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Leaving February 28
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1h 26m
Directed by Shannon Plumb • 2013 • United States
Starring Shannon Plumb, Derek Cianfrance, Lora Lee Gayer
Keatonesque slapstick meets woman-on-the-edge psychodrama in this singular, tonally audacious exploration of modern motherhood, performance, and identity. Displaying a brilliance for both physical comedy and Cindy Sherman–esque transformation, Shannon Plumb writes, directs, and stars as Penelope, a Brooklyn mother of two who struggles to traverse the daily obstacle course that is motherhood with little help from her filmmaker husband (played by Plumb’s real-life filmmaker husband Derek Cianfrance). In a desperate quest to assert her own artistic voice, Penelope begins inhabiting a series of outlandish characters and alternate identities in an existential journey that’s by turns antically funny and unsettling.
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