NEW YORK -- Matthew Modine and French film actress Michele Laroque will star in Eddie O'Flaherty's indie romantic comedy The Neighbor, now shooting in Los Angeles.
Modine plays Jeff, a man on the verge of a nervous breakdown after his business heads into dire straits and his daughter (Gina Mantegna) tells him that his ex-wife Meredith Scott Lynn) is marrying his former best friend (David Youse). When Christine (Laroque), a high-powered real estate developer, moves into the condo below Jeff with the misunderstanding that he'll be moving out for her renovation, a battle of wills ensues that threatens to turn romantic. Complicating matters are Christine's uptight fiance (Ed Quinn) and unpleasant boss (Richard Kind).
Karen S. Shapiro, producer of the award-winning African AIDS drama Beat the Drum, is teaming with partner Michel Rampal to produce the film. Neighbor is O'Flaherty's follow-up to his feature directorial debut, Freestyle Releasing's 2005 boxing drama Fighting Tommy Riley. He co-wrote the screenplay with Riley writer and star J.P.
Modine plays Jeff, a man on the verge of a nervous breakdown after his business heads into dire straits and his daughter (Gina Mantegna) tells him that his ex-wife Meredith Scott Lynn) is marrying his former best friend (David Youse). When Christine (Laroque), a high-powered real estate developer, moves into the condo below Jeff with the misunderstanding that he'll be moving out for her renovation, a battle of wills ensues that threatens to turn romantic. Complicating matters are Christine's uptight fiance (Ed Quinn) and unpleasant boss (Richard Kind).
Karen S. Shapiro, producer of the award-winning African AIDS drama Beat the Drum, is teaming with partner Michel Rampal to produce the film. Neighbor is O'Flaherty's follow-up to his feature directorial debut, Freestyle Releasing's 2005 boxing drama Fighting Tommy Riley. He co-wrote the screenplay with Riley writer and star J.P.
Freestyle Releasing -- a Santa Monica-based domestic theatrical distribution and marketing company recently formed by Susan Jackson, Mark Borde and Mike Doban -- has acquired all North American distribution rights to Fighting Tommy Riley, the feature directorial debut of Eddie O'Flaherty. The film, which stars J.P. Davis and Eddie Jones, picked up the Kodak Award for Cinematography for Michael Fimognari's work at the just-concluded 2004 Hamptons International Film Festival. Based on a screenplay written by Davis, the film was financed and produced by Bettina Tendler O'Mara's Visualeyes Prods. and Jellyworks. Sales in the foreign market are being handled by CURB Entertainment.
- 10/26/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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