Byron Allen’s Freestyle Releasing handles North American rights.
Los Angeles-based Bleiberg/Dimbort has acquired international sales rights to the comedic crime thriller Clover starring Ron Perlman and Chazz Palminteri.
The company will introduce the ensemble film to buyers in the run-up to the autumn festival markets. Byron Allen’s Freestyle Releasing handles the North American release.
Jon Abrahams directed Clover, in which he stars alongside Mark Webber as two bumbling Irish twins who resort to extreme measures to pay off their father’s debt to a local mob boss.
Things go from bad to worse when the titular tough...
Los Angeles-based Bleiberg/Dimbort has acquired international sales rights to the comedic crime thriller Clover starring Ron Perlman and Chazz Palminteri.
The company will introduce the ensemble film to buyers in the run-up to the autumn festival markets. Byron Allen’s Freestyle Releasing handles the North American release.
Jon Abrahams directed Clover, in which he stars alongside Mark Webber as two bumbling Irish twins who resort to extreme measures to pay off their father’s debt to a local mob boss.
Things go from bad to worse when the titular tough...
- 8/12/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
(l-r) Jon Abrahams and Nicole Elizabeth Berger in Clover. Photo courtesy of Freestyle Digital Media.
Clover is a crime action/comedy about a couple of Irish American brothers on the run from a Italian American crime boss, in the company of a precocious girl named Clover. The girl is there to make us think of Kick Ass, but Clover mines a host of other films in the crime action/comedy genre, pretty much to a fault. While the tropes are familiar, Clover puts them together well enough to present a serviceable popcorn entertainment for some audiences. It’s no Snatch, but it might do in a pinch for an afternoon of stay-at-home distraction, if you don’t expect too much..
Clover is not as clever as it thinks it is but it benefits from a strong cast, who provide much of the reason to watch it. Directed by Jon Abrahams...
Clover is a crime action/comedy about a couple of Irish American brothers on the run from a Italian American crime boss, in the company of a precocious girl named Clover. The girl is there to make us think of Kick Ass, but Clover mines a host of other films in the crime action/comedy genre, pretty much to a fault. While the tropes are familiar, Clover puts them together well enough to present a serviceable popcorn entertainment for some audiences. It’s no Snatch, but it might do in a pinch for an afternoon of stay-at-home distraction, if you don’t expect too much..
Clover is not as clever as it thinks it is but it benefits from a strong cast, who provide much of the reason to watch it. Directed by Jon Abrahams...
- 4/20/2020
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
There are more than enough streaming and VOD titles of all genres in the specialty arena making their debut this weekend as they shift from theatrical to streaming for your quarantine entertainment. For those who need to quench their thirst for a rom-com, Mike Doyle’s Almost Love is set to premiere.
The Vertical Entertainment film made its debut in 2019 at Toronto’s Lgbtq film fest Inside Out and already took a bow in the UK in March under the title Sell By. Now, audiences stateside can stream the ensemble pic starring Scott Evans.
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The Vertical Entertainment film made its debut in 2019 at Toronto’s Lgbtq film fest Inside Out and already took a bow in the UK in March under the title Sell By. Now, audiences stateside can stream the ensemble pic starring Scott Evans.
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- 4/3/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
The mobster comedy is by now such familiar terrain that it ought to have its own nickname, and that familiarity does not make breathing new life into the subgenre easier. Alas, there isn’t much fresh air to be had in “Clover,”
Despite a capable cast and reasonably energetic execution from director Jon Abrahams, this violent caper lacks any real wit or novelty (beyond congratulating itself a bit too much for including a lesbian couple as “hitmen”), ultimately leaning on tired stereotypes rather than doing anything particularly clever with them. Launching on various cable and digital platforms April 3, it’s a just-passable entertainment that may seem better to those who think “Boondock Saints” is an enduring classic.
You can certainly sense that lowbrow cult favorite’s influence in the dynamic between the brothers Callahan, two orphaned “micks” in an unnamed East Coast city running their family’s corner bar. Or at least they were,...
Despite a capable cast and reasonably energetic execution from director Jon Abrahams, this violent caper lacks any real wit or novelty (beyond congratulating itself a bit too much for including a lesbian couple as “hitmen”), ultimately leaning on tired stereotypes rather than doing anything particularly clever with them. Launching on various cable and digital platforms April 3, it’s a just-passable entertainment that may seem better to those who think “Boondock Saints” is an enduring classic.
You can certainly sense that lowbrow cult favorite’s influence in the dynamic between the brothers Callahan, two orphaned “micks” in an unnamed East Coast city running their family’s corner bar. Or at least they were,...
- 4/1/2020
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
There’s not much new ground covered in Jon Abrahams’ amiable “Clover,” which stuffs a slew of familiar character tropes — bickering Irish brothers, nattily-dressed mafia types, hardened guns-for-hire — into an overcooked crime caper that’s less about evil deeds and more about the people who do them. Yet Abrahams, who also stars in the film, has at least one thing down for his sophomore turn behind the camera: top-notch casting, the kind that can spice up even the blandest of projects. Fortunately for the fledgling filmmaker, “Clover” is
Abrahams and fellow multi-hyphenate Mark Webber star as a pair of down-on-their-luck Buffalo brothers, in debt to a local mobster (Chazz Palminteri — see? this thing practically casts itself) who cooks up a harsh plan for them to start chipping away at what they owe. It involves roughing up some other debtors, and turning tail on the other low-lives that skulk around the...
Abrahams and fellow multi-hyphenate Mark Webber star as a pair of down-on-their-luck Buffalo brothers, in debt to a local mobster (Chazz Palminteri — see? this thing practically casts itself) who cooks up a harsh plan for them to start chipping away at what they owe. It involves roughing up some other debtors, and turning tail on the other low-lives that skulk around the...
- 4/1/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
It wasn’t wise to borrow money from local mobster Tony Davolio (Chazz Palminteri), but brothers Mickey (Jon Abrahams) and Jackie (Mark Webber) didn’t have a choice. Running a bar isn’t easy these days and the added pressure of trying to keep one afloat after generations of family ownership forces their hands to make a deal with the Devil. After a shared history allows for a single extension on payment without increasing the vig, Jackie decides to gamble what they owe (recouped in full) the night before their deadline in hopes of easy profit. As Mickey (and many others) soon explains, however, thinking has never been that sibling’s strong suit. So how do we meet these two? Escorted empty-handed to Tony’s lair, their fate all but sealed.
Screenwriter Michael Testone does give them one more out, though. If the brothers go with Tony’s son Joey...
Screenwriter Michael Testone does give them one more out, though. If the brothers go with Tony’s son Joey...
- 10/14/2019
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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