.