The Daytrippers
The Daytrippers • 1h 27m
Directed by Greg Mottola • 1996 • United States
Starring Parker Posey, Hope Davis, Liev Schreiber
With its droll humor and bittersweet emotional heft, the feature debut of writer-director Greg Mottola announced the arrival of an unassumingly sharp-witted new talent on the 1990s indie film scene. When she discovers a love letter written to her husband (Stanley Tucci) by an unknown paramour, the distraught Eliza (Hope Davis) turns to her tight-knit Long Island family for advice. Soon the entire clan—strong-willed mom (Anne Meara), taciturn dad (Pat McNamara), and jaded sister (Parker Posey) with pretentious boyfriend (Liev Schreiber) in tow—has squeezed into a station wagon and headed into Manhattan to find out the truth, kicking off a one-crazy-day odyssey full of unexpected detours and life-changing revelations. Performed with deadpan virtuosity by a top-flight ensemble cast, THE DAYTRIPPERS is a wry and piercing look at family bonds stretched to the breaking point.
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THE DAYTRIPPERS Commentary
This commentary was recorded in June 2019 and features writer-director Greg Mottola, editor Anne McCabe, and producer Steven Soderbergh.
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Mottola, Posey, Schreiber, and Scott ...
This conversation between THE DAYTRIPPERS writer-director Greg Mottola and actors Parker Posey and Liev Schreiber was recorded by the Criterion Collection in New York in June 2019. Actor Campbell Scott joined by phone.
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Mottola and Davis on THE DAYTRIPPERS
In this program, THE DAYTRIPPERS writer-director Greg Mottola and actor Hope Davis sit down for a conversation at the Criterion Collection’s New York offices in June 2019.
