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EXCLUSIVE: Alex Wolff (Hereditary), Jim Gaffigan (Troop Zero), Brooklynn Prince (The Florida Project), and Sarah Wayne Callies (The Walking Dead) person wrapped lead roles successful Outside of Cleveland, a caller imagination dramedy from writer-director Colin West, who antecedently collaborated pinch Gaffigan connected nan sci-fi dramedy Linoleum.
Hailing from Brain Scratch Productions and 1515 Films, Outside of Cleveland follows Max (Wolff), a nostalgic thirty-something songwriter who returns to Cleveland to thief his parents (Gaffigan and Callies) move retired of his puerility home, only to beryllium transported backmost to his teenage years wherever he reconnects pinch a neighbour (Prince) he erstwhile ignored. Now virtually surviving successful nan past, Max originates to spot up adjacent that nan puerility he’d been romanticizing arsenic an big was much of a flawed image than nan 1 he’d painted successful his mind. With his fiancée (Olivia Jude) waiting successful Chicago and his younker quickly slipping away, Max must determine whether to support hiding successful nan past aliases yet commencement surviving successful nan moment.
Others appearing successful nan movie see Michael Ian Black (Wet Hot American Summer), Jay Walker (Linoleum), and Jay Westbrook (Superman).
Chad Simpson’s Brain Scratch Productions collaborated pinch Dan Erdman’s 1515 Films, Drew Johnson, and Heather Francis to produce. Burton Welly, Chadd Harbold, Kinley Welly, David Erdman, and Robert Wheaton served arsenic executive producers. West, Simpson and Erdman, who antecedently collaborated connected Linoleum, changeable nan movie successful their hometown of Columbus, OH.
“Outside of Cleveland is simply a communicative that attempts to thread together nan lives we unrecorded pinch nan lives we could person lived, weaving memory, regret, and anticipation into a azygous affectional narrative,” said West. “Our crew’s boundless productivity and Alex Wolff’s grounded capacity made it imaginable to show this multilayered, magical story.”
Known for his activity successful films for illustration Hereditary and Pig, Wolff will adjacent beryllium seen successful Sony’s caller Jumanji film, retired successful theaters connected Christmas Day. He is repped by Untitled Entertainment and WME.
Actor and comedian Jim Gaffigan’s upcoming slate includes nan 4th play of HBO’s The Gilded Age, positive indies New England Toys, Three People successful nan Woods, and Crosshairs. He is repped by Brillstein Entertainment Partners, UTA, and Schreck Rose Dapello.
Prince collapsed retired pinch her starring move successful Sean Baker’s The Florida Project earlier going connected to projects for illustration Home Before Dark, Cocaine Bear, and The Marsh King’s Daughter. She is repped by Untitled Entertainment, UTA, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.
Best known for starring successful shows for illustration The Walking Dead, Prison Break and Colony, Callies is repped by More/Medavoy and Gersh.
West’s past movie Linoleum, starring Gaffigan and Rhea Seehorn, premiered astatine SXSW successful 2022 and was acquired by Shout! Studios. The multi-hyphenate studied good arts earlier transitioning to filmmaking and his films person screened internationally astatine festivals including SXSW, BFI London Film Festival, Fantasia, and nan Palm Springs Film Festival, among others. West was awarded nan Alfred P. Sloan Science successful Cinema Prize successful 2022 and was an Annenberg Foundation MFA Fellow astatine USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. He is repped by Anonymous Content and lawyer Marios Rush.
Black is repped by Artists First; Walker by Buchwald, Principal Entertainment LA, and Myman Greenspan Fox; and Westbrook by Gray Talent Group.
