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MARRIED LIFE

A strong blend of suspense, star-crossed romance, and wry comedy of manners, Married Life is

an unconventional human drama about the irresistible power and utter madness of love.

Harry (Chris Cooper) decides he must kill his wife Pat (Patricia Clarkson) because he loves her

too much to let her suffer when he leaves her. Harry and his much-younger girlfriend Kay

(Rachel McAdams) are head over heels in love, but his best friend Richard (Pierce Brosnan)

wants to win Kay for himself.

As Harry implements his awkward plans for murdering his wife, the other characters are occupied

with their own deceptions. Like Harry, they are overwhelmed by their passions. but still struggle

to avoid hurting others.

Married Life is an uncommonly adult film that surprises and confounds expectations. While it

plays with mystery and intrigue, its ultimate concern is: “What is married life?”

In its sly way, Married Life poses perceptive questions about the seasonal discontents and

unforeseen joys of all long-term relationships.

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ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

Writer/director Ira Sachs (Forty Shades of Blue, Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner, 2005) is an

ardent film buff, with a particular love for 1940s and 1950s movies, particularly ones starring

Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. “What I like about those movies is that the dramas can be so

extreme and outrageous and yet they deal with people’s personal lives in ways that communicate

powerfully with audiences,” says Sachs. “I wanted to do a film that would talk frankly and

directly about the complexities and intricacies of marriage and intimate life—and I thought that in

today’s film context, a movie like this could be a fresh way to do so.”

Looking for a story to adapt, Sachs pored over stacks of little-known mystery and pulp novels,

until he came upon John Bingham’s Five Roundabouts to Heaven. “It was exactly what I was

looking for—a really great story about being married,” he says. “I thought this story could be a

very intriguing vehicle for me to explore what it’s like to share a bed with someone, over a long

period of time.”

When Sachs began working with his co-writer, Oren Moverman, they agreed that the film should

have a playful tone. “I tried to signal that right away, in the credit sequence,” says Sachs. “The

credits give a sense that there is whimsy in the very serious things to follow. I wanted the

audience to understand that they don’t need to take every action too literally. Now that doesn’t

deny the serious nature of what happens between these characters, and I certainly don’t want to

undercut the effect of going through these experiences with them, I just don’t want the audience

to over-think the story.”

“Every time I describe the film in a one-sentence line—people smile,” Sachs continues. “And

there’s a reason for that. It’s over-the-top. A gentle, middle-aged man who falls in love decides

to kill his wife because divorce would cause her too much pain. You could maybe find it hard to

understand the decision our protagonist, Harry (Chris Cooper) makes, but that’s looking at the

story too literally. It’s really more of a metaphor. I find Harry very familiar—all too many

people have difficulty choosing themselves over their marriage. All the same, he’s not an easy

character to make sympathetic, and I needed someone to play him that the audience would always

empathize and identify with. And Chris Cooper makes a very good Everyman.”

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Harry’s assumption that his wife Pat (Patricia Clarkson) can’t live without him is based on a

complete misunderstanding of who she is. “There’s immense narcissism to his actions,” says

Sachs. “He considers himself of such importance that he thinks Pat would be better off dead than

without him—and he’s totally wrong. He’s lost and he doesn’t know his way out, but instead of

choosing an honest way, he chooses a dishonest one and that leads him into a lot of trouble. But

as it turns out, Harry turns out to not be a particularly good murderer, which is part of the humor

of the film.”

“I think Harry’s big flaw is that he expects too much,” says Cooper. “When Kay comes to meet

Harry and Richard at the restaurant, it caps what Harry wants all the time. In Noel Coward’s

words, he’s looking for that ‘first, fine careless rapture.’ I think he had it with his wife, but it

didn’t last, and now Harry is carried away by his curious need for something more. He could be

going through what we all call a mid-life crisis.”

“Harry starts out in the film like a young man in love,” says Sachs. “He’s like a kid in a candy

store. And then things get more serious for him because adult life is not like that adolescent joy

from first love—there are too many complications that spring from all the history that’s come

before.”

Sachs sees Harry’s friend Richard (Pierce Brosnan) as the most fun character in the film. “He’s

intelligent, he’s charming, he has a wicked, dry sense of humor,” says Sachs, “he gives pleasure

to everyone around him. And Pierce Brosnan brings lightness and a mischievous energy to

Richard, while also showing you his vulnerability. He makes him a cad you hopefully will come

to love.”

Richard is involved in what might be seen as the biggest betrayal in the film—trying to seduce

and steal away Kay (Rachel McAdams), the love of Harry’s life and the woman he sees as his

sole hope for happiness. “I’m not going to try to defend what Richard does,” says Sachs, “but

this story is about how people pursue their desires, and each of these characters pursues them

with great passion. And that’s not necessarily when people are the most kind to everyone around

them. And to be honest, haven’t we all done things for ourselves at some point, rather than for

the people we love?”

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“Richard really is intoxicated by Kay,” says Brosnan, “but at the same time it’s his best friend, so

there’s a little tug of guilt in his heart. But he doesn’t have any burden of conscience, that’s the

mantra of Richard. He talks about the burden of conscience, but basically he wants Kay. Also,

Harry and Pat are Richard’s only true friends—they really know him. And if Harry goes off with

Kay, and breaks up his marriage, Richard loses everything.”

For the role of Kay, Sachs needed an actress who would leave no doubt about her ability to

enchant Harry and Richard. “The whole drama turns on Kay,” says Sachs. “She’s the star in the

middle of the universe between these two men. When Kay walks into the Cloud Room restaurant

in the opening of the movie, you needed to have someone with whom these two men could

believably fall in love with. Obviously Rachel McAdams has the loveliness, but more

importantly, she has a mystery—and that’s what holds your interest. She’s very touching and

sympathetic, but at the same time, she holds things back. There’s always something going on just

under the surface.”

Kay is a character who has suffered an incredible amount of loss—her father died when she was

young, and she recently lost both her mother and her husband. “She’s spent a lot of time with

herself, and I think she’s lost touch with reality a little bit,” says McAdams. “I think she’s drawn

to Harry because they’re both a little bit broken, and need mending—and they comfort each

other.”

“Kay sees Harry as someone who can give her a home, security and love” says Sachs, “and that

means economic security, strength, consistency, and a kind of paternal comfort. It’s a feeling of

paternal love that she has transformed into a romantic love for Harry. I think that at the start of

the film she believes that she has met the man of her life. Unfortunately, she then meets a man

who might be even better. I think things would have been good for her and Harry, but when she

meets Richard, it suddenly seems the world could not only be safe, but big.” “When Richard

comes along,” says McAdams, “Kay starts to feel the wind in her hair and the leather seats in his

car. He brings her out of her shell.”

Harry’s wife, Pat (Patricia Clarkson), is also someone who’s trying to find her way in life. “She

doesn’t know what she wants,” says Sachs. “She’s in great conflict. She’s someone who has

come to the point in her life where she feels the need for a little more, but she can’t make a

decision.” “Pat has lived a rather conventional life,” says Clarkson, “but she isn’t conventional

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herself. She thinks people have a self-deceiving attitude about love, and that it’s really only about

sex. So if she fulfills that, she’s fulfilling her wifely duties. I do think she has a real relationship

with Harry—it isn’t some false marriage—but I don’t think it was ever a deep, romantic love.

And there’s something to be said for a woman, particularly at that point in her life when she has

to look down the barrel of growing old with her husband, wanting that as well.”

“A lot of people, particularly women, identify with Pat more than any of the other characters in

the movie,” says Sachs. “She seems like someone you know. And Patty imbues her with an

earthiness, and a wry, loving nature. Pat’s full of life, passion and tenderness, and that gives her

such poignancy, as she is the woman who Harry is plotting to kill.”

Both Harry and Pat are characters that are frightened of their own needs. “They both feel guilty,”

says Sachs. “I believe on some level it’s because of the formal structure of married life. It’s a

very monolithic way of living, and I think the people inside these monoliths are struggling. I

think that anyone who is married or in a relationship has some understanding of that. You can’t

point a finger at these characters if you’re being honest with yourself.”

“The most important thing for me was that the tone of Married Life not be a cynical one,” says

Sachs, “because I don’t feel cynical at all about long-term relationships. I just feel that they’re

always a great, even noble, challenge. You could say it’s a humanist approach to a genre story,

so in the end, it becomes perhaps not really a genre picture at all. Everyone has some level of

good, bad, and beauty in them.”

“Harry’s put Pat and his relationship with her in a box,” says Cooper. “He just settled and didn’t

really appreciate how much he had. It’s a fatal flaw in a lot of relationships. Couples have to

constantly work at keeping their relationships interesting and fresh. And I think Harry lost sight

of that.”

“Marriage is a struggle, and it takes work,” says Brosnan. “You may be challenged in life when

you least expect it. And this film makes you ask yourself: ‘Can you do the honorable thing?’”

“This film sheds a lot of light on the complications of relationships,” says McAdams. “You don’t

always feel what you’re supposed to feel, and you’re not always the person that other people

think you are. You’re not even always the person you think you are, until push comes to shove

and your character is tested.”

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“What I hope the movie does is make people feel less alone,” says Sachs. “When you’re in bed

and you’re feeling slightly alienated from your wife or loved one, you can feel a certain kind of

distance that is painful. And I hope that people will realize that they are just like the person in the

next house, who’s also coping with these kinds of questions.”

“Harry starts off in the beginning of the movie knowing the least about the other characters,”

Sachs continues, “and by the end he knows the most. He’s the one who knows all the secrets. He

has come to wisdom, and through that wisdom has the ability to love.”

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ABOUT THE CAST

CHRIS COOPER (Harry Allen)

One of the most respected character actors of our time, Chris Cooper was recognized in 2003

with an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal

of John Laroche in Columbia Pictures Adaptation, written by Charlie Kaufman (Being John

Malkovich) and directed by Spike Jonze. The film, loosely based on Susan Orlean’s novel, The

Orchid Thief, followed a sexually frustrated screenwriter’s attempts to adapt Orlean’s anecdotal

novel for the screen. Cooper was also recognized for his performance in this film by numerous

critics associations including the Broadcast Film Critics, the Los Angeles Film Critics

Association and Toronto Film Critics Association.

Cooper recently completed production on two films. Alongside Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, and

Jason Bateman, Cooper co-stars in the Universal film The Kingdom, which tells the story of a

team of U.S. government agents who are sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility

in the Middle East. Directed by Peter Berg, the film will be released on September 28th.

Most recently, Cooper starred in the Universal Pictures film Breach, playing the title role of

Robert Hanssen, a renowned operative for the FBI who was found guilty of spying for the

Russians. Cooper received extraordinary praise from movie critics around the country for his deft

performance. The film was directed by Billy Ray (Shattered Glass) and co-stars Ryan Phillipe.

In 2006, Cooper also had strong supporting roles in Sony Classics’ Capote, Universal’s Jarhead,

for director Sam Mendes, and Warner Bros.’ Syriana, for writer and director Stephen Gaghan.

In 2005, Cooper re-teamed with director and friend John Sayles in New Market Film’s Silver

City, a political drama and murder mystery which chronicled the story of a small town in

Colorado and the events leading up to a local election. The impressive cast included Maria Bello,

Thora Birch, Richard Dreyfuss, Tim Roth, Daryl Hannah and Billy Zane. The film was screened

at the Toronto Film Festival.

In 2003, Cooper starred in the Universal Pictures film, Seabiscuit based on the best-selling novel.

Cooper was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild award for his portrayal of Seabiscuit’s trainer,

Tom Smith. Seabiscuit was directed by Gary Ross and also starred Tobey Macguire and Jeff

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Bridges. In the same year, Cooper was nominated for an Emmy Award for his supporting

performance in the HBO film My House in Umbria starring Maggie Smith.

In 2002, Cooper was seen in The Bourne Identity for Universal Pictures in the strong supporting

role as the mastermind of the CIA’s controversial clandestine operation, Treadstone. In 2004, he

appeared in the flashback scenes in the second installment, The Bourne Supremacy.

In 2000 Cooper portrayed Colonel Burwell opposite Mel Gibson in Sony Pictures The Patriot, a

Revolutionary War epic directed by Roland Emmerich. In the same year, Cooper appeared with

Jim Carrey in the comedy Me, Myself and Irene, for directors Peter and Bobby Farrelly.

In 1999 Cooper received a Screen Actor’s Guild Award for his supporting performance alongside

Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening in Dreamworks’ Academy Award winning film, American

Beauty. In a stunning and dramatic display, Cooper portrayed a stern ex-Marine Colonel who

persistently monitored his son’s every move.

In 1999 Cooper starred as the father of an amateur rocket enthusiast in the acclaimed coming-of-

age drama October Sky, which was screened at the 1999 Venice and Deauville Film Festivals

with great notice. He had previously earned a Best Actor nomination in 1997 from the

Independent Spirit Awards for his work in John Sayles’ Lone Star. Nearly a decade earlier,

Cooper made his feature film debut in Sayles’ Matewan.

Among his film credits are Robert Redford’s The Horse Whisperer, Great Expectations, A Time

to Kill, Money Train, This Boy’s Life, Guilty by Suspicion and City of Hope.

On the small screen, he has had roles in a number of long form projects, including the miniseries

Lonesome Dove, and Return to Lonesome Dove. He most recently starred in HBO’s Breast Men,

and includes among his other credits Alone, One More Mountain, Ned Blessing, Bed of Lies,

Darrow, In Broad Daylight, A Little Piece of Sunshine, Law and Order and Journey to Genius.

Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Cooper attended the University of Missouri School of Drama and

started his professional career on the New York stage. His theater credits include “Of the Fields

Lately” on Broadway, “The Ballad of Soapy Smith” and “A Different Moon.”

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Cooper resides in Massachusetts.

PIERCE BROSNAN (Richard Langley)

Recognized internationally as one of the most dashing and skilled dramatic actors in Hollywood

today, Golden Globe Award nominee Pierce Brosnan will next star opposite Meryl Streep in the

film adaptation of the Broadway hit Mamma Mia!

Brosnan received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a

Motion Picture for his role as Julian Noble in the critically acclaimed film The Matador in 2005.

Additionally, he received a nomination for this performance for Best Actor in a Lead Role from

the Irish Film & Television Academy.

Most recently he starred opposite Liam Neeson in Seraphim Falls. The film, about a colonel who

hunts down an officer to settle a wartime grudge at the end of the Civil War, was shot entirely on

location in New Mexico and Oregon.

In addition to his work in front of the camera, Brosnan has always had an interest in the art of

filmmaking. Having achieved international stardom as an actor, Brosnan expanded the range of

his film work by launching his own production company, Irish DreamTime in 1996, along with

producing partner Beau St. Clair.

Apart from The Matador, Irish DreamTime has produced four other films to date: The Nephew

(1998), The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), Evelyn (2002) and Laws of Attraction (2004). The

company's first studio project, The Thomas Crown Affair, was a critical and box-office success

and one of the best-reviewed and highest-grossing romantic thrillers in years. Evelyn, directed by

Bruce Beresford, opened to critical acclaim at the Toronto and Chicago Film Festivals and also

garnered rave reviews. Laws of Attraction, a romantic comedy, which teamed Brosnan with

Julianne Moore, focused on dueling divorce attorneys who fall in love.

Shooting recently wrapped on Irish DreamTime’s sixth production, Butterfly on a Wheel, in

which Brosnan stars with Maria Bello and Gerard Butler. The psychological thriller, which shot

on location in Vancouver and Chicago, centers on a happy couple with a seemingly perfect life

whose daughter is abducted. Over the course of a day, the kidnapper dismantles the family’s lives

with brutal efficiency.

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Perhaps best known worldwide as James Bond, Brosnan reinvigorated the popularity of the Bond

legacy in box-office blockbusters such as Goldeneye (1995), Tomorrow Never Dies (1999), The

World Is Not Enough (1999) and Die Another Day (2002). Brosnan’s first three Bond films

earned over a billion dollars at the international box-office and Die Another Day alone garnered

almost a half-billion dollars worldwide.

In addition to his four Bond films, three other Brosnan films—The Thomas Crown Affair, Dante's

Peak (1997) and The Lawnmower Man (1992) combined have earned hundreds of millions of

dollars internationally, cementing him as one of the world’s most bankable stars.

Brosnan’s other film credits include John Boorman’s critically acclaimed film from the John

LeCarre novel, The Tailor of Panama (2001), Bruce Beresford's Mr. Johnson (1990) and Sir

Richard Attenborough's Grey Owl (1999). In addition to The Matador, Brosnan has also shown

his comedic skills in such films as Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) and Mars Attacks (1996). He also had a

supporting role alongside Barbra Streisand in The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996).

Some of his many accolades include the 2007 Goldene Kamera Award for his environment work,

a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2002 Chicago Film Festival, the International Star of the

Year at the Cinema Expo in Amsterdam, an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the Dublin Institute

of Technology, an Honorary Doctorate from the University College Cork and an Order of the

British Empire bestowed by Her Majesty the Queen.

Brosnan was born in County Meath, Ireland and moved to London at age 11. At 20, he enrolled

in drama school and while in London, performed in several West End stage productions including

Franco Zeffirelli's Fulimena and Tennessee Williams' The Red Devil Battery Sign at the York

Theater Royal.

Brosnan relocated to Los Angeles in 1982 and immediately landed the role of private investigator

Remington Steele on the popular ABC television series of the same name first marking his

worldwide recognition.

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PATRICIA CLARKSON (Pat Allen)

The roles Patricia Clarkson plays are as varied as the platform in which she plays them. Her

comfort in taking on roles from motion pictures, television and the theatre has earned her great

accolades and success, and has become one of today's most respected actresses in the

entertainment industry.

Clarkson is wrapped production on several films including Stanley Tucci's Blind Date in

Belgium., Daniel Banz's directorial debut Phoebe in Wonderland and Woody Allen's Untitled

Spanish project in Barcelona opposite Scarlett Johanson and Javier Bardem.

Blind Date centers around a couple (Tucci and Clarkson) who have lost a child and tries to

rebuild their relationship by pretending to be other people by meeting on blind dates.

In Phoebe in Wonderland she stars opposite Felicity Huffman, Bill Pullman and Elle Fanning.

Clarkson plays the role of an unconventional drama teacher who tries to guide a rebellions little

girl (Fanning).

This fall, Clarkson will be seen in Lars and the Real Girl opposite Ryan Gosling and Emily

Mortimer. Lars is the story of a timid man (Gosling) whose life changes dramatically when an

Internet friend comes to visit. The beautiful, religious missionary is in fact an inanimate replica of

a woman. MGM is releasing the film October 12th.

She will then be seen in Elegy opposite Sir Ben Kingsley and Dennis Hopper. Directed by Isabel

Coixet, the film is based on the novel by Philip Roth about a cultural critic, played by Kingsley,

whose life is thrown into disarray after an encounter with a student. MGM is scheduled to release

the film November 16th.

Additional credits include: All The King's Men, Goodnight, and, Good Luck, The Dying Gaul and

The Woods, Far from Heaven, Pieces of April, The Station Agent, Miracle, High Art, Dogville,

Welcome to Collinwood, The Pledge, The Green Mile, Everybody's All-American, The Dead

Pool, Rocket Gibraltar, Tune in Tomorrow, Joe Gould's Secret, Wendigo and Brian De Palma's

The Untouchables, her film debut.

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In 2003, Clarkson's work in two independent films earned her unparalleled recognition. She was

nominated for an Academy Award, Golden Globe, SAG Award, Broadcast Film Critics Award

and an independent Spirit Award for her role in Pieces of April. In addition, the Sundance Film

Festival awarded her the Jury Prize for Outstanding Performance in Pieces of April, The Station

Agent and All the Real Girls. Her performance in The Station Agent earned her a SAG Award

nomination for Best Actress and Best Ensemble Cast. The National Board of Review and the

National Society of Film Critics named her Best Supporting Actress of the Year for her work in

Pieces of April and The Station Agent.

She also won best-supporting-actress awards from the New York Film Critics Circle and National

Society of Film Critics for her performance in Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven. That role also

earned her a nomination from the Chicago Film Critics.

Her performance as Greta in Lisa Cholodenko's High Art earned her a nomination for an IFP

Independent Spirit Award.

On television, Clarkson won an Emmy in 2006 and 2002 for her guest-starring role on HBO's

acclaimed drama, Six Feet Under.

Clarkson made her professional acting debut on the New York stage. Her theatre credits include

"Eastern Standard" (on and off-Broadway), "Maidens Prayer" (for which she received Outer

Critics Circle and Drama Desk Award Nominations), "Raised in Captivity", "Oliver Oliver", "The

House of Blue Leaves", and "Three Days of Rain". Her regional credits include performances at

the Williamstown Theatre Festival, South Coast Repertory, and Yale Repertory."

Born and raised in New Orleans, Clarkson began acting in school plays in her early teens. After

studying speech at Louisiana State University for two years, she transferred to Fordham

University in New York, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude with a degree in theatre arts.

She earned her MFA at the prestigious Yale School of Drama, where she appeared in "Electra",

"Pacific Overtures", "Pericles", "La Ronde", "The Lower Depths", and "The Misanthrope".

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RACHEL MCADAMS (Kay Nesbitt)

One of most sought after new actresses, McAdams has gained a solid reputation as an actor’s

actor.

McAdams was first recognized as the character Regina George 2004’s Mean Girls. She followed

Mean Girls with the film adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ novel The Notebook, alongside Ryan

Gosling.

In 2005, she played Owen Wilson's love interest in Wedding Crashers and then starred in the

suspense thriller Red Eye with Cillian Murphy. Her most recent role was in the comedy The

Family Stone where she starred in an ensemble cast alongside Diane Keaton, Craig T. Nelson,

Sarah Jessica Parker, Dermot Mulroney, Luke Wilson, Brian J. White and Claire Danes.

McAdams was born in London, Ontario. At the age of thirteen she took up acting at a summer

theatre camp. She later graduated from York University with honors and a BFA in Theatre.

McAdams currently lives in Toronto, Canada.

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ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS

IRA SACHS (Writer/Director/Producer)

Married Life is the third feature from the writer and director Ira Sachs. His previous film, the

2005 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner Forty Shades of Blue, was released

theatrically in the U.S by First Look Pictures, and sold internationally by Celluloid Dreams. His

first feature, The Delta, was screened at the Toronto, Sundance and Rotterdam film festivals and

distributed in the U.S. by Strand Releasing. Sachs was the recipient of the Emerging Talent

Award at the 1997 Los Angeles Outfest, and was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship

in 1999. He was also a 2001 Fellow at the MacDowell Artist Colony, and has made several

shorts, including Vaudeville and Lady (Sundance, 1995).

Sachs was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee and has been a resident of New York City

since 1988.

SIDNEY KIMMEL (Producer)

Producer Sidney Kimmel is chairman and CEO of Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, the Los

Angeles and New York-based production, finance and distribution company.

Active in the motion picture industry for more than 20 years, Kimmel is responsible for such

pictures as Blame It On Rio, 9½ Weeks and The Emperor’s Club. His passion as an independent

producer eventually led to the founding of Sidney Kimmel Entertainment in October 2004.

Producing up to ten features per year, the company works with esteemed filmmaking talent to

create quality, commercial films.

Kimmel and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, in association with Universal Pictures, financed

Academy Award nominee Paul Greengrass’ critically acclaimed United 93, as well as executive

producing Billy Ray’s Breach, starring Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe and Laura Linney.

Universal also released Nick Cassavetes’ Alpha Dog, the controversial film starring Emile Hirsch,

Bruce Willis, Sharon Stone and Justin Timberlake, which Kimmel produced and financed.

Kimmel is producing a diverse slate of films including Frank Oz’ Death at a Funeral, starring

Matthew Macfadyen and Peter Dinklage released by MGM, Kasi Lemmons’ Talk to Me, starring

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Don Cheadle and Chiwetel Ejiofor, released by Focus Features, Jon Poll’s Charlie Bartlett,

starring Anton Yelcin, Robert Downey Jr. and Hope Davis to be released by MGM in 2008, Ira

Sachs’ Married Life, starring Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson and Rachel

McAdams; The Kite Runner directed by Marc Forster which is being produced with DreamWorks

Pictures, Participant Productions and Parkes/MacDonald Productions to be released by

Paramount Vantage and Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut Synecdoche, New York starring

Academy-Award winning actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman.

In addition to his success in filmed entertainment, Kimmel founded Jones Apparel Group in 1975,

which has since grown into a $4.5 billion diversified fashion industry empire. Still active as the

chairman of Jones’ board of directors, he has also established the Sidney Kimmel Foundation and

its subsidiary, the Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research, which is one of the nation's

largest individual donors to cancer research. Kimmel is extremely involved in philanthropic

endeavors benefiting his hometown of Philadelphia as well as Jewish education and continuity.

He recently oversaw the opening of the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia,

home of the world-renowned Philadelphia Orchestra. He is also a partner in Cipriani

International, the acclaimed international restaurant and catering establishment, and is a part

owner of The Miami Heat.

STEVE GOLIN (Producer)

Founder and CEO of Anonymous Content, a multimedia development, production and talent

management company in Culver City, California, Steve Golin is an award-winning producer of

over 40 films and TV projects distinguished by an original and often quirky sensibility. A driving

creative force who takes a strong collaborative approach to projects, his latest is Babel, a

suspense-filled contemporary drama starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Gael Garcia Bernal,

which was released by Paramount Pictures and Paramount Vantage in 2006.

Golin also produced the feature directorial debut of screenwriter Jon Kasden, In the Land of

Women, a co-production with Castle Rock and Warner Independent starring Meg Ryan and Adam

Brody. Golin is currently sheperding two films through post-production: Smiley Face directed by

Gregg Araki, which stars Anna Farris, John Krasinski and Adam Brody, and All God’s Children

Can Dance, based on the short story by Haruki Murakami, screenplay by client Scott Coffey,

helmed by Anonymous commercial director Robert Logevall, and starring Sonja Kinski and

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Jason Lew. In addition to Married Life, currently in production is Case 39 starring Renee

Zellweger under director Christain Alvart.

Golin has garnered critical acclaim from such films as Being John Malkovich starring John

Malkovich, John Cusack and Cameron Diaz and Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, starring

Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet under director Michel Gondry.

Prior to Anonymous, Golin co-founded Propaganda Films in 1986 and served as co-chairman

until leaving the company in 1999. During his tenure he produced such films as David Lynch’s

Wild at Heart, a Cannes Palme D’Or winner starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern; Madonna’s

provocative rockumentary Truth or Dare and David Fincher’s The Game starring Michael

Douglas and Sean Penn.

Steve Golin attended New York University, graduated from the American Film Institute with an

MFA in producing, and is currently a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and

Sciences and the Producers Guild of America.

JAWAL NGA (Producer)

Jawal Nga founded Tiny Dancer Films, a New York-based production company dedicated to

independent film and designed to reflect Nga’s desire to follow in the tradition of directors Robert

Altman, Terence Malick and Peter Bogdanvich, with carefully-structured, character-driven

stories.

Nga served as Associate Producer on The Clearing starring Robert Redford and Helen Mirren and

then later went on to producer Ira Sachs’ previous film, Forty Shades of Blue. In 2005, Forty

Shades of Blue won Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

Tiny Dancer is currently developing the script adaptations of Kevin Canty’s novel Into the Great

Wide Open with writer Coleman Hough, and Michael Ignatieff’s Charlie Johnson in the Flames

with writer Justin Haythe, screenwriter for The Clearing.

Nga grew up in Tripoli, Libya and London. He graduated New York University in 1996. Nga

currently resides in New York City.

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Credits

SIDNEY KIMMEL ENTERTAINMENT Present

An

ANONYMOUS CONTENT / FIRM FILMS Production

An IRA SACHS

Film

PIERCE BROSNAN

CHRIS COOPER

PATRICIA CLARKSON

RACHEL MCADAMS

DAVID WENHAM

CASTING BY

AVY KAUFMAN

Music Supervisor SUSAN JACOBS

Music by DICKON HINCHLIFFE

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Costume Designer

MICHAEL DENNISON

Editor AFFONSO GONçALVES

Production Designer HUGO LUCZYC-WYHOWSKI

Director of Photography PETER DEMING, ASC

Executive Producers WILLIAM HORBERG

DAVID NICKSAY

Executive Producers GEOFF STIER

ADAM SHULMAN MATT LITTIN

Executive Producers ALIX MADIGAN-YORKIN

BRUCE TOLL

Produced by

SIDNEY KIMMEL JAWAL NGA

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Produced by

STEVE GOLIN IRA SACHS

Based on the book Five Roundabouts to Heaven

by JOHN BINGHAM

Screenplay by IRA SACHS & OREN MOVERMAN

Directed by IRA SACHS

Unit Production Managers David Nicksay Simon Abbott

First Assistant Director Carl Mason Second Assistant Director Josy Capkun

Harry Allen Chris Cooper Miss Jones Annabel Kershaw

Richard Langley Pierce Brosnan Pat Allen Patricia Clarkson

Kay Nesbitt Rachel McAdams Mrs. Walsh Sheila Paterson

Tom David Richmond-Peck Becky Erin Boyes

Little Charlie Elijah St. Germain Dr. Anderson Terence Kelly Alvin Walters Timothy Webber

Photo Store Clerk Rebecca Codling John O'Brien David Wenham

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Ticket Taker Dolores Drake Well-tailored Man Malcolm Boddington

Operator Carrie Anne Fleming Policemen Sean Tyson

Ty Olsson Charades Players Mike Cook

Kathleen Duborg Dale Floyd Fred Keating Suzanne Ristic Alex Stevens

O'Brien's Girlfriend Anna Williams

Stunt Coordinator Melissa R. Stubbs Stunts David Jacox

Scott Ateah Carolyn Field Ken Kirzinger Gerald Paetz Paul Rutledge Brent Woolsey

Canadian Casting Coreen Mayrs, CSA Heike Brandstatter, CSA Crew

Art Director Gwendolyn Margetson Set Decorator Carol Lavallee

First Assistant "A" Camera Cam North

Second Assistant "A" Camera Laird Pierce "B" Camera Operators Glen Dickson

Andy Wilson First Assistants "B" Camera Reg Gole

Cary Lalonde Second Assistant "B" Camera Leigh Jenkins

Camera Trainees Andre Gheorghiu Nazim Edeer

Video Assist Andrew Pedley

Script Supervisor Christine Wilson

Re-Recording Mixer Roberto Fernandez

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Assistant Art Director Brian Cunningham

Graphic Artist Stanislava Shmakin Art Department Assistant Carmen Lee

Storyboard Artist Rob Pratt Storyboard Artist - New York Hoge Day

Assistant Set Decorator Lee Campbell Set Decoration Buyer Michelle Pitney

Lead Set Dresser John T. Boe Set Dressers Sharon Falck

Denise Hignell David Parke Jan Thorp

On Set Dresser Kevin Griffin-Park

Property Master Bryan Korenberg Assistant Property Master Haida Harper

Property Buyer Alexandra Cram

Assistant Costume Designers Jonny Pray Michelle Hunter

Set Supervisors Gillian Kieft Luisa Dalmagro

Costumers Patti Bishop Kevin Harrison Diane Nosella

Sound Design by Damian Volpe

Sound Mixer Lindsay Bucknell Boom Operator Jason Lecky Sound Assistant Pat Lauwers

Gaffer Andrew Davidson Best Boy Electric Shane Dobie Rigging Gaffer Keith S. Woods

Best Boy Rigging Electric Mark Aviss Generator Operators Roger Bailey

Brian Lymer Lamp Operators Rob Brady

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Owen Williams Trevor Carabin

Board Operator Todd Martin Set Wireman Jonathan Turton

Key Grip Steve Smith

Best Boy Grips Gary J. Williams James Williams

Dolly Grip Brian Bouma Key Rigging Grip Robin Jobin

Rigging Grips Scott Bonner Doug Parton

Grips Pat Waller Robin Say

Key Make Up Artist "Harry" & "Pat" Monica Huppert

Key Make Up Artist "Richard" Jayne Dancose Make Up Artist "Kay" Linda A. Grimes

Assistant Make Up Megan Davies Second Assistant Make Up Kayleen McAdams

Key Hair Stylist Robert Pandini Hair Stylist "Kay" Francesca Paris

Assistant Hair Stylist Dean Scheck Wig Makers Victoria Wood

Martial Corneville Stacey Butterworth

Production Coordinator Linda Sheehy-Brownstein First Assistant Coordinators Carl Gruell

Catherine Howard Second Assistant Coordinator Petina Louise Bradley Office Production Assistant Hanelize de Beer

Assistant to Mr. Sachs Lucas Joaquin

Assistant to Mr. Brosnan Nicola Conlon Cast/Producers' Assistant Kim Sutton

Third Assistant Directors Tanya Tagmann

Sara Irvine Trainee Assistant Director Alleris Gillham

Production Accountant Mandy Butler Assistant Accountant Suzie Bruce

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Payroll Accountant Katie Forss Accounting Clerk Alex Skrepnik

Post Production Accountant Post Accountants, Inc.

Special Effects Coordinator Rob Paller Assistant Special Effects Kurt Jackson

Don Resse

Location Manager Geoff Teoli

Assistant Location Managers Vincent Michael de la

Luna Renee Bella

Key Location Production Assistants Sean Meade

Kohl Jones Location Production Assistant Fareed Abdelhak

Choreographer Viktoria Langton

Construction Coordinator Alan D. Burdett

Construction Foreman Shane O'Reilly Construction Buyer John Sinclair Tool Maintenance Robert Swan Lead Carpenters Rob Allen

W.G. Burdett On Set Carpenter Rowland Dyton

Carpenter/First Aid Richard Elder Lead Laborer/First Aid Jaron Boon

Paint Coordinator Marko T. Lytviak Lead Painters Louis Holz

Natasha Muir Laborer Shelley Collins

Standby Painter Rena Van Steele Head Greens David Emmonds

Greens John Chaschowy On Set Greensman Rohan Lyal

Transportation Coordinator Bob Dennett

Transportation Captain Dave Kennedy Transportation Co-Captain Don Chase Picture Car Coordinators Richard W. McKay

Geoff Williams

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Drivers

Bill Fox Jared Boileau Jason Lapp Don Larone

Dan Ross Haveruk Doug March Mark Johnston Ed Chenier David Byerley Richard Atchison Mike Murphy Tom Groulx Colin Banner Charles Pinkus

Lori Merchant-O'Dwyer Rick McLennan Ken Sissons Harry Hachey

Shawn O'Hearn Don Bell John Hardjono Trent Thomas Preston Davis Bob Thorner Ron Fessler Chris Baldwinson

Wayne Cartwright Ed Scott Allan Voth

Security Coordinator Kim Howes

Stand Ins Jeffrey Kurtis

Ian Neeson Robin Ross Nina van den Boogaard

Post Production Supervisor Sarah Connors

Music Editor Suzana Peric

Assistant Editors Ron Dulin Cheryl Buckman

Sound Effects Editor Glenfield Payne Dialogue Editor Dave Ellinwood

ADR Editor Cate Montana Foley Supervisor Rachel Chancey

Foley Walker Jay Peck Foley Mixer Ryan Collison

Assistant Sound Editor Katherine Miller

Re-Recordist Keith Culbertson

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ADR Mixer David Boulton ADR Recordist Brian Gallagher

Mix Stage Sound One Corp Jim Gardner

Post Production Facility Post Factory NY Jim O'Hagan

Post Production Assistants Jessica Green Alex Gabucci

Assistant Music Editor John Carbonara Recording and Mixdown

Engineer Gary Chester Copyist Evan Barker

ADR Voice Casting Sondra James

Score Mixed at Avatar Studios, New York City

Main Titles Designed and Produced by Prologue

Lead Designer Ilya Abulhanov Senior Producer Unjoo Byars

Creative Supervisor Danny Yount Animator Alex Hanson Illustrators Chris Sanchez

Tony Weinstock Executive Producer Kyle Cooper

Visual Effects Supervisor Gray Marshall

Supervising VFX Producer Margaux Mackay

Gray Matter Visual

Effects

Lead Compositors Colin Liggett Trent Shumway

Matte Painter Robert Scifo Compositor John Cairns

Compositor/Rotoscope Artist Myung Kim VFX Producer Ashley Clark

VFX Coordinator Monika Chvatikova Systems Administrator Eric Jordan

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Casting Associates - U.S.A. Elizabeth Greenberg

Cody Beke Casting Associates - Canada Trica Thompson

Leah Nelson Extras Casting Andrea Brown

Background Wrangler Peter Mulholland

Animal Trainers Ian Doig Grace Macleod

First Aid/Craft Service Ari Ron Catering Geoff the Chef Ltd.

Head Chef Geoff Titcomb Assistant Chefs Michael Riley

Dal Watson

Stills Photographer Joseph Lederer Assistant to Steve Golin Jennifer Malloy

Assistant to Alix Madigan-Yorkin Blake DeRoss

Assistant to Adam Shulman Dan Cohen Executive in Charge of Music for

SKE Bonnie Greenberg SKE Music Executive Christy Gerhart Music Clearances by SuperVision

Production Legal Michael J. Linowes, Esq.

Insurance provided by AON/Ruben-Winkler Publicist Kathryn Perkins

Completion Guaranty provided by

International Film Guarantors

Payroll Service Entertainment Partners

Production Services provided by Marriage Productions Inc., a Canada Film Capitol company

Product Placement/Clearance Peter Cummings

Rights & Clearances by Entertainment Clearances,

Inc. Cassandra Barbour Laura Sevier

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"PANDORA AND THE FLYING DUTCHMAN" footage courtesy THE DOURIS CORPORATION

"MARTIN KANE PRIVATE EYE” footage courtesy of ALPHA HOME ENTERTAINMENT

"STREETS OF LAREDO" poster courtesy of Universal Studios Licensing LLLP

"MY FAVORITE HUSBAND" audio courtesy of CLASSIC IMAGES Additional footage provided by AMERICAN PLAYBACK IMAGES

Color Timer Chris Regan Negative Cutting Kona Cutting

Gary Burritt Dolby Sound Consultant Ken Hunold

Opticals by EFILM Dailies Telecine Rainmaker

Prints by Deluxe Hollywood

I CAN’T GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE Performed by DORIS DAY

Written by Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh Courtesy of Soundies, Inc. by arrangement with DePugh Music

TRULY YOURS Performed by PAUL CANTELON

Written by Paul Cantelon Courtesy of Paul Cantelon

DUET, ACT 2, BARCAROLLE (VOCAL) Performed by OGM CLASSICAL STRINGS

Written by Jacques Offenbach Courtesy of OGM Production Music / Ole Georg Music

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BLACK TRAIN BLUES

Performed by JAY MCSHANN Written by Jay McShann and E.C. Robinson

Courtesy of Tuff City Records by arrangement with Ocean Park Music Group

GOT A RIGHT TO CRY

Performed by JOE LIGGINS AND HIS HONEYDRIPPERS Written by Joe Liggins

Courtesy of Tuff City Records by arrangement with Ocean Park Music Group

TANYA

Performed by JOE LIGGINS AND HIS HONEYDRIPPERS Written by Joe Liggins

Courtesy of Tuff City Records by arrangement with Ocean Park Music Group

GERONIMO

Performed by JAY MCSHANN Written by Jay McShann

Courtesy of Tuff City Records by arrangement with Ocean Park Music Group

THINKING ABOUT MY BABY Performed by JAY MCSHANN

Written by Jay McShann Courtesy of Tuff City Records by arrangement with Ocean Park Music Group

ALL NITE LONG

Performed by JOHNNY OTIS ORCHESTRA Written by Johnny Otis Courtesy of Savoy Jazz

NOBODY KNOWS THE TROUBLE I’VE SEEN

Performed by KAY STARR Courtesy of Soundies, Inc. by arrangement with DePugh Music

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SAY YOU’RE MINE Performed by PAUL CANTELON

Written by Paul Cantelon Courtesy of Paul Cantelon

ANY TIME AT ALL Performed by AL LERNER with DICK HAYMES

Written by Al Lerner Courtesy of pigFactory

YOU TURNED YOUR BACK ON ME Performed by JAY MCSHANN

Written by Jay McShann Courtesy of Tuff City Records by arrangement with Ocean Park Music Group

DUBIOUS CHARACTER Performed by JIM BLAKE

Written by Jim Blake Courtesy of Extreme Music

SPECIAL THANKS TO:

Dependent Cinema

Miguel Arteta Paul Brennan

Bill Clegg Mariela & Roberto Fernandez

Bobye List Yael Hirsch Moverman

Mohamed Nga Jehad Nga

Jonathan Nossiter Lana Perić

Rosângela B. Piñero Greta Seacat

The Sachs Family

The events and characters depicted in this motion picture are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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This motion picture is protected under the laws of the United States and other countries. Unauthorized duplication, distribution or exhibition may result in civil liability and

criminal prosecution.

© 2007 Kimmel Distribution, LLC. All Rights Reserved.