SXSW 2015: Narrative Spotlight
High profile narrative features receiving their World, North American or U.S. premieres at SXSW.
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- DirectorBob ByingtonStarsJason SchwartzmanOlympia DukakisTunde AdebimpeSharing a small apartment with his sleepy French bulldog, an unmotivated thirty-something slacker lands a job at a Quick Lube to be close to the shop's beautiful manager. Has he found a new purpose in life? Is there still hope?
- DirectorJustin LernerStarsDeborah Ann WollJoseph CrossTravis Quentin YoungDavis meets a cute young woman claiming to be his cousin. After confirming that his dad has a secret brother, he visits her and her two sisters. What keeps their dads apart?
- DirectorGraham HenmanStarsVanessa KirbyJohn HannahEd WestwickA young ambitious chef becomes mixed up with the East End London mob when he witnesses a murder.
- DirectorTodd Strauss-SchulsonStarsTaissa FarmigaMalin AkermanAdam DevineA young woman grieving the loss of her mother, a famous scream queen from the 1980s, finds herself pulled into the world of her mom's most famous movie. Reunited, the women must fight off the film's maniacal killer.
- DirectorJamie BabbitStarsJudy GreerNatasha LyonneMalcolm BarrettFollows the lives two co-dependent sisters who work as hotel maids in Fresno.
- DirectorOren ShaiStarsJocelin DonahueKelly LynchJim BeaverDecades ago at The Frontier, a diner with 3 motel rooms in the desert on old route 66, a young woman stops and gets work. She reads about a murder in Flagstaff and a $2M armored truck heist. Is it connected to the people at The Frontier?
- DirectorGuy MyhillStarsLiam WalpolePaul PopplewellSienna GuilloryA long hot summer in rural Norfolk and a rough coming of age for Goob Taylor, fighting with brutal, womanizing stock car racer Gene Womack for his mother's attention, and falling for the exotic charms of a pretty foreign field worker.
- DirectorKatie CokinosStarsEden BrolinChelsea LopezCasper AndreasA poignant, lightly comedic story about a recent college grad who volunteers to care for her formidable great aunt. While at her rural estate, she unearths her family's past and takes a meaningful step toward her own future.
- DirectorDaniel ParkStarsRhonda AldrichSteve ByrneStefanie CarpenterIn LA's Koreatown, 5 legendary partiers go out for one more night of debauchery, growing up by throwing down like they did in the old days.
- DirectorRoss PartridgeStarsRoss PartridgeOona LaurenceJess WeixlerWhen a man meets a young girl in a parking lot he attempts to help her avoid a bleak destiny by initiating her into the beauty of the outside world. The journey shakes them in ways neither expects.
- DirectorKatharine EmmerStarsJosh McDermittKatharine EmmerAdam LustickTwo depressed loners stuck house sitting together have 3 weeks to turn their lives around.
- DirectorJosh LawsonStarsBojana NovakovicJosh LawsonDamon HerrimanThe secret lives of five suburban couples living in Sydney reveal both the fetishes and the repercussions that come with sharing them.
- DirectorPaul DalioStarsKatie HolmesLuke KirbyChristine LahtiTwo bipolar patients meet in a psychiatric hospital and begin a romance that brings out all of the beauty and horror of their condition.
- DirectorAntoine Bardou-JacquetStarsRupert GrintRon PerlmanRobert SheehanAfter failing to locate the legendary Stanley Kubrick, an unstable CIA agent must instead team up with a seedy rock band manager to develop the biggest con of all time-staging the moon landing.
- DirectorCharles HoodStarsAdam PallyRosa SalazarRob HuebelWorkaholic Kevin goes home with the beautiful train-wreck Madeline for a drunken one night stand, but he's horrified to discover she's actually his boss' jilted ex-mistress.
- DirectorRobert DuvallStarsRobert DuvallJames FrancoDarien WillardsonA detective opens up a fifteen-year-old missing persons case, and begins to suspect that the missing boy was murdered, and that a local rancher was involved.