Tribeca 2010: Dahan’s My Own Love Song Added, Freakonomics Finally Receiving World Premiere

With such strong ties to both the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals, it comes as no surprise that Alex Gibney and co. will use Tribeca as the launching pad for the world premiere to a docu film whose release is long overdo. Freakonomics will serve as the closing Gala premiere to the festival, and I believe it could find a buyer from such a showcase.

Still a festival that is looking to carve out an identity, a difficult task when you consider that the hipper SXSW fest plays out in March and the heavyweight Cannes is in May are fests that attract the high profile titles, in an effort to add a little bit more glitter Tribeca will show a special presentation of My Own Love Song – a film that I have zero inclination in wanting to see (you’ll see why in the trailer below). Also added is a preem for Gary Winick’s Letters to Juilet – the theatrical release date almost coincides with the fest’s dates. After the jump you’ll find the synopsis for the 

Jane (Zellweger) and Joey (Whitaker) couldn’t be any more different. She’s a matter of fact, take charge kind of lady who never needs help from anyone, though she’s been paralyzed from the legs down after a bad car accident. He’s a lovable oddball who turns to angels and ghosts to get by day to day. Behind Jane’s tough exterior, though, hides a woman who’s also been emotionally paralyzed, incapable of confronting her former life as a singer and mother. Joey convinces Jane to embark on a cross country road trip, where they stumble upon one hilarious disaster after another. When Joey finds out her son invited his mother to his first communion after all these years, he refuses to let her continue hiding from life. The journey takes an unexpected turn, and its destination becomes a poignant reunion with her long lost son, where she’s finally able to sing the love song she’s been writing in her head for years.

Written by Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, “Freakonomics” has sold more than 3 million copies by using economic theories to analyze issues. Take five of the most successful documentary directors working in Hollywood today, match them to the most compelling chapters from a worldwide best selling piece of non fiction and you have Freakonomics the movie. Freakonomics is economic detective work, social theory and investigative journalism all at their most compelling and it is deeply unorthodox in its approach. Ever wondered what sumo wrestlers and Chicago school teachers had in common? Oscar winner Alex Gibney will show you the way. Tune in to see Morgan Spurlock prove the link between our names and our financial destiny. Witness Oscar nominated Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing debunk even the most basic assumptions about what it is that really makes a good parent. And watch Sundance winner Eugene Jarecki prove the link between the legalisation of abortion and the reduction of crime in 1990’s America. Ever inventive and not for the faint of heart, Freakonomics the movie is sure to build on the international success of the book.