Lightning Entertainment has acquired international sales rights to the Toronto International Film Festival World Premiere comedy PREGGOLAND STARRING Oscar nominee James Caan (THE GODFATHER, MISERY, ELF), Sonja Bennett (YPF, ELEGY, WHERE THE TRUTH LIES), Danny Trejo (MACHETE, FROM DUSK TILL DAWN), Paul Campbell (PLAY THE GAME, 88 MINUTES, SEVERED) and Laura Harris (THE FACULTY, SEVERANCE, A MIGHTY WIND). The announcement was made by Lightning Entertainment EVP & General Manager Ken DuBow.
Directed by Jacob Tierney (THE TROTSKY, GOOD NEIGHBOURS) and written by Sonja Bennett, PREGGOLAND is a comedy about our societal obsession with babies and the lengths we’ll go to be part of a club. Â
At 35, Ruth (Bennett) hasn’t changed much since high school. She’s still partying in parking lots, working as a cashier in a supermarket, and living in her father’s basement. When Ruth gets drunk at a friend’s baby shower and ruins it with her juvenile antics, her old high school cronies – who are now all married with children – suggest she might want to find some friends her own mental age. Ruth is devastated.
Just when Ruth hits rock bottom, she runs into her friends who mistakenly think she’s pregnant. Ruth is inexplicably welcomed back into the group – she is one of them now. Not only that but people give up their seat on the bus for her, she gets unlimited breaks at work, and her grandchild-obsessed father (James Caan) approves of her for the first time in her life.
Although Ruth has every intention of coming clean… she soon finds herself addicted to the smack called attention. Her lies begin to balloon until there are twins in her belly.
With the help of Pedro (Danny Trejo), the hapless Mexican janitor at her store, Ruth must tackle ultrasounds, Lamaze classes, and dating with a secret the size of a basketball stuffed under her shirt.
Produced by Kevin Eastwood (FIDO), Dylan Collingwood (COLE) and Robert Mitchell, the film is making its market debut at American Film Market and Mongrel Media will release theatrically in Canada in 2015.
PREGGOLAND adds to Lightning’s international sales slate, which includes horror/thrillers INDIGENOUS, DARK HOUSE, THE PACK and dramatic thriller ASK ME ANYTHING (starring Britt Robertson).
[…] to THE BLACKOUT and GIRLHOUSE Lightning’s international sales slate includes the comedy PREGGOLAND (starring Sonja Bennett and James Caan), drama BRAVETOWN (starring Lucas Till, Josh Duhamel, […]
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