The Daytrippers
Q&A with actors Liev Schreiber, Hope Davis and Campbell Scott, moderated by Filmmaker Magazine contributor Vikram Murthi.
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.
The Paris Theater is proud to partner with Filmmaker Magazine, a publication of The Gotham Film & Media Institute, on FILMMAKER MAGAZINE PRESENTS, a monthly screening series dedicated to connecting audiences with the new and established film artists who make New York City the center of independent media culture.
Q&A with actors Liev Schreiber, Hope Davis and Campbell Scott, moderated by Filmmaker Magazine contributor Vikram Murthi.
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.
The Paris Theater is proud to partner with Filmmaker Magazine, a publication of The Gotham Film & Media Institute, on FILMMAKER MAGAZINE PRESENTS, a monthly screening series dedicated to connecting audiences with the new and established film artists who make New York City the center of independent media culture.
