Nightbitch

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Nightbitch

Preview Screening and Q&A with Director Marielle Heller—November 6

Six-time Academy Award® nominee Amy Adams (Arrival, American Hustle) stars as a woman who pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mom, but soon her new domesticity takes a surreal turn as she becomes aware of the bizarre and undeniable signs that she may be turning into a dog.

Director, writer, producer Marielle Heller (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Can You Ever Forgive Me?) brings her satirical and singular vision to Nightbitch, based on the acclaimed debut novel by Rachel Yoder.

Full release begins on December 6—Westchester Exclusive!

"Heller intends to comfort more than to freak us out. This isn’t a horror film so much as a healthy allegory for anyone who feels differently after having a child."
Peter Debruge, Variety
"It is piercingly honest, remarkably sardonic, and breathtakingly brave in the way it lays bare some of women's deepest struggles and truths. But it is not a film that is anti-motherhood. It celebrates it as well, in all of its primal, animalistic, savage contradictions and complexities."
Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly

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Q&A with Director Marielle Heller

Q&A with Director Marielle Heller

Wednesday, Nov. 6 2024, 7:00

  • Marielle Heller is an award-winning director, writer, actor, and producer who has built an impressive and multifaceted career carefully constructing a unique and compassionate voice that has earned her critical acclaim. Previously, Heller directed A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood starring Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers, which earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar® nomination. She also directed the three-time Academy Award-nominated film Can You Ever Forgive Me?, starring Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant, just three years after the release of her highly lauded directorial debut, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, which earned her an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature as well as a DGA nomination for First Time Feature Film. As an actor, she starred as Alma Wheatley in director and writer Scott Frank’s critically acclaimed limited series The Queen’s Gambit alongside Anya Taylor-Joy. Heller is also the founder of Defiant by Nature, a production company focused on telling stories that uplift, inspire, and entertain while simultaneously shining a light on women and non-binary creators. The company’s first release was a filmed version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony nominated play What The Constitution Means To Me, written by and starring Heidi Schreck and directed by Heller, for which she received a DGA nomination.

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