John Krasinski Directing Kendrick, Charlie Day and More in 'The Hollars'

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John Krasinski has lined up The Hollars as his next directing effort after helming his first feature, 2009′s Brief Interviews with Hideous Men — and he has enlisted Anna Kendrick, Richard Jenkins, and Margo Martindale to join him. Krasinski also will star in the lead as John Hollar, an aspiring NYC artist who takes his girlfriend (Kendrick) back to his Middle America hometown on the eve of his mother’s (Martindale) brain surgery. There he’s forced to navigate the crazy life he left behind as his dysfunctional family, high school pals, his father (Jenkins), and his over-eager ex flood back into his life ahead of the operation.

Writer James C. Strouse describes the film as a cross between Steel Magnolias and Garden State.

New cast members include Charlie Day, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Sharlto Copley, Josh Groban, Randall Park, Ashley Dyke and Mary Kay Place.

http://www.deadline.com/2014/05/joh...na-kendrick-richard-jenkins-margo-martindale/

http://upandcomers.net/2014/07/14/the-hollars-mary-elizabeth-winstead-charlie-day-john-krasinski/

 

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The setup is nothing new, but the talent has my interest piqued.

 

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Welp...a whole two years later, the trailer has finally dropped.

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John Hollar (John Krasinski), a struggling NYC artist is forced to navigate the small middle-American town he left behind when news of his mother’s illness brings him home. Back in the house he grew up in, John is immediately swept up in the problems of his dysfunctional family, high school rival, and an over-eager ex-girlfriend as he faces impending fatherhood with his girlfriend in New York.

“The Hollars” opens on August 26th.