THE CLIMB (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Michael Angelo Covino (Absence), Kyle Marvin (film debut), Gayle Rankin (Blow the Man Down), Judith Godrèche (Potiche), Talia Balsam (Little Manhattan), George Wendt (Dreamscape), Daniella Covino (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Michael Angelo Covino (film debut), director, writer, producer; Kyle Marvin (film debut), writer, producer; Noah Lang (Here Alone), producer; Martin Mabz (film debut) and Jon Natchez (The Things We’ve Seen), composers; Zach Kuperstein (The Eyes of My Mother), cinematographer; Sara Shaw (The Miseducation of Cameron Post), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Best friends Mike (Covino) and Kyle (Marvin) share a close relationship, until Mike reveals that he has slept with Kyle’s fiancé. Over a number of years that follow, their friendship is constantly tested as they try to assess their own loyalty to each other…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Expanded from their 2018 short film of the same name, Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin star and writer (with the former directing) in this funny and endearing examination of a toxic friendship.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 23RD OCTOBER 2020

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