I just got a press release - which I cannot cut & paste on the iPhone - that Overture and the folks who brought you Little Miss Sunshine, Big Beach, committed to make the feature of Jack Goes Boating, a LAByrinth Theater Co production, that I loved a couple of years ago.
It's Phillip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz as a postmodern Norton & Kramden, who live through a time when Jack (Hoffman) focuses on love over pot and hope over misery. Ortiz's character, on the other hand, has a somewhat successful marriage which may or may not be in trouble. Daphne Ruben-Vega reprises as his wife. And new to the foursome, Amy Ryan as Jack's romantic focus.
And Hoffman will make this his film directing debut... smart choice. Small, doable. His big challenge will me opening it up.
But these characters are great and warm and funny and indelible. Good news.
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