A tight-knit cast has completed a touching new movie from home.
PEOPLE same stormwas filmed entirely using an iPhone and laptop in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The starry cast includes Sandra Oh, Norma Dumezweni, Mary-Louise Parker, Judith Wright, Ron Livingston, Rosemary DeWitt, Elaine May, John Gallagher Jr., Alison Pill, Rengie Ferris, Brittany Bradford, Raul Castillo, Laza Jaffrey. , which includes Daphne Rubin. Vega, Camila Perez, David Zaldivar, Moses Ingram, K. Todd Freeman, Danny Burstein, Jin Ha, Joel de la Fuente, Joshua Leonard, Cory Michael Smith, Atto Blankson-Wood.
This story covers the lives of 24 unique characters throughout the spring and summer of 2020. So they’re overcoming isolation in lockdowns, the Black Lives Matter movement, the 2020 elections, and more.
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same storm The film, which had its world premiere at last year’s Telluride Film Festival, “explores the need for human connection, family, love and the ability to find empathy in difficult and unbearable times,” according to the official synopsis. ”.
“We’re not all in the same boat,” a message appears on screen at the end of the trailer.
Writer-director Peter Hedges wrote the 1993 Eating Gilbert Grape and directed in 2018 ben is back, announced the deadline last September about working with so many stars while the world was shut down due to the pandemic.
“It felt like a terrifying metaphor, but in a way, like a racehorse that hasn’t been able to run for a while, you just open the gate and you know it ran away,” he said at the time. I was very impressed with what they brought in. Of course, one of the shocking things that you might forget while watching the movie is whether they are in a deep emotional moment or are really kind people. After capturing amazing human moments, you realize they have their own cameras.
same storm opens in select theaters on October 14th.