WHO’S IN IT?
Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler), Tatiana Maslany (Woman in Gold), Miranda Richardson (Made in Dagenham), Richard Lane Jr. (What Doesn’t Kill You), Clancy Brown (The Shawshank Redemption), Frankie Shaw (The End of Love), Jimmy LeBlanc (Spotlight), Patty O’Neil (film debut), Carlos Sanz (Crank)
WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?
David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express), director; John Pollono (film debut), writer; Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler), David Hoberman (The Fighter), Todd Lieberman (Beauty and the Beast), Michel Litvak (Drive) and Scott Silver (The House of Yes), producers; Michael Brook (Into The Wild), composer; Sean Bobbitt (12 Years A Slave), composer; Dylan Tichenor (There Will Be Blood), editor
WHAT’S IT ABOUT?
Jeff Bauman (Gyllenhaal) is an underachieving Boston resident who, whilst supporting his girlfriend Erin (Maslany) at the Boston Marathon in 2013, is caught in the terrorist explosion and loses both of his legs in the process. As he finds himself overwhelmed with newfound media attention due to his survival, Jeff struggles to cope with his new life as a disabled man and in the process threatens his relationship with those closest to him…
IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?
Jake Gyllenhaal gives a raw and emotional performance as Jeff Bauman, a survivor of the Boston Marathon bombing, whom he presents as a real and flawed human being as opposed to the inspirational figure he could have easily been.
