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Justina Machado stars in comedy about stressed mother who regresses to college student persona.

Myriad Pictures has added comedy The Throwback starring Justina Machado to its TIFF sales and commences talks this week.

CEO Kirk D’Amico represents worldwide rights to writer-director Mario Garcia’s story about a stressed “supermom” with two energetic kids and a lethargic husband whose lives are upended when she experiences a life-threatening situation at work.

Suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder the woman regresses to her college student, party-going persona but eventually learns the party life will never replace the love for her family.

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Exclusive: Bobby Lee (And Just Like That…) has signed on to star alongside Justina Machado, Will Sasso, Gregg Sulkin and Michelle Randolph in Mario Garcia’s feature directorial debut, The Throwback, which is currently in production in the Tampa Bay area.

The indie comedy follows Kate (Machado) and Matt (Sasso), a married couple in full-blown midlife crisis who are thrown into further turmoil when the former, an underappreciated and stressed ‘supermom,’ suffers a post-traumatic breakdown during the holiday season, causing her to regress to her 19-year-old college party-girl self. Lee will play an ad agency art director and longtime colleague of Sasso’s character Matt, who fancies himself a ladies’ man. Garcia penned the script and is producing via his company Garcia Interactive, alongside Michael A. Alfieri of Miantri Films and Doug Fox. Danielle Del is exec producing alongside Machado and Sterling Macer Jr.

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John Robinson, Jon Abrahams and Lorraine Nicholson will star in the indie thriller “Room 105,” an individual familiar with the project has told TheWrap. Patrick Mulvihill is writing and directing the movie, which is being produced by Doug Fox of Another Film Fund. Plot details were not immediately available, and production is currently under way in Missouri. Also Read: Owen Wilson Comedy Casts ‘Lords of Dogtown’ John Robinson (Exclusive) Robinson, who was discovered by director Gus Van Sant and subsequently cast as the lead in “Elephant,” recently wrapped Peter Bogdanovich’s showbiz comedy “Squirrels to the Nuts” and the psychological thriller “Intruder.