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Jon Stewart's film "Irresistible" releases May 29.
Focus Features, the film's distributor, hasn't made a ton of information available. Initially announced in October 2018, details around the plot and casting have been limited, to say the least.
Deadline and others report a similar plot description: Carell will play a Democratic strategist named Gary who sees potential in a retired Marine Colonel (Chris Cooper) after a video of him standing up for undocumented workers in Wisconsin goes viral. But the Republican party has a weapon of its own in Faith (Rose Byrne), a strategist with her own agenda, poised to topple the plans that Gary has in place. The small-town race quickly spirals out of control. Rumors suggest that Topher Grace could play the part of the Republican candidate, but no details about that character are available at this time. Lyonne and Messing's roles are also undisclosed at this time.
The fact that Stewart wrote and directed the film is already pretty great, but when you factor in that it's being produced by Brad Pitt's production company, Plan B Entertaiment, that makes it even better. (In case you're not a production buff, Plan B was also behind Moonlight, Moneyball, and Carell's Beautiful Boy.) This is also the second time that Stewart has directed a film, following his 2014 film Rosewater.
Focus Features announced the May 29 release date this week.
Deadline and others report a similar plot description: Carell will play a Democratic strategist named Gary who sees potential in a retired Marine Colonel (Chris Cooper) after a video of him standing up for undocumented workers in Wisconsin goes viral. But the Republican party has a weapon of its own in Faith (Rose Byrne), a strategist with her own agenda, poised to topple the plans that Gary has in place. The small-town race quickly spirals out of control. Rumors suggest that Topher Grace could play the part of the Republican candidate, but no details about that character are available at this time. Lyonne and Messing's roles are also undisclosed at this time.
The fact that Stewart wrote and directed the film is already pretty great, but when you factor in that it's being produced by Brad Pitt's production company, Plan B Entertaiment, that makes it even better. (In case you're not a production buff, Plan B was also behind Moonlight, Moneyball, and Carell's Beautiful Boy.) This is also the second time that Stewart has directed a film, following his 2014 film Rosewater.
Focus Features announced the May 29 release date this week.
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