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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2008: #74 Downloading Nancy

Published on January 29, 2008

#74. Downloading Nancy

Director: Johan Renck
Writers: Pamela Cuming and Lee Ross
Producers: Jason Essex, Igor Kovacevich, David D. Moore, Stephen Onda and Cole Payne
Distributor: Currently Seeking Distribution

The Gist: The film centers on Nancy, an unhappy wife who, instead of committing suicide, meets a man over the Internet and hires him to kill her. Problems arise when they form a relationship.

Fact: Renck – a commercials and music video helmer makes his directorial debut on this project.

See It: Premise sounds delicious. Stylistically this may be interesting as well. Christopher Doyle is the DOP.

Release Date/Status?: Sundance selection will most likely find a way into movie theaters before the year’s end.

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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).