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EXCLUSIVE: After a secret screening astatine Sundance, Miss You, Love You, a movie that stars Allison Janney and Andrew Rannells has recovered a home.
HBO has snapped up nan authorities to nan film, which was written and directed by Jim Rash.
Deadline broke nan news astir nan movie successful 2024 and revealed that it received a starry screening astatine nan last Sundance, attended by Julia Roberts. HBO was intelligibly besides interested, picking up nan movie and making it an HBO Original that debuts connected Friday May 29 astatine 8pm.
It 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.
Miss You, Love You 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.
Rash said he was “absolutely thrilled”. “To beryllium championed by HBO and included among their exemplary room of films and bid is humbling. It’s the cleanable home,” he added.
Francesca Orsi, EVP, HBO Programming, Head of HBO Drama Series and Films, said, “Jim Rash has crafted a film that masterfully navigates grief, family, and the weight of buried trauma with a comedic lightness that ne'er undercuts its depth. At its center, Allison Janney and Andrew Rannells present beautifully calibrated performances as Diane and Jamie, 2 group bound by loss, misunderstanding. We’re thrilled to bring this beautifully quality communicative into nan HBO Films family and can’t wait for audiences to acquisition it.”
“Jim Rash has written an intimate, character-driven communicative astir unexpected relationship and humor in nan midst of profound loss,” added Walsh, Faxon, Pritzker and Shane. “Allison Janney and Andrew Rannells bring specified specificity and bosom to these roles, reminding america that moreover successful life’s astir difficult moments, location is room for healing, compassion, and moreover laughter. We’re so proud to bring this communicative to audiences alongside our partners astatine HBO.”
