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EXCLUSIVE: Earlier this week we brought you news that Allison Janney and Andrew Rannell play Miss You, Love You had been picked up by HBO for nan U.S. Today, we tin update that nan movie is headed to nan Cannes marketplace pinch Architect, which is handling world sales.
The Jim Rash-written and directed task had a concealed screening astatine Sundance, which was attended by Julia Roberts, and HBO has made it an Original to debut connected May 29th stateside. Architect will beryllium screening it connected nan Riviera adjacent month.
The movie follows a blunt, grieving widow, Diane Patterson (Janney), who is forced to scheme her husband’s ceremonial pinch a full stranger: her estranged son’s assistant, Jamie Simms (Rannells). As they fumble done condolences and their strange, darkly funny circumstances, buried secrets and long-held resentments surface, but their business becomes an improbable conduit for connection, laughter, and treatment for this mother and her unexpected surrogate son.
Bonnie Hunt, Suzy Nakamura, Oscar Nuñez and Lisa Schurga also star.
The movie is produced by Kevin Walsh, Nat Faxon, Gigi Pritzker and Rachel Shane for Madison Wells. Michael Bowes serves arsenic exec producer, Tammy Allen is co-producer and Liz Lippman is an subordinate producer.
Architect Calum Gray said: “Jim Rash is simply a sensational filmmaker who has been making america laugh, bespeak and outcry for complete a decade now. Miss You, Love You is an absolute circuit de unit of his imaginative prowess and successful Allison Janney and Andrew Ranells he has recovered 2 genuinely magical actors who transmute this beautifully constructed book into utterly compelling viewing. Miss You, Love You is fundamentally a movie astir quality connection; nan maddening delight of it, nan trouble successful establishing it, nan merchandise erstwhile it finally, meaningfully happens – modern audiences will find specified richness, beauty and laughter successful this movie.”
