By Ryan Parsons | Image property of Freestyle Releasing
Winter Passing Movie Poster
Usually when there is a film featuring Will Ferrell coming to theatres just about everybody and their mother knows about. However, in the case of Winter Passing, we have a film with a solid cast, including a strange looking Ed Harris, that has continued to remain under the radar.
With a limited release on February 17th and a wider release early March, we figured a quick preview was in order.
Winter Passing Trailer
Winter Passing charts the fractious reunion of an estranged father and daughter. Struggling twenty-something actress Reese Holden (Zooey Deschanel) has been promised a small fortune for publication of love letters written by her legendary, but reclusive father, novelist Don Holden (Ed Harris), to his late wife, also an acclaimed writer and Reese's mother. In search of these letters, Reese journeys from New York City back home for the first time since her angst filled childhood, she arrives to find her father in flagrant disregard of his own health and living with two younger housemates: Shelly (Amelia Warner), a former grad student of Don's with a maternal streak and the other, Corbit (Will Ferrell) a would-be Christian rock musician.
Though no angel herself, Reese does not approve of her father's ad-hoc "family" and does her best to rattle the arrangement they have set up. Little by little, Reese comes to appreciate her unlikely new siblings and as secrets are revealed, Reese comes to terms with her father, their shared past and hopeful future.
The cast of Winter Passing includes Ed Harris, Zooey Deschanel, Will Ferrell, Amelia Warner, Rachel Dratch, Amy Madigan.
It is hard to figure out the role that Ferrell is playing. Is he just a really shy guy or somebody who rode the shorter bus to school? I also got to hand it to Ed Harris for looking even stranger than he did in History of Violence.
Zooey Deschanel? Her big eyes were enough to carry audiences through Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and I wouldn't mind seeing a few more close-up shots of her.
You can check out the trailer for Winter Passing by going to the official site.
Winter Passing comes to theatres on February 17th.
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