PRIVATE LIFE (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Kathryn Hahn (Bad Moms), Paul Giamatti (Sideways), Kayli Carter (Rings), Molly Shannon (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl), Denis O’Hare (Charlie Wilson’s War), Emily Robinson (Broken Vows), John Carroll Lynch (The Founder), Desmin Borges (Compliance), Francesca Root-Dodson (Rebel in the Rye)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Tamara Jenkins (The Savages), director, writer; Stefanie Azpiazu (Enough Said) and Anthony Bregman (Foxcatcher), producers; Christos Voudouris (Before Midnight), cinematographer; Brian A. Kates (Killing Them Softly), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Richard (Giamatti) and Rachel (Hahn) are a couple who are struggling to maintain their marriage as they undergo multiple fertility therapies, which becomes trickier after they begin to warm to the idea of third party reproduction…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Paul Giamatti and Kathryn Hahn make for a dysfunctional couple in the latest film from Tamara Jenkins, the Oscar-nominated writer of The Savages.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

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