Unless — Trailer

added: Thu, Aug 11th '16

Catherine Keener plays a celebrated novelist who learns her college-age daughter has chosen to live on the streets in the trailer for "Unless," an emotionally tense family drama that's based on the acclaimed final novel by the late, Canadian author Carol Shields.

The film, which will be making its world premiere next month at the Toronto International Film Festival, also stars up-and-coming actress Hannah Gross. She plays Keener's daughter, Norah, who all of the sudden drops out of college to sit silently on a downtown street. For two months, Norah hasn't said a word to anyone, but decidedly holds a cardboard sign that reads, "Goodness." Is this some bizarre form of protest? Or has Norah truly lost her mind?

Directed and adapted for the screen by documentary filmmaker Alan Gilsenan, "Unless" co-stars Matt Craven (Crimson Tide, TV's Resurrection) as Keener's husband. As of yet, the film doesn't have a U.S. release date.

synopsis:
Academy Award nominee Catherine Keener and Hannah Gross (I Used to Be Darker) star in this adaptation of the final novel by the late, great Canadian novelist Carol Shields, about a writer who discovers her runaway daughter panhandling on the street and seemingly deprived of speech.

directed by Alan Gilsenan

starring Catherine Keener, Hannah Gross, Matt Craven

release date Toronto International Film Festival, 2016