Marc Meyers is an American feature film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his fourth feature film ''
My Friend Dahmer
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'' and the previous '' How He Fell in Love''.
His first feature film was ''Approaching Union Square''. Based on his stage monologues, this debut is a collage of eleven tales capturing thirty-something New Yorkers struggling to find love and connection in the big city. Among the elegantly drawn characters whose lives briefly intersect on a New York City bus are a tourist, an immigrant, a sex addict, and a woman who is newly awakened to her own psychic powers and senses imminent tragedy. The film had its International Premiere at the
Montreal World Film Festival
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. ''Variety'' wrote, "thought-provoking... touches with skilled insight. Based on his stage work 'Love & Sex: Tales From the Trenches', reps a fine calling card for a clear, even voice in urban angst." It aired on
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.
Meyers then went on to write and direct the ''New York Times'' Critics Pick ''Harvest'', starring
Robert Loggia
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,
Barbara Barrie
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Her film breakthrough came in 1964 with her performance as Julie in the landmark film ''One Potato, Two Potato'', for which she won the Best Actress Awar ...
Victoria Clark
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,
Arye Gross
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Personal life
Gross was born on March 17, 1960, in Los Angeles ...
, and
Peter Friedman
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Life and career
Born in New York City, Friedman graduated from Hofstra University The film portrays three generations of the Italian-American Monopoli family who come together one summer around the eventual passing of their patriarch, a WWII veteran. Gathered at the family home and around their beautiful shoreline town in Madison, Connecticut, years of resentment and betrayal within the family surface, and the grandson, a college-aged student, does his part to hold them all together, growing up in the process. Winner of the Best Narrative Feature Award at various American film festivals, it had a limited theatrical release in 2011. Then it aired on Showtime.
Meyers's third feature ''How He Fell in Love'' premiered at the LA Film Fest in 2015. The film revolves around Travis, a young struggling musician, who crosses paths with Ellen at a wedding. She's an older married yoga teacher who is trying to adopt a child with her husband. Travis and Ellen begin an affair that slowly deepens into something more intimate and profound. As their encounters continue, Ellen is confronted with her failing marriage while Travis must face the consequences of his actions. The film stars
Matt McGorry
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Britne Oldford
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, and
Mark Blum
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Jeffrey Dahmer
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in high school in the 1970s, soon before Dahmer began his killing spree. Dahmer is played by
Ross Lynch
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, while Derf is played by
Alex Wolff
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. The film premiered at the 2017
Tribeca Film Festival
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, and was theatrically released in the fall of 2017 in North America by FilmRise, followed by Altitude Films in UK, and other territories.
Meyers is a 1994 graduate of
Franklin & Marshall College
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, where he majored in English and studied abroad at
Oxford University
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