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Completed - ENGLISH - Comedy - 110 minutes

Log Line

NYC, hot summer 1994. The graduate Luke swaps pot for therapy. A friendship grows with his shrink. A mid-life crisis meets a coming of age to hip-hop beats.

Previous markets

  • Berlin EFM 2008 (Premiere)
  • Cannes 2008 (Premiere)
  • AFM 2008 (Line up)
  • Toronto 2010 (Line up)
Full history

Year of production : 2008

Director(s) : Jonathan LEVINE
Cast : Ben KINGSLEY, Famke JANSSEN, Josh PECK, Mary-Kate OLSEN, Olivia THIRLBY

Producer(s) : Felipe MARINO, Joe NEURAUTER, Keith CALDER

Synopsis

Pot dealing kid Luke Shapiro is trying to figure out how to solve his parents’ insolvency, beat depression, and get laid before pushing off to college.
Luckily he’s got a deal with a psychiatrist, Dr Squires, who trades therapy sessions for grass. It happens that the doctor’s marriage is crumbling, so the two – one in late adolescence, the other in late middle age – embark on a passage into new life stages. As Luke falls for a classmate who just happens to be Squires’s daughter, the summer heats up, he follows the doctor’s orders, learning to coexist with pain and make it part of himself, rather than let it become his downfall.
US distributor: SPC

Production

Country(ies) : USA

FRANCE Sep 24, 2008 BAC FILMS
GERMANY KOCH FILMS GMBH
KOREA (Sou SPONGE ENT.
ROMANIA TRANSILVANIA FI
UNITED KIN Aug 29, 2008 REVOLVER

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