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Title: If I Were You Director: Joan Carr-Wiggin Starring: Marcia Gay Harden, Leanor Watling, Aidan Quinn, Joseph Kell, Michael Therriault, Gary Piquer, Bethany Jillard, Elizabeth Whitmere, Claire Brosseau An odd little duck of a film, writer-director Joan Carr-Wiggin’s “If I Were You” kicks around enjoyably for quite a while in the same sandbox as some of Woody Allen’s mid-career farces, before eventually pivoting and skipping off into less rewarding territory. The story of a woman who accidentally learns of her husband’s infidelity and then enters into a strange friendship and pact with his unwitting mistress, this bouncy but meandering comedy would benefit from an editorial haircut that trims down some of its less inspired subplots. It’s [ Read More ]

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Toronto -- DDA Consulting's Dennis Davidson has signed on to represent the Marcia Gay Harden-starrer "If I Were You," which just wrapped production in Toronto after a five-week shoot (Hr, 01/19).

Davidson is lining up a sales agent to start shopping the Paragragh Pictures' dramedy in Cannes.

"If I Were You," written and directed by Joan Carr-Wiggin, also stars Leonor Watling and Aidan Quinn in a film about two women who become unlikely friends to fix their troubled lives.

The comedy drama from producers David Gordian and Alan Latham also stars Joseph Kell, Michael Therriault, Elizabeth Whitmere, Claire Brosseau and Bethany Jillard.

Dennis Davidson recently shrunk his roster to focus on Dda Consulting after a recent management buyout of Dda Public Relations, the global PR giant he founded with offices in London and Los Angeles (Hr, 10/19/09).

Toronto -- Marcia Gay Harden, Leonor Watling and Aidan Quinn are to play the leads in Joan Carr-Wiggin's "If I Were You" from Paragraph Pictures and FDC Distribution.

The comedy drama from producers David Gordian and Alan Latham, shooting in Toronto, also stars Joseph Kell, Michael Therriault, Elizabeth Whitmere, Claire Brosseau and Bethany Jillard.

Gay Harden and Spanish actress Watling perform the roles of two women who become unlikely friends to fix their troubled lives.

Carr-Wiggin recently completed "A Previous Engagement," a comedy starring Juliet Stevenson that she also wrote and directed.

Vio Bianchini, Savitri Gordian and Mark Paladini share executive producer credits on the five-week Canadian shoot.

A dazzling debut by UK dramatist, Polly Stenham that recently took London’s

West End by storm, That Face is an explosive portrayal of an affluent family in freefall written in 2007 when Ms. Stenham was 19 years old.

The youngest playwright to ever be produced by The Royal Court Theatre, Ms. Stenham

leads the pack of new contemporary voices in British drama today.This world premiere stars Sonja Smits as Martha, best known for her multi-award-winning characters on “The Eleventh Hour”, “Traders” and “Street Legal”.

Nightwood Artistic Director and That Face director Kelly Thornton remarks, “I am thrilled to be tackling this complex and muscular drama. Stenham’s voice is raw and uncensored and for such a young writer her acute dissection of emotional neglect is arresting.”

Ms. Stenham delves into family dysfunction like a seasoned analyst with decades of experience. Her searing portrait of an upper class family exposes an...