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A Quiet Little Marriage
''A Quiet Little Marriage'' is a 2008 drama film directed by Mo Perkins and written by Perkins, Mary Elizabeth Ellis and Cy Carter. It also stars Ellis and Carter. Cast *Mary Elizabeth Ellis as Olive *Cy Carter as Dax *Jimmi Simpson as Jackson * Michael O'Neill as Bruce *Charlie Day as Adam *Melanie Lynskey as Monique *Lucy DeVito as Silvia Production The film was produced by Hal Haberman, with cinematography by Eric Zimmerman; music by David Lux; and edited by Julia Gandelsonas. Distribution It was distributed by IFC Films. Awards The film won the Best Narrative Feature award at the 2009 Slamdance Film Festival The Slamdance Film Festival is an annual film festival focused on emerging artists. The annual week-long festival takes place in Park City, Utah, in late January and is the main event organized by the year-round Slamdance organization, which als .... References External links * * 2008 films 2008 drama films 2000s English-language films {{2000s-drama-f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Elizabeth Ellis
Mary Elizabeth Ellis (born May 11, 1979) is an American actress, best known for her recurring roles as The Waitress on the FX comedy ''It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia'' (2005–present), Nick's ex-girlfriend Caroline in the Fox sitcom ''New Girl'' (2011–2018) and Lisa Palmer on the Netflix horror-comedy ''Santa Clarita Diet'' (2017–2019). Ellis also starred as Amy in the shortlived NBC sitcom ''Perfect Couples'' (2010–2011) and Debbie Sanderson in the Fox sitcom '' The Grinder'' (2015–2016). Most recently, she played Gary's mother Anita in Paul Thomas Anderson's ''Licorice Pizza'' (2021). Early life Ellis was born in Laurel, Mississippi. She graduated from Southern Methodist University in 2002. Career Since the first season began airing in 2005, Ellis has been mostly widely known for her role as The Waitress, the object of Charlie Kelly's unrequited infatuation and obsession, on the FX/FXX comedy series ''It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia'' (2005–present). Ell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IFC Films
IFC Films is an American film production and distribution company based in New York. It is an offshoot of IFC owned by AMC Networks. It distributes mainly independent films under its own name, select foreign films and documentaries under its Sundance Selects label and genre films under its IFC Midnight label. It operates the IFC Center. History The IFC Films division has a predecessor film label, Next Wave Films, designed to release movies, which was in operation from 1997 to 2002, when it was shut down and folded into IFC themselves. IFC also launched a film company, IFC Productions, which set up operation in March 1997 to produce their own feature film projects. On January 18, 1999, IFC launched a film label Agenda 2000, which set up their own film projects, which have their world premiere on IFC. On September 26, 2000, IFC launched its own feature film unit, branded IFC Films, to be headed by Bob Berney, who went on to have jobs at Newmarket Films, and later founder of Pic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austin Film Festival
Austin Film Festival (AFF), founded in 1994, is an organization in Austin, Texas, that focuses on writers’ creative contributions to film. Initially, AFF was called the Austin Heart of Film Screenwriters Conference and functioned to launch the careers of screenwriters, who historically have been underrepresented within the film industry. AFF is known for its annual October Austin Film Festival & Conference. The Conference was the first event of its kind, bringing professional and amateur screenwriters together to celebrate the role of screenplays in filmmaking and host conversations focusing on craft and on particular films and television series. In addition, the Screenplay Competition receives more entries than any other competition in the world. Several competition finalists and semi-finalists have made sales or found managers and agents at the conference. The festival went virtual in 2020. Film Festival Overview Each October, Austin Film Festival & Conference presents a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmi Simpson
Jimmi Simpson (born November 21, 1975) is an American actor. He is best known for his work on television, which includes recurring roles as Liam McPoyle on ''It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia'' (2005–2013), Lyle the Intern on ''The Late Show with David Letterman'' (2008–09), Mary Lightly on '' Psych'' (2009–13), Lloyd Lowery on '' Breakout Kings'' (2011–13), Jack Spaniel on '' The Newsroom'' (2014), Gavin Orsay on ''House of Cards'' (2014–15), and the younger William on ''Westworld'' (2016–2020). For the last role, he received a nomination for the 2018 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. In 2022, he starred in a television series adaptation of ''The Man Who Fell to Earth''. Simpson also starred as Soldier on SundanceTV's ''Hap and Leonard'' (2016), Detective Russell Poole on USA's '' Unsolved'' (2018), and James Schaeler on ePix's ''Perpetual Grace, LTD'' (2019). He received a nomination for the 2018 British Academy Television Award fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael O'Neill (actor)
Michael O'Neill (born May 29, 1951) is an American actor. Early life and education O'Neill was born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama. He attended Capitol Heights Junior High and Robert E. Lee High School, graduating in 1969. In high school he played basketball and was elected class beau and a class favorite. He graduated from Auburn University in 1974. While at Auburn, O'Neill was inducted as a brother of Lambda Chi Alpha. After attending Auburn, he spent time under the tutelage of actor Will Geer and one of Geer's daughters, the actress Ellen Geer, at Theatricum Botanicum in Los Angeles before moving to New York to pursue his career there. Career With a career stretching through three decades, he usually portrays senior law enforcement or military officers. He played Special Agent Ron Butterfield, the head of President Josiah Bartlet's Secret Service detail, on ''The West Wing'', and CTU Administrative Director Richard Walsh in the first two episodes of '' 24''. He played ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Day
Charles Peckham Day (born February 9, 1976) is an American actor, writer, producer and podcaster. He is best known for playing Charlie Kelly on the FX comedy ''It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia'' (2005–present), which he co-created with Rob McElhenney and Glenn Howerton, and on which he also serves as executive producer and writer. In 2011, he was nominated for a Critics' Choice Television Award and a Satellite Award for this role. He subsequently co-created ''The Cool Kids'' (2018–2019) on Fox with Paul Fruchbom in 2018 and ''Mythic Quest'' (2020–present) on Apple TV+ with Rob McElhenney and Megan Ganz in 2020, and continues to serve as executive producer on the latter. On film, he is best known for his performances as Dr Newton Geiszler the biologist in Guillermo del Toro's science-fiction monster movie ''Pacific Rim'' (2013) and its sequel '' Pacific Rim: Uprising'' (2018), Dale Arbus in the comedy ''Horrible Bosses'' (2011) and sequel ''Horrible Bosses 2'' (2014), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanie Lynskey
Melanie Jayne Lynskey ( ; born 16 May 1977) is a New Zealand actress widely known for her portrayals of complex women in several independent films and television shows and also known for her command of American dialects. Lynskey is the recipient of two Critics' Choice Awards, a New Zealand Film Award, and a Hollywood Film Award including nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. She started her career with the fim ''Heavenly Creatures'' (1994), earning a New Zealand Film Award for her portrayal of teenage murderess Pauline Parker. She later appeared in various international productions, including ''Ever After'' (1998), ''Detroit Rock City'', '' But I'm a Cheerleader'', ''The Cherry Orchard'' (all 1999), '' Coyote Ugly'' (2000), ''Snakeskin'' (2001), '' Shooters'', '' Abandon'', and ''Sweet Home Alabama'' (all 2002). After moving to the United States, Lynskey became known as a character actor, gaining recognition for a mix of big-budget and sma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy DeVito
Lucy Chet DeVito (born March 11, 1983) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Stephanie in '' Melissa and Joey'' (2010–2012). Early life DeVito was born on March 11, 1983, in Los Angeles, the daughter of actors Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman. She also has two younger siblings, a sister, Grace Fan DeVito, and a brother Jacob Daniel DeVito. Her father is Catholic and her mother is Jewish. She graduated from Brown University in 2007 with a degree in theater. Career In 2008, DeVito starred as Anne Frank in a production of ''Anne Frank'' at the Intiman Theatre in Seattle, Washington. In 2009, she starred as La Piccola in the play ''The Miracle at Naples'' at the Huntington Theatre. Her first major movie role was the 2009 film ''Leaves of Grass;'' later that year DeVito starred alongside her mother in the off-Broadway play ''Love, Loss, and What I Wore'', adapted by Nora and Delia Ephron, at the Westside Theatre. She portrayed the daughter of Danny DeVito's c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slamdance Film Festival
The Slamdance Film Festival is an annual film festival focused on emerging artists. The annual week-long festival takes place in Park City, Utah, in late January and is the main event organized by the year-round Slamdance organization, which also hosts a screenplay competition, workshops, screenings throughout the year and events with an emphasis on independent films with budgets under US$1 million. History The festival was founded in 1995 by Dan Mirvish, Jon Fitzgerald, Shane Kuhn, and Peter Baxter, along with Paul Rachman, after they had been unsuccessful in submitting films to the Sundance Film Festival. Baxter has been in charge of Slamdance since 1997. Screenplay competition In addition to the festival, Slamdance's screenplay competition has discovered a number of talented screenwriters, including Joshua Marston (''Maria Full of Grace'') and Steven Fechter and Nicole Kassell, co-writers of ('' The Woodsman''). In 2008, Slamdance entered into an agreement with Upload Films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Films
The year 2008 involved many major film events. ''The Dark Knight'' was the year's highest-grossing film, while ''Slumdog Millionaire'' won the Academy Award for Best Picture (out of eight Academy Awards). Evaluation of the year 2008 has been widely considered to be a very significant year for cinema. The entertainment agency website IGN described 2008 as "one of the biggest years ever for movies." It stated, "2008 was the year when the comic book movie genre not only hits its zenith, but also gained critical respectability thanks to ''The Dark Knight''. Animated films also proved a huge draw for filmgoers, with Pixar's ''WALL-E'' becoming not only the highest grossing toon but also the most lauded. Things got off on the right foot with the monster movie madness of ''Cloverfield''. Marvel got down to business laying the groundwork for their superhero team-up ''The Avengers'' with the blockbuster hit ''Iron Man'' and their respectable attempt at rebooting ''The Incredible Hulk''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Drama Films
8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of the form , being an integer greater than 1. * the first number which is neither prime nor semiprime. * the base of the octal number system, which is mostly used with computers. In octal, one digit represents three bits. In modern computers, a byte is a grouping of eight bits, also called an octet. * a Fibonacci number, being plus . The next Fibonacci number is . 8 is the only positive Fibonacci number, aside from 1, that is a perfect cube. * the only nonzero perfect power that is one less than another perfect power, by Mihăilescu's Theorem. * the order of the smallest non-abelian group all of whose subgroups are normal. * the dimension of the octonions and is the highest possible dimension of a normed division algebra. * the first number ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
