Alan Ball’s ‘Uncle Frank’ Acquired By Amazon: Sundance
, Sophia Lillis, Peter Macdissi, Steve Zahn, Judy Greer, Margo Martindale and Stephen Root. Bettany plays the title character, a revered NYU professor who takes his 18-year old niece — a student at the school — on a road trip home to Creekville, South Carolina to bury his father. Frank dreads the journey, because he and his father had been estranged the moment the father discovered his son was gay. They’re unexpectedly joined on the road trip by Frank’s lover, Walid .
The film is produced by Ball, Macdissi, Michael Costigan, Jay Van Hoy and Bill Block, whose Miramax financed the picture. The film premiered last Friday at Eccles.
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