Festivals - Sundance Film Festival 2021 : Together together will have its world premiere

By Mulder, 06 january 2021

When 26-year-old Anna becomes a gestational surrogate to a single, middle-aged app designer named Matt, she expects only a transactional bit of good karma and the payday that will allow her to finish her college degree. But as Matt’s unbridled enthusiasm for impending parenthood leads him to persistently insert himself into her life and invite her into his, the initially annoyed Anna finds herself reluctantly charmed. The pair of self-described loners gradually open up to each other, give in to the intimacy of their admittedly finite shared experience, and forge an unlikely friendship.

Writer-director Nikole Beckwith (Stockholm, Pennsylvania, 2015 Sundance Film Festival) returns with a film that eschews rom-com conventions and subverts expectations of traditional gender dynamics—instead paying tribute to the deeply felt and regenerative power of platonic love. Featuring the boldly mismatched casting of comedy icon Ed Helms and sharp-tongued newcomer Patti Harrison, Together Together depicts the surrogacy process with melancholy and warmth, embedding a distinctively awkward humor within its palpable tenderness for these not-at-all hopeless loners.

Synopsis :
A 40-year-old man hires a young woman and their relationship challenges their perceptions of love.

Together together (USA)
Written and directed by Nikole Beckwith
Produced by Anthony Brandonisio, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Tim Headington
Executive Producers : Lia Buman, Anita Gou, Rebecca Cammarata, Toby Louie, Kevin Mann, Chris Boyd, Nikole Beckwith, Daniel Crown, Bill Benenson
Starring Ed Helms, Patti Harrison, Tig Notaro, Julio Torres, Anna Konkle
Music by Alex Somers
Production Designer : Ashley Fenton
Costume Designer : Elizabeth Warn
Cinematography : Frank Barrera
Edited by Annette Davey
Distributed by Bleecker Street (https://bleeckerstreetmedia.com)
Release date :
Running time : 90 minutes

Premiere : jan. 31 - 8:30pm // Second screening : feb. 2 - 4:00pm (local time)

(Source : press release)