World Premiere
Monogamy
Encounters
| USA
| 94 MINUTES
| English
Drama, Thriller
Thirtysomethings Theo (Chris Messina) and Nat (Rashida Jones) are engaged to be married. They live what seems to be on all counts a comfortable life of love, music, and laughter in their cozy Brooklyn apartment. But Theo is bored with his job as a wedding photographer—the generic backgrounds, the artificial posing, the stilted newlyweds—so he develops the unconventional side business "Gumshoot," a service where clients hire him to secretly stalk them with his camera. When he is called out on a job to snap pics of an exhibitionist mystery woman (Meital Dohan), a simple gig develops into a voyeuristic obsession that forces Theo to confront uncomfortable truths about himself and his impending marriage.
Glowing with pitch-perfect performances by Messina and Jones, the first narrative feature from Oscar®-nominated director Dana Adam Shapiro (Murderball) marries a mystery-thriller with a slice-of-life relationship drama to present a marvelously observed portrait of masculinity in crisis in the face of its own fantasies and fears of commitment.
Cast & Credits
Directed by
Dana Adam Shapiro and Dana Adam Shapiro
Dana Adam Shapiro co-directed and produced the Oscar®-nominated documentary Murderball. His animated short My Biodegradable Heart premiered at the Festival in 2007. He is the writer of the upcoming movie Holler and is currently writing the pilot for the new HBO drama Screenz.
Director
Dana Adam Shapiro
Screenwriter
Dana Adam Shapiro, Evan M. Wiener
Director of Photography
Doug Emmett
Co Producer
Jeremy L. Kotin
Primary Cast
Chris Messina, Rashida Jones, Meital Dohan, Ivan Martin, Zak Orth, Sarah Burns
Producers
Jeff Mandel, Randy Manis, Tom Heller, Dana Adam Shapiro
Contacts
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Winner of Best New York Narrative Award. Click for Showtimes