“Extremely well developed ...and overall it's just a very solid and moving piece.”
Sundance Feature Film Program
“This screenplay is the real deal; emotionally truthful, engaging characters,
and a very strong ending. -The last ten pages of this screenplay are as gut-wrenchingly
suspenseful and emotionally involving as anything I've read for the screen...a
really wonderful film, Ken Loach meets John Cassavetes. My compliments!”
Slamdance Screenplay Competition (1st round)
“An Entire Body is a classic, linear and completely successful intimate drama
boasting stunningly fine characterizations, right on plot development and a
thoroughly satisfying (though poignant) ending. -This is a solid and emotionally
compelling, good old fashioned drama, economically written and one that sticks
faithfully to its story, illuminating and ultimately ennobling the resilience
and persistence of human love and the human spirit in the face of crushing
adversity.”
Slamdance Screenplay Competition (2nd round)
“I couldn't put it down... The story is very compelling. The dialogue is very
good and distinct to each character. The structure is solid and the scenes
are well paced. The characters are well drawn and unique.”
Susan Kouguell, Su-City Pictures
“An Entire Body is a sensitive and perceptive drama with an assured sense
of character and structure. -The great strength in the story is its unrelenting
tension. -The characters are strongly defined and multi-faceted. The story
is also tightly structured, with a careful, subtle series of setups and payoffs.”
Film Independent Screenwriter's Lab
An Entire Body is five days in the life of Angela Jacobs, a single mother in Las Vegas who becomes pressured to give up her eight year old daughter in an under the table adoption.
Awards
The screenplay An Entire Body was honored as one of the top three winners in the Slamdance Feature Screenplay Competition. Past winners include Joshua Marston's Maria Full of Grace and Nicole Kassell's The Woodsman.
Production
An Entire Body stars Lauren Ambrose (Starting Out in the Evening, Six Feet Under), and features Denis O'Hare & Jayne Atkinson. It is being produced by Michael S. Ryan (Junebug, Choke) and is slated for a fall production.
Synopsis
An Entire Body is an unflinching portrait of the daily trials and painful choices confronting America's working poor. It truthfully dramatizes the experience of the struggling single mother - a segment of the population rarely represented with dignity on-screen - and does so with compassion and without a hint of moralizing. A forceful emotional experience that builds to a shattering climax, An Entire Body seamlessly merges closely-observed realism with taut suspense, resulting in a story that is as important as it is moving.
ANGELA | LAUREN AMBROSE (IMDb)(film: WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, LOVE AND OTHER IMPOSSIBLE PURSUITS, A DOG YEAR, STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING, COLD SOULS, DIGGERS, theater: ROMEO & JULIET, EXIT THE KING, AWAKE AND SING!, BURIED CHILD, tv: HBO series SIX FEET UNDER as Claire Fisher, received two Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series)
MAX |
DENIS O’HARE (IMDb)(film: DUPLICITY, CHANGELING, CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR, MICHAEL CLAYTON, A MIGHTY HEART, HALF NELSON, STEPHANIE DALEY, GARDEN STATE, 21 GRAMS, theater: 2003 Tony Award Best Actor TAKE ME OUT, tv: BROTHERS & SISTERS)
LOUISE | JAYNE ATKINSON (IMDb)(film: SYRIANA, TWELVE AND HOLDING, THE VILLAGE, theater: Nominated for Tony Award as Best Actress The RAINMAKER and ENCHANTED APRIL, tv: 24, JOAN OF ARCADIA, THE EDUCATION OF MAX BICKFORD)
TED |
DAVID CONRAD (IMDb)(film: THE WEDDING CRASHERS, ANYTHING ELSE, MEN OF HONOR, THE WEEKEND, RETURN TO PARADISE, tv: GHOST WHISPERER, ROSWELL, BOSTON PUBLIC, HOUSE, MISS MATCH, RELATIVITY)
