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No Future

2020 Official Selection: Features

World Premiere

FEATURE | United States | 89 MINUTES |

NO FUTURE

Drama

When an estranged friend shows up on his porch one night, Will (Charlie Heaton) doesn’t know what to say. As a recovering addict trying to get his life back on track between meetings, he shows clear signs of continued abuse. Will’s uncomfortable old wounds are quickly made worse when news arrives the next morning of a fatal overdose.

Overcome by grief, Will returns home to find a community still holding on to memories of the damage left in his wake, and his friend’s grieving mother Claire (Catherine Keener) struggles to come to terms with her son’s death. Reconnecting with Claire after years apart, the two’s relationship soon transforms into an affair that comes to both comfort and distort their complicated feelings of guilt and grief. Sensitively depicting the collective trauma plaguing countless communities throughout the country, directors Mark Smoot and Andrew Irvine craft an empathetic and emotionally precise drama, grounded in Keener and Heaton’s remarkably sensitive performances.—Cameron Sinz


CAST & CREDITS

Directed by Mark Smoot and Andrew Irvine

Andy Irvine and Mark Smoot first wrote and directed the short +/-, which premiered at SXSW in 2015. Their first feature The Love Inside was accepted into The Austin Film Society’s Artist Intensive Workshop and premiered at the 2015 Dallas International Film Festival where it received a Special Jury Prize.

Director
Andrew Irvine, Mark Smoot
Producer
Jonathan Duffy, Kelly Williams, Jeff Walker, Lisa Normand
Screenwriter
Mark Smoot
Cinematographer
Jomo Fray
Editor
Brad Besser
Composer
Jon Natchez
Cast
Catherine Keener, Charlie Heaton, Rosa Salazar, Jackie Earle Haley, Austin Amelio, Jefferson White

CONTACTS

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