If you’ve been visiting Movie Buzzers regularly, you’ll likely know that I am unabashedly a huge fan of writer/director Ed Burns. Not only has Burns successfully put his own spin on the Woody Allen “light, talkie New York movie,” formula, but since 2004’s Looking For Kitty he’s been a trailblazer with both low-budget filmmaking and, with 2007’s Purple Violets, also a pioneer with VOD distribution.
Burns’ next, The Fitzgerald Family Christmas, will likely take this route after it premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival next month. He revealed the first poster on his Facebook. It’s a relatively simply poster for a movie Burns has kept mum on for the most part, but last December Burns revealed the plot to WENN, explaining:
“It’s about a big Irish Catholic family out on Long Island. Mike McGlone from The Brothers McMullen is in it. It’s seven adult siblings from Long Island and their parents got divorced when they were kids and the father now wants to return to the family’s home for Christmas dinner. Half of the siblings still love him and half of them hate him and want nothing to do with him. The mother hates the father most of all and refuses to have him over for Christmas and the family has to figure out a way to convince the other siblings and their mom to let dad spend Christmas with them.”
If you’re a fan of Burns’ films you’ll know he tends to regularly draw from the same stock of actors. So the cast of The Fitzgerald Family Christmas includes Burns himself, Kerry Bishe, Marsha Dietlein (both of whom starred in Newlyweds and Nice Guy Johnny), Caitlin Fitzgerald (starred in Newlyweds), Heather Burns (starred in The Groomsmen), Anita Gillete (starred in She’s the One), Michael McGlone (starred in The Brothers McMullen and She’s the One), and Connie Britton (starred in Looking for Kitty and The Brothers McMullen). They are joined by Burns newcomers Noah Emmerich (Super 8), Nick Sandow (every cop show, ever) and veteran actor Ed Lauter (The Artist). Also joining is Tom Guiry, and though he hasn’t appeared in any of Burns’ prior films either he was Smalls in The Sandlot so he’s awesome by default.
We’ll likely see a VOD release/limited theatrical release in time for the holidays, so keep an eye out for that!
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