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EAT WHEATIES! Canada | 2020 | 89 minutes Director: Scott Abramovitch Producers: Scott Abramovitch, David J. Phillips Written By: Scott Abramovitch Cast: Tony Hale, Elisha Cuthbert, Danielle Brooks, Paul Walter Hauser, David Walton, Sarah Chalke, Sarah Goldberg, Rizwan Manji, Alan Tudyk, Sarah Burns, Robbie Amell, Kylie Bunbury, Lamorne Morris Executive Producer: Daniel Norris Webb, Jamie Abramovitch, Andy Kurzon, Salamo Levin, Tony Manolikakis Cinematographer: Phil Miller Editor: Salamo Levin
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Tony Hale, (who will be familiar to fans of television’s “Arrested Development”, where he has won Emmy Awards, and is also featured in WFF20 NINE DAY) is perfectly cast as Sid Shaw, a socially inept office worker whose life is turned upside down when he devotes himself to inviting celebrity Elizabeth Banks to his college reunion. He tries contacting her by phone and by mail, and is met with silence and cynicism. Eventually, they send him a smudged photograph. He starts sending her a regular series of notes, which become increasingly confessional, even as they try to sound upbeat and professional. His persistence, however, concerns her managers, who determine that they are dealing with a bona fide stalker. He is not a true stalker, of course, just a lonely man with OCD trying to fill a void in his life by attaching himself to a fleeting celebrity. That doesn’t stop her managers from taking him to court as a stalker and slapping a restraining order on him. Paul Walter Hauser (who starred as Richard Jewell for Clint Eastwood last year and was featured in I, TONYA WFF17) steals the show as the hilarious goofball lawyer who volunteers to represent him in court.
This is Scott Abramovitch’s first film as a director, though he has screenwriting credits on 2014’s THE CALLING. EAT WHEATIES! is a very human comedy of social awkwardness and the search for acknowledgement and respect. Heartland Film Festival San Diego Film Festival
SCOTT ABRAMOVITCH wrote, directed and produced the feature comedy EAT WHEATIES! starring Tony Hale which is set to be released in late 2020. In 2014 Scott Abramovitch wrote and produced Sony’s THE CALLING starring Susan Sarandon, Ellen Burstyn, Donald Sutherland and Topher Grace, for which he was nominated for a 2015 Canadian Screen Award in the Best Adapted Screenplay category.
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