Days and Nights
DVD IFC9404
Status: IN STOCK
Synopsis
Christian Camargo (Dexter) makes his directorial debut with the star-studded DAYS AND NIGHTS, a comedically tender interpretation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull. Movie star Elizabeth (Allison Janney, Tammy) takes her paramour Peter to her lakeside estate to visit her family during Memorial Day weekend. There they meet up with Elizabeth’s ailing brother (William Hurt, A History of Violence), her artist son (Ben Whishaw, Skyfall), his ethereal muse (Juliet Rylance, Sinister), the family doctor (Jean Reno Léon: The Professional), the estate’s custodian (Russell Means, The Last of the Mohicans), its careless caretaker (Michael Nyqvist, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and his wife (Cherry Jones, 24), their temperamental daughter (Katie Holmes, The Giver), and her long suffering ornithologist husband (Mark Rylance, The Other Boleyn Girl) who’s the keeper of the sacred land where a bald eagle is trying to raise its young. Over the course of the holiday weekend, a disastrous turn of events leads the family from dysfunction to heartbreak and, ultimately, salvation in this tragicomic examination of the volatile and fragile nature of love.