Diane — Official Trailer

added: Mon, Feb 18th '19

Emmy-winning character actress Mary Kay Place (The Big Chill, Being John Malkovich, HBO's Big Love) gets a chance to shine in the titular lead role as a middle-aged mother struggling with a drug-addicted adult son in the upcoming indie drama "Diane," for which an official trailer has been released.

Winner of Best Narrative Feature, Best Screenplay, and Best Cinematography at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, "Diane" is a rich character study of an aging woman (Mary Kay Place) in a small Midwestern town who, while harboring a secret guilt over an incident from her past, finds herself consumed with looking after loved ones, including her deadbeat drug-addicted adult son (played by Jake Lacy, from "The Office" and "Girls").

Executive produced by Martin Scorsese, the film is the first narrative feature from Scorsese's frequent documentary collaborator Kent Jones (Hitchcock/Truffaut, A Letter to Elia, Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows, My Voyage to Italy), who also wrote the screenplay.

Co-starring Andrea Martin (My Big Fat Greek Wedding), Deirdre O'Connell (The Affair, The Path), and Estelle Parsons (Roseanne, Bonnie and Clyde), "Diane" is hitting theaters and VOD March 29th.

synopsis:
For Diane (Mary Kay Place), everyone else comes first. Generous but with little patience for self-pity, she spends her days checking in on sick friends, volunteering at her local soup kitchen, and trying valiantly to save her troubled, drug-addicted adult son (Jake Lacy) from himself.

But beneath her relentless routine of self-sacrifice, Diane is fighting a desperate internal battle, haunted by a past she can't forget and which threatens to tear her increasingly chaotic world apart. Built around an extraordinary, fearless performance from Mary Kay Place, the narrative debut from Kent Jones is a profound, beautifully human portrait of a woman rifling through the wreckage of her life in search of redemption.

directed by Kent Jones

starring Mary Kay Place, Jake Lacy, Andrea Martin, Estelle Parsons, Deirdre O'Connell, Joyce Van Patten, Phyllis Somerville, Glynnis O'Connor, Paul McIsaac

release date March 29, 2019 (in theaters and on VOD)