Before Today’s Sundance Premiere, ‘American Beauty’ Scribe Alan Ball Talks About His Film ‘Uncle Frank’

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Alan Ball is in Sundance today to premiere Uncle Frank, a drama set in 1973. An 18-year old and her NYU professor uncle take a road trip to their South Carolina home to bury the prof’s father, who …

, a drama set in 1973. An 18-year old and her NYU professor uncle take a road trip to their South Carolina home to bury the prof’s father, who rejected his son when he learned he was gay. The trip will rear up past trauma that Frank has done his best to suppress. The road trippers are joined unexpectedly by the prof’s lover Walid in a drama about family, tragedy and forgiveness.

, Sophia Lillis, Margo Martindale, Judy Greer, Steve Zahn, Peter Macdissi and Stephen Root. Here, Ball talks about this love labor and his concerns about a business where personal stories like this one are being crowded out.Teyonah Parris Joins Elizabeth Olsen And Paul Bettany For 'WandaVision' As Monica Rambeau: Paul Bettany is the center of this movie, and he so immersed in his performance as the title character that I didn’t immediately realize it was him.

: Two things actually. One is in my own personal history. My sister was killed in a car accident when I was 13 years old, on her 22nd birthday, and it was a very traumatic, life-changing experience. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized how you keep going back to those moments, usually not on your own volition and usually not voluntarily. But your life will say, it’s time to revisit this, and try to make some sense of it again.

: Well, I made one movie since American Beauty. That was a movie called Towelhead, which did not do well, critically or financially. At that point, I think people were like, oh, he’s TV. And I didn’t direct American Beauty. But I wonder if American Beauty would even get made today.: It was pretty easy the way it happened back then, because Steven Spielberg read it and said, yes, let’s make this movie.

 

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