Wolfe has tabbed June 30 for the DVD release of
actor-turned-filmmaker Mike Doyle’s Almost
Love, his feature film writing and directing
debut. From what is on the screen, it
will not be his last.
Launched at the Toronto Inside Out Film Festival in
May of last year, Almost Love
worked the festival circuit, with stops at Frameline, Outfest Los Angeles and Westfield
International Film Festival (among many others). The awards piled up and the reviews — from
indie bloggers to mainline entertainment publications — came rolling in.
As with other indie films, you can continue to work
through the festival screening process — building awareness, look for an
arthouse break or move into the home entertainment marketplace. Wolfe, faced with the national theatrical
shutdown, lost the first two options as festival screenings and arthouse
options dried up very quickly after Mar. 20.
So June 30, DVD …
It what could easily be a crossover story, we begin
in New York City where we are introduced to Adam (Scott Evans — Behaving
Badly, Madhouse Mecca), an exceptionally talented
artist, who lives in the background of the prominent commercial artist by the
name of Ravella (played by Patricia Clarkson — Best Supporting Actress nominee
for Pieces of April … as
Ava Paige in the Maze Runner
series, plus two-time Emmy-winner for Six Feet
Under).
Adam is her work-for-hire artist, who has become ever-more frustrated
with the arrangement.
Meanwhile, he is a long-time relationship with Marklin
(Augustus Prew ), who is an “influencer.”
He has made a small fortune as an internet promoter for men’s fashions,
which provides Adam and Marklin a nice lifestyle.
You can’t help but see the irony of Adam, a talented
artist, living in New York City by benefit of his relationship with Marklin,
whose income stream is largely an illusion.
Filmmaker Mike Doyle doesn’t keep the focus just on
Adam’s relationship with Marklin, but expands out the narrative to include
their circle of friends — think along the lines of films like Annie
Hall, Manhattan or
Garry Marshall’s New Year’s Eve. There is plenty of angst to be shared …
relationships, careers and navigating the cityscape of New York.
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