CENTERPIECE FILM

Tuesday, July 11 7PM | WOH

Wednesday, July 12 9PM | MFC 1

USA 2023 - DCP - 92 minutes, in English

Director, Print Courtesy: Matt Cascella

Screenplay: Jen Cordery

Producers: Desmin Borges, Matt Cascella, Jen Cordery, Alyssa Roehrenbeck

Cast: Desmin Borges, Steve Coulter, Catherine Curtin, Matthew Delamater, Kelly O’Sullivan, Barbara Rosenblat, Kate Alde

Print courtesy: Matt Cascella

Anxiety-ridden Walt embarks on a desperate quest through Portland, Maine to retrieve his stolen dog, Tony, before his girlfriend, the more straight-laced Wendy, returns from a crucial business trip, or risk losing them both. Walt’s search is a journey as idiosyncratic and detoured as Portland itself and Walt himself, whose forlorn face more befits the “hangdog” name than the dog’s ever could. Director Matt Cascella and writer Jen Cordery have made a film that’s charming, original, and sweet in its own deliberately shaggy way. Hangdog is a real Maine-made discovery. —KE Sponsored by Barbara and Ted Alfond