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Laggies
''Laggies'' (released in the United Kingdom as ''Say When'') is a 2014 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Lynn Shelton and written by Andrea Seigel. It stars Keira Knightley, Chloë Grace Moretz, Sam Rockwell, Kaitlyn Dever, Jeff Garlin, Ellie Kemper, Mark Webber, and Daniel Zovatto. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 17, 2014, and was given a limited theatrical release in the United States on October 24, 2014, by A24. Experiencing a quarter-life crisis, Megan (Knightley) panics when her longtime boyfriend proposes. She then escapes for a week, hiding out in the home of her new 16-year-old friend Annika (Moretz), who lives with her single father (Rockwell). Plot Megan is an aimless 28-year-old living in Seattle who is in a committed relationship with her high school sweetheart, Anthony, and is still close with her high school friends. At her friend Allison's wedding, Anthony unexpectedly proposes. She also sees her father cheating on h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keira Knightley
Keira Christina Knightley ( ; born 26 March 1985) is an English actress. Known for her work in independent films and Blockbuster (entertainment), blockbusters, particularly Historical drama, period dramas, she has received List of awards and nominations received by Keira Knightley, numerous accolades, including nominations for two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globes, and a Laurence Olivier Award. In 2018, she was appointed an Order of the British Empire, OBE at Buckingham Palace for services to drama and charity. Born in London to actors Will Knightley and Sharman Macdonald, Knightley obtained an agent at age six and initially worked in commercials and television films. Following a minor role as List of Star Wars characters#Sabé, Sabé in ''Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace'' (1999), her breakthrough came when she played a tomboy footballer in ''Bend It Like Beckham'' (2002) and co-starred in ''Love Actually'' (2003 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaitlyn Dever
Kaitlyn Rochelle Dever (; born December 21, 1996) is an American actress, singer, musician, and songwriter. She is best known for her roles in the television series ''Justified (TV series), Justified'' (2011–2015), ''Last Man Standing (American TV series), Last Man Standing'' (2011–2021), ''Unbelievable (miniseries), Unbelievable'' (2019), ''Dopesick (miniseries), Dopesick'' (2021), ''Apple Cider Vinegar (TV series), Apple Cider Vinegar'' (2025), and ''The Last of Us (TV series), The Last of Us'' (2025–present). She earned Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globe Award nominations for ''Unbelievable'' and ''Dopesick'', in addition to a Primetime Emmy Awards, Primetime Emmy Award nomination for the latter. Dever has starred in films such as ''Booksmart'' (2019), ''Rosaline (film), Rosaline'' (2022), and ''No One Will Save You'' (2023). Her supporting roles include ''Short Term 12'' (2013), ''Detroit (film), Detroit'' (2017), ''Beautiful Boy (2018 film), Beautiful Boy'' (2018), ''De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Seigel
Andrea Seigel (born October 28, 1979) is an American novelist and screenwriter. To date, she has published four novels. Seigel was born in Anaheim, California, and grew up in Irvine, California. She graduated from Woodbridge High School. She then attended Brown University, and received her MFA from Bennington College in Vermont. In 2010, her third young adult novel, ''The Kid Table'' was optioned by producer Ivan Reitman for Paramount Pictures. In March 2013, Seigel appeared on the public radio program ''This American Life''. On the program she revealed that she has ASMR, a perceptual phenomenon that produces tingling in the scalp in response to soft or gentle sounds and motions. In June 2013, production was completed on ''Laggies'', a movie written by Seigel. The film was directed by Lynn Shelton and stars Keira Knightley, Chloë Grace Moretz, Ellie Kemper and Sam Rockwell. The film was released in 2014. In May 2015, Andrea became the subject of the podcast, Mystery S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Zovatto
Daniel Zovatto Blanco (born June 28, 1991) is a Costa Rican and American film and television actor. Since 2012, he has starred in films of the horror genre, ''Beneath'' (2013), '' It Follows'' (2014), and ''Don't Breathe'' (2016), '' The Pope's Exorcist'' (2023), '' Woman Of The Hour '' (2024) as well as the romantic comedy ''Laggies'' (2014). Zovatto made his television debut in 2014, guest starring in an episode of '' Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' He has since held recurring roles as Gideon LeMarchal in ''Revenge'' (2014), and Jack in ''Fear the Walking Dead'' (2016). In 2018, he appeared in one of the lead roles in HBO's '' Here And Now'', and a year later, he was cast in '' Penny Dreadful: City of Angels'' as the series protagonist, which premiered in 2020. Early life and career Daniel Zovatto Blanco was born on June 28, 1991 in San José, Costa Rica, the son of television personality Sylvia Blanco and named after his father, Daniel Zovatto Garetto, an Argentinian politician. Zo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynn Shelton
Lynn Shelton (August 27, 1965 – May 15, 2020) was an American filmmaker, known for writing, directing, and producing such films as '' Humpday'' and '' Your Sister's Sister''. She was associated with the mumblecore genre. Early life Shelton was born in Oberlin, Ohio, and raised in Seattle, Washington. She described herself as having been audacious as a young girl, but having lost confidence in her creativity in adolescence. This experience contributed to a theme she explored in her 2005 film '' We Go Way Back''. Shelton attended Garfield High School. After high school, Shelton attended Oberlin College in Ohio and then the University of Washington School of Drama. She then moved to New York and followed the Master's of Fine Arts program in photography and related media at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. Her thesis advisor was Peggy Ahwesh. She began working in the film industry as a film editor and made a series of experimental short films which have been described as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Sundance Film Festival
The 2014 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 16, 2014 until January 26, 2014 in Park City, Utah, United States, with screenings in Salt Lake City, Utah, Salt Lake City, Ogden, Utah, Ogden, and Sundance Resort in Utah. The festival opened with ''Whiplash (2014 film), Whiplash'' directed by Damien Chazelle and closed with musical drama ''Rudderless'' directed by William H. Macy. The festival honored late Roger Ebert and premiered ''Life Itself (2014 documentary film), Life Itself'' by Steve James (producer), Steve James, a biographical documentary film based on Ebert's 2011 memoir titled as ''Life Itself: A Memoir'' on 19 January 2014. The festival introduced a new film category titled ''Sundance Kids'', which will help to introduce independent films to a younger generation of audiences. It is also a first category at the festival dedicated to children's films. The festival also hosted several events and discussion panels around themes of success through failure titled ''F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nat Sanders
Nathaniel Sanders (born August 9, 1980) is an American film editor. He is best known for his collaborations with Destin Daniel Cretton and Barry Jenkins. He won Independent Spirit Awards for both '' Short Term 12'' (2013) and ''Moonlight'' (2016), as well as being nominated for an Academy Award for the latter. Life and career Sanders was born in New London, Connecticut. He studied film at the Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts, graduating in 2002. After moving to Hollywood, his first job as an editor was on the reality television show ''The Biggest Loser''—a job that he quit when another FSU alumnus, writer-director Barry Jenkins, made his 2008 film '' Medicine for Melancholy'', which Sanders moved to San Francisco to edit. (In 2014, Sanders thanked Jenkins for "saving me from a career in reality television".) When ''Medicine for Melancholy'' premiered at the 2008 South by Southwest film festival, Sanders met director Lynn Shelton and soon after headed to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Garlin
Jeffrey Garlin (born June 5, 1962) is an American stand-up comedy, stand-up comedian and actor. He is best known for playing List of Curb Your Enthusiasm characters#Jeff Greene, Jeff Greene on the HBO sitcom ''Curb Your Enthusiasm'', and Murray Goldberg, patriarch of the eponymous family in the American Broadcasting Company, ABC sitcom ''The Goldbergs (2013 TV series), The Goldbergs''. He also played Marvin on ''Mad About You'' and Mort Meyers on ''Arrested Development'' for Fox (international), Fox and Netflix. Garlin has also appeared as Captain B. McCrea in ''WALL-E'', Buttercup in ''Toy Story 3'', ''Toy Story 4'', and ''Toy Story 5'', Perry Babcock in ''ParaNorman'', and Mr. Britt in ''Safety Not Guaranteed'', among other films. Early life Garlin was born on June 5, 1962, in Chicago, Illinois, to Gene and Carole (née Crafton) Garlin. He grew up in Morton Grove, Illinois, where his father owned a plumbing supply business called Bilko and his mother was active in community t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellie Kemper
Elizabeth Claire Kemper (born May 2, 1980) is an American actress, best known for her roles of Erin Hannon in the sitcom ''The Office'' (2009–2013) and Kimmy Schmidt in the sitcom '' Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt'' (2015–2019). She has also appeared in films, notably '' Bridesmaids'' (2011), ''21 Jump Street'' (2012), '' Sex Tape'' (2014), and '' Home Sweet Home Alone'' (2021). In 2018, she released her debut book, '' My Squirrel Days''. She earned two consecutive nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, and has also been nominated for a Critics' Choice Movie Award, two Critics' Choice Television Awards, three Satellite Awards, and seven Screen Actors Guild Awards. Early life Kemper was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the second of four children of Dorothy Ann "Dotty" (née Jannarone) and David Woods Kemper, a son of one of the wealthiest families in Missouri. Her father is the executive chairman of Commerce Bancshares, a bank ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Webber (actor)
Mark Allen Webber (born July 19, 1980) is an American actor. He is known for his roles in the films ''Snow Day (2000 film), Snow Day'' (2000), ''The Laramie Project (film), The Laramie Project'' (2002), ''Weapons (2007 film), Weapons'' (2007), and as Stephen Stills (Scott Pilgrim character), Stephen Stills in ''Scott Pilgrim vs. the World'' (2010) and ''Scott Pilgrim Takes Off'' (2023). Early life Webber was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he spent the first nine years of his life. His mother, Cheri Honkala, Cheri Lynn Honkala, is a noted advocate for the homeless in Philadelphia, and was the vice-presidential nominee of the Green Party of the United States, Green Party in the 2012 presidential election. He is of Cheyenne descent through his maternal grandmother and of Finnish Americans, Finnish descent through his maternal grandfather. In 1989, he and his single mother moved to Philadelphia, where they spent time homeless, living in cars and abandoned buildings, and strugg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Rockwell
Sam Rockwell (born November 5, 1968) is an American actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for playing troubled police officer Jason Dixon in ''Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri'' (2017). He was nominated in the same category for playing George W. Bush in the political satire ''Vice (2018 film), Vice'' (2018). His portrayal of Bob Fosse in the miniseries ''Fosse/Verdon'' (2019) earned him a Primetime Emmy Award, Primetime Emmy nomination, while his performance in the Broadway (theatre), Broadway revival of ''American Buffalo (play), American Buffalo'' (2022) garnered him a Tony Award, Tony nomination. Rockwell's other films include ''The Green Mile (film), The Green Mile'' (1999), ''Galaxy Quest'' (1999), ''Charlie's Angels (2000 film), Charlie's Angels'' (2000), ''Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (film), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind'' (2002), ''Matchstick Men'' (2003), ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film), The Hitchhiker's Guide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quarter-life Crisis
In popular psychology, a quarter-life crisis is an existential crisis involving anxiety and sorrow over the direction and quality of one's life which is most commonly experienced in a period ranging from a person's early twenties up to their mid-thirties, although it can begin as early as eighteen."The age you're most likely to have a quarter-life crisis" ''The Independent''. Rachel Hosie. 15 November 2017. Retrieved 3 September 2018. It is defined by Alex Fowke as "a period of insecurity, doubt and disappointment surrounding your |
