IFC Films has acquired Robin Swicord’s feature film “Wakefield,” starring Bryan Cranston and Jennifer Garner, with Jason O’Mara and Beverly D’Angelo, for a theatrical release. Produced by Julie Lynn, Bonnie Curtis, Wendy Federman, Elliot Webb, and Carl Moellenberg, the film was well received at both the Telluride Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival last fall. IFC Films will release the film theatrically, beginning May 19th in New York. The VOD date is set for May 26th.
In Robin Swicord’s adaptation of E.L. Doctorow’s short story, successful suburbanite commuter Howard Wakefield (Bryan Cranston) takes a perverse detour from family life: He vanishes without a trace. Hidden in the attic of his carriage house garage, surviving by scavenging at night, Howard secretly observes the lives of his wife (Jennifer Garner) and children and neighbors. “Wakefield” becomes a fraught meditation on marriage and identity, as Howard slowly realizes that he has not in fact left his family, he has left himself.
