Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2011: Jacob Aaron Estes’ The Details

#38. The Details

Director/Writer: Jacob Aaron Estes 
Producers: Mark Gordon, Hagai Shaham, Bryan Zuriff
Distributor: Rights Available.

The Gist: It all started with those wretched raccoons. The very morning after Jeff (Maguire) completed his perfect garden with newly laid turf, he wakes up to find it in total disarray, with each strip of grass flipped over as if he had been singled out by some kind of lawn terrorist… And things are not going great with his wife Nealy (Banks) either. They’ve been married 10 years, and have a beautiful 2 year old son, but their marriage is going through a rough patch, and the cracks are starting to show…….(more)

Cast: Tobey Maguire, Elizabeth Banks, Laura Linney, Ray Liotta, Dennis Haysbert and Kerry Washington

List Worthy Reasons…: Now in our second straight year on the Most Anticipated film list (it was #35 last year) , we’ll finally get to see this great ensemble having temper tantrums in a Park City backdrop – same place that introduced us to Mean Creek. Unlike his 2004 film where a group of pre-teens’ troubles fall under the realm of very adult situations, in this drama Estes looks at adults acting very child like. Sundance describes Estes process as an S&M session, “characters to keep digging themselves into deeper moral holes to see if the universe will punish them. The result is a darkly funny meditation on marital malaise.”

Release Date/Status?: Big Sundance premiere this month from where it will be picked up for distribution and released later in the year.