Owen Wilson, Imogen Poots, and Jennifer Aniston in “She’s Funny That Way” opens exclusively at Ayala Malls Cinemas
From
renowned director Peter Bogdanovich, “She’s Funny That Way” is a screwball
comedy featuring the interconnected personal lives of the cast and crew of a
Broadway production. Celebrated and acclaimed director Peter Bogdanovich has
assembled a stellar ensemble cast, headed by Owen Wilson, Imogen Poots, Kathryn
Hahn, Will Forte, Rhys Ifans, and Jennifer Aniston all working together at the
top of their form.
“She’s
Funny That Way” rolls when established director Arnold Albertson (Owen Wilson)
casts his call girl-turned-actress Isabella “Izzy” Patterson (Imogen Poots) in
a new play to star alongside his wife Delta (Kathryn Hahn) and her ex-lover
Seth Gilbert (Rhys Ifans), a zany love tangle forms with hilarious twists. Jennifer Aniston plays Izzy’s therapist Jane,
who is consumed with her own failing relationship with Arnold’s playwright
Joshua Fleet (Will Forte), who is also developing a crush on Izzy.
“She’s
Funny That Way” is a classic style romantic comedy, with touches of the equally
classic screwball comedy, in the best sense of those words. Although completely
modern in its characters, situations, and settings, it’s a film that harkens
back to the landmarks of the genre from Hollywood’s heyday of the 30s and 40s,
with sparkling wit, charm, and sophistication amidst the craziest and zaniest
of premises and situations.
The
movie also marks the long awaited return to the big screen of Peter
Bogdanovich, one of the most acclaimed filmmakers of his generation. After a
fifteen year absence, during which he directed films for television, the
documentary “Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin’ Down a Dream,” acted, and
wrote about the movies, Bogdanovich also returns to the comedy genre, which he
was so adept at with his early classics, the critically acclaimed, box office
hits “What’s Up, Doc?” and “Paper Moon,” as well as the cult favorite, “They
All Laughed.”
“The
cameos in the film are really terrific,” says producer Holly Wiersma. “We were
in New York and we wanted She’s Funny That Way to really be a New York movie,
so it was great to call people the day of or the day before and say, ‘Hey, come
be in our movie. Help us sell New York. This is a movie about Broadway and
famous people. Let’s use that to our advantage and put fun people into the
cameos, even if they don’t say anything on screen. So we started with Graydon
Carter, as Owen Wilson’s limo driver, who’s one of the first people you see
when we flashback from Isabella’s interview to New York a few years earlier.
With Graydon, it doesn’t get any more New York than that. And then Owen Wilson
walks into the hotel and there’s a friend of mine, an actor who lives in
California and New York – Jake Hoffman, Dustin Hoffman’s son. We’d run into him
in the Bowery and said, ‘Come, be in the movie.’ And then Owen Wilson walks to
the hotel desk and there’s the amazing artist and designer, Scott Campbell,
who’s walking by. And the one who is walking with him is Erin Heatherton, the
Victoria Secret supermodel. We wanted to open the first New York scene with
famous New York faces.”
“She’s
Funny That Way” opens exclusively at Ayala Malls Cinemas nationwide on October
7.
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