The two sensitive males are played to understated perfection: August Blanco Rosenstein as sad-eyed Mitch Hrlicka, the school’s reluctant backup quarterback, and Ed Harris as Horace Jones, whose life of quiet routine is shaped around a shattering turn of events on the home front.Īs to the other men in town, Julia receives an eye-opening introduction on her first visit to Hugo’s, a downtown watering hole that the principal has warned her to avoid. In the novel, Julia and the other two main protagonists - a student and a septuagenarian diner regular - don’t interact here, to varying degrees, they do.
BABY OWL BOOKENDS MOVIE
If you’ve been mourning that classic cinematic device of the one-sided phone call - the stuff of indelible movie moments through the ages, the power of which simply can’t be matched by onscreen glances at text messages - Hamish’s screenplay revivifies the tactic, and Rabe delivers exquisite work in Julia’s strained conversations with her husband, father and mother, culminating in a wrenching sequence as she hovers precariously over the edge, or perhaps the bottom.
The disconnect between them is as clear as rural daylight in her inebriated late night calls home. More than the blizzard, this is the shadow that hangs over the story: the way so much of Julia’s marriage, including the possibility of kids, hinges on her spouse’s career plans as he aims for tenure track. The timing of this stint, she overeagerly tells nearly every grown-up she meets, is designed to give space to her husband (unnamed, unseen, unheard) as he enters the final laps of his doctoral thesis back in Milwaukee. The main action begins in September 1983, when Rabe’s Julia Rabia arrives in tiny Owl for a one-semester teaching job at the high school, having been recommended to the principal (a brief, comic turn by Linklater) by her professor father. Screenwriter: Hamish Linklater based on the novel by Chuck Klosterman Venue: Tribeca Film Festival (Spotlight Narrative)Ĭast: Lily Rabe, Ed Harris, Vanessa Hudgens, August Blanco Rosenstein, Jack Dylan Grazer, Finn Wittrock, Henry Golding, Arianna Jaffier, Hamish Linklater, Arden Michalec, Ben Shaw, Emma Halleen
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