Part of the perks of being an actor who moonlights as a director is being able to call favors upon friends like Pierce Brosnan, Patricia Clarkson and Julianne Moore. Though Stanley Tucci’s last project (Blind Date) barely made a blip on the festival circuit and will, almost two years later, finally be receiving a theatrical release in September, The Hunter should fair a better because Clarkson + Moore + her Laws of Attraction co-star Brosnan will ensure this dramedy receives a little bit more stardust. Brosnan has also worked with Clarkson in Ira Sachs’ Married Life.
To be produced by Tucci, Steve Buscemi and Wren Arthur’s Olive Prods., Irish DreamTime’s Brosnan and Beau St. Clair and River Bend Pictures’ Stan Erdreich.
Scripted by Stanley Tucci directing from his screenplay, this is set amid the aristocracy of New York’s Upper Westchester County, is a coming-of-age story of a middle-aged man, played by Brosnan, who find himself desperately clinging to the vestiges of his once-charmed life and world. I imagine Clarkson or Moore play a spouse or former or current flame.
Apart from Tucci’s eloquently simple in design, yet absorbing directing debut Big Night, which would be your second fav between Blind Date (2009), Joe Gould’s Secret (2000) and The Impostors (1998)?
