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Tribeca Festival · 2020

Tribeca Festival 2020

Spotlight Narrative

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16 films · 2 reviews

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Bad Education

In the wake of an impending embezzlement scandal, a charismatic superintendent struggles to maintain order to keep his high school district prosperous.

(Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Cory Finley; Writer: Mike Makowsky; Stars: Hugh Jackman, Geraldine Viswanathan, Allison Janney, Alex Wolff, Kathrine Narducci, Ray Romano, Jimmy Tatro, Annaleigh Ashford, Stephanie Kurtzuba, Pat Healy, Welker White, Rafael Casal, Ray Abruzzo, Stephen Spinella, Kayli Carter)

US premiere

Clean

Review preview for Clean

The action, when it comes, is introduced with an impact that will make you drop your popcorn, and you’ll be on the edge of your seat for what follows.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
Tormented by a past life, garbage man Clean attempts a life of quiet redemption. But when his good intentions mark him a target of a local crime boss, Clean is forced to reconcile with the violence of his past.

(Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Paul Solet; Writer: Adrien Brody, Paul Solet; Stars: Adrien Brody, Glenn Fleshler, Richie Merritt, John Bianco, Dinora Walcott, Antino Crowley-Kamenwati, Alex Corrado, Gerard Cordero, Catherine Nastasi, Scott Matheny, Wayne Pyle, Frankie Montero, Sonia Conlin, David Hadasz, Dannielle Rose)

Full review See: Interview with Paul Solet about Clean

World premiere

Don't Tell A Soul

Joey’s older brother Matt convinces him to rob a house for their sick mother and security guard Hamby falls in a well chasing them. Now Hamby must match wits with the teenagers in order to get out.

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Alex McAulay; Writer: Alex McAulay; Stars: Mena Suvari, Rainn Wilson, Fionn Whitehead, Jack Dylan Grazer, Abigail Esmena Froehle, Richard Fike, Kate Duncan, Graham Lutes, Shannon Cogan, McKenna Christine Poe, Seth Poe, Jacob Dufour, Joseph m Robinson, Damon Sudduth, Mena Suvari)

World premiere

The God Committee

When a donor heart arrives at a New York City hospital, a committee of doctors and bureaucrats must convene to decide which of three patients deserves the life-saving transplant.

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Austin Stark; Writer: Austin Stark; Stars: Julia Stiles, Janeane Garofalo, Colman Domingo, Kelsey Grammer, Dan Hedaya, Elizabeth Masucci, Ava Eisenson, Peter Y Kim, Wynter Kullman, Motell Gyn Foster, Alberto Bonilla, Katie Do, Patricia R Floyd, Clark Carmichael, Patricia Mauceri)

World premiere

Happily

Romantic-comedy-thriller about a happily married couple whose friends perform an intervention to put an end to their constant public displays of affection.

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: BenDavid Grabinski; Writer: BenDavid Grabinski; Stars: Natalie Zea, Shannon Woodward, Joel McHale, Kerry Bishé, Charlyne Yi, Stephen Root, Natalie Morales, Breckin Meyer, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Brea Grant, Paul Scheer, Jon Daly, Al Madrigal, Natalie Zea, Shannon Woodward)

World premiere

Inheritance

When the patriarch of a wealthy and powerful New York family suddenly dies, his daughter is left with a shocking secret inheritance that challenges her beliefs in justice and threatens to destroy her family’s lives.

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Vaughn Stein; Writer: Matthew Kennedy; Stars: Lily Collins, Connie Nielsen, Simon Pegg, Chace Crawford, Marque Richardson, Michael Beach, Chris Gann, Joe Herrera, Christina DeRosa, Harrison Stone, Rebecca Adams, Mariyah Francis, Lucas Alexander Ayoub, Jim E. Chandler, Patrick Warburton)

World premiere

The King Of Staten Island

Scott has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. As his younger sister heads off to college, he spends his days smoking weed, hanging with the guys and hooking up with his childhood friend - until his mother starts dating a loudmouth firefighter and everything changes.

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Judd Apatow; Writer: Judd Apatow, Pete Davidson, Dave Sirus; Stars: Pete Davidson, Marisa Tomei, Bill Burr, Bel Powley, Maude Apatow, Steve Buscemi)

World premiere

Love is Love is Love

Triptych about love, infidelity and romance

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Eleanor Coppola; Writer: Eleanor Coppola, Eleanor Coppola, Eleanor Coppola, Karen Leigh Hopkins; Stars: Rosanna Arquette, Chris Messina, Joanne Whalley, Cybill Shepherd, Kathy Baker, Rita Wilson, Polly Draper, Marshall Bell, Alyson Reed, Valarie Pettiford, Maya Kazan, Elea Oberon, Justin Ashforth, Gloria Garcia Stanley, Jeremy Kahn)

World premiere

Love Spreads

Rock band Glass Heart seclude themselves in a remote cottage to find inspiration and energy for their next album. It all hinges on star Kelly, but inspiration won’t come, and tensions start to build.

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Jamie Adams; Writer: Jamie Adams; Stars: Alia Shawkat, Dolly Wells, Chanel Cresswell, Nick Helm, Tara Lee, Alia Shawkat, Dolly Wells, Chanel Cresswell, Nick Helm, Tara Lee)

World premiere

Monday

Mikey and Chloe are two Americans living in Athens. Both are romantically unattached when they meet one hot summer Friday. Their instantaneous chemistry leads to a whirlwind weekend and questions about their future when they wake up Monday.

(Country: US, Greece; Year: 2020; Director: Argyris Papadimitropoulos; Writer: Rob Hayes, Argyris Papadimitropoulos; Stars: Sebastian Stan, Dominique Tipper, Denise Gough, Vangelis Mourikis, Prometheus Aleifer, Elli Tringou, Andreas Konstantinou, Sofia Kokkali, Syllas Tzoumerkas, Chloe Sirene, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos, Marisha Triantafyllidou, Vasso Kavalieratou, Makis Gazis, Orfeas Avgoustidis)

World premiere

My Zoe

A geneticist recovering from a toxic marriage and is raising her daughter with her ex... but when tragedy strikes, the mother takes matters into her own hands.

(Country: UK, Germany, France; Year: 2019; Director: Julie Delpy; Writer: Julie Delpy; Stars: Julie Delpy, Sophia Ally, Richard Armitage, Daniel Brühl, Gemma Arterton, Saleh Bakri, Kerem Can, Lindsay Duncan, Julia Effertz, Patrick Güldenberg, Luise Helm, Nicolette Krebitz, Nina Kunzendorf, Tijan Marei, Lucas Prisor)

US premiere

Silk Road

Outlines the birth of the darknet marketplace through an elaborate, thrilling cat-and-mouse game between its ambitious creator Ross Ulbricht and disreputable DEA agent desperate to bring down the millennial kingpin.

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Tiller Russell; Writer: David Kushner, Tiller Russell; Stars: Alexandra Shipp, Nick Robinson, Jimmi Simpson, Paul Walter Hauser, Jason Clarke, Katie Aselton, Jordyn Aurora Aquino, Lexi Rabe, Phil Burke, Will Ropp, Travis Hammer, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Ellen Humphreys, Tsailii Rogers, Daniel David Stewart)

World premiere

The Sound Of Philadelphia

Raised as brothers, cousins Peter and Michael are the progeny of Irish hitmen. Thirty years later, both are caught in an endless familial cycle of revenge and destruction.

(Country: US, France, Belgium; Year: 2020; Director: Jérémie Guez; Writer: Peter Dexter, Jérémie Guez; Stars: Joel Kinnaman, Maika Monroe, Ryan Phillippe, Matthias Schoenaerts, Paul Schneider, Antoni Corone, Stilian Keli, Felix Scott, Nicholas Crovetti, Nigel Barber, Craig DiFrancia, Tim Ahern, James Nelson-Joyce, Gary Ayash, Michael McFadden)

World premiere

The Stand-In

A Hollywood actress trades places with her enthusiastic stand-in so that she can take a break from the public eye.

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Jamie Babbit; Writer: Sam Bain; Stars: Drew Barrymore, Ellie Kemper, Holland Taylor, T.J. Miller, Lena Dunham, Michael Zegen, Charlie Barnett, Andrew Rannells, Adrian Martinez, Teddy Coluca, Kristoffe Brodeur, Wendy Meredith, Heather Girardi, John W. Lawson, RayJonaldy Rodriguez)

World premiere

Stardust

Review preview for Stardust

This could have been a fine film if it had been a different story about Bowie or this story about someone else.

Max Crawford · 2 out of 5
In 1971, David Bowie embarked on a transformative road trip through America with struggling publicist Rob Oberman. This film tells the story of the star's reinvention.

(Country: UK; Year: 2020; Director: Gabriel Range; Writer: Christopher Bell, Gabriel Range; Stars: Johnny Flynn, Jena Malone, Marc Maron, Lara Heller, Aaron Poole, Anthony Flanagan, Allie Dunbar, Roanna Cochrane, Annie Briggs, Jorja Cadence, Myles Dobson, Ryan Blakely, Jeremy Legat, Derek Moran, Drew Moss)

Full review

World premiere

The Trip To Greece

The comic chums go on another holiday.

(Country: UK; Year: 2020; Director: Michael Winterbottom; Stars: Rob Brydon, Steve Coogan)

World premiere