Official Movie Website Theatrical Release 02/29/08 (St. Louis) Home Video Not Available MPAA Rating PG-13 for Sexual Content, Language and Brief Nudit y Running Time 1 hour 51 minutes Genre Drama Director Andrew Wagner Writer Andrew Wagner, Fred Parnes Cast Briana Evigan, Robert Hoffman, Adam G. Sevani, Cassie, Danielle Polanco, Christopher Scott, Mari Koda Studio Roadhouse |
STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING (2007)
SYNOPSIS
All that remains for Leonard Schiller (Frank
Langella) is to finish the novel he has been laboring
on for almost ten years. With his four earlier books
out of print, he has learned to starve himself of the
desire for the success he was once so close to,
though beneath this practice lives a pull for his work
to be rediscovered. His solitary writer's life is
shaken by the arrival of Heather (Lauren Ambrose),
an ambitious graduate student who persuades him
that she can use her thesis to spur a rediscovery of
his work. But as her inquiry proceeds, Heather
displays a profound personal interest in Leonard,
which unsettles him and stirs up his long-dormant
need for intimacy. Meanwhile, Leonard’s daughter
Ariel (Lili Taylor) reconnects with her ex-boyfriend
Casey (Adrian Lester), a man Leonard firmly
disapproves of. Leonard’s encounters with Heather
lead him down an unfamiliar path that threatens his
writing, his health, and his relationship to his
daughter. But in living out in the open, in the evening
of his life Schiller puts into practice the core theme
of his novels -- life is not designed for our comfort
but for our struggle, for in struggle there is growth.
.-- ©Roadhouse
All that remains for Leonard Schiller (Frank
Langella) is to finish the novel he has been laboring
on for almost ten years. With his four earlier books
out of print, he has learned to starve himself of the
desire for the success he was once so close to,
though beneath this practice lives a pull for his work
to be rediscovered. His solitary writer's life is
shaken by the arrival of Heather (Lauren Ambrose),
an ambitious graduate student who persuades him
that she can use her thesis to spur a rediscovery of
his work. But as her inquiry proceeds, Heather
displays a profound personal interest in Leonard,
which unsettles him and stirs up his long-dormant
need for intimacy. Meanwhile, Leonard’s daughter
Ariel (Lili Taylor) reconnects with her ex-boyfriend
Casey (Adrian Lester), a man Leonard firmly
disapproves of. Leonard’s encounters with Heather
lead him down an unfamiliar path that threatens his
writing, his health, and his relationship to his
daughter. But in living out in the open, in the evening
of his life Schiller puts into practice the core theme
of his novels -- life is not designed for our comfort
but for our struggle, for in struggle there is growth.
.-- ©Roadhouse
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