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EXCLUSIVE: Paul Sparks, Kate Burton, Xander Berkeley and Rhys Coiro lead nan formed of Melissa Miller Costanzo’s A Great Depression, which has conscionable wrapped successful New Jersey.
The movie follows Mark Turner (Sparks), nan heir and president of his family’s billion-dollar company, arsenic he struggles to reclaim his life aft battling depression. As his world originates to fracture, nan statement betwixt imagination, ambition and self-destruction becomes blurred, successful what nan filmmakers told Deadline will beryllium an emotionally charged image of resilience, personality and recovery.
Costanzo’s erstwhile films see Run, starring Sarah Levy, Phillipa Soo and Adam Pally, and her debut characteristic All These Small Moments, which premiered astatine Tribeca. She co-wrote A Great Depression pinch Jenny Halper.
“A Great Depression is 1 man’s existent communicative astir his travel done and beyond depression,” Costanzo said of her caller film. “With its injection of magical realism and heightened reality, my dream is that this task will thief trim nan stigma surrounding intelligence unwellness and treatments for illustration ECT without ever emotion for illustration a lecture.”
Alongside Sparks (The Night Of), Burton (Scandal), Berkeley (24) and Coiro (Entourage), nan movie will prima Annie Parisse, Michael Oberholtzer, Megan Ferguson, Emily Tremaine, Sophia Bunnell, Malachi Weir, Jack Ball, Michael Gaston and Alysia Reiner, who information retired nan cast.
Curious Gremlin (The Testament Of Ann Lee) successful relation pinch MAP Creative Ventures are nan accumulation banners connected nan indie movie. It is produced by Scott Aharoni, Sinan Eczacibasi and Alihan Yalcindag of Curious Gremlin, alongside Matt Jensen, Alex Peace Power, Paul Steiner and Costanzo.
Eric Buttelman is co-producer. Executive producers are Mark Litzsinger, Britt Power and Ryan Asher.
