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Director Statement
The spark that started it came from two women at a Christmas party. They were smart, funny, attractive, over 40. Neither of them was in a relationship and my mind clicked on the notion that the older you get, the harder it becomes to find a partner. I started mentally cruising through the list of reasons people are single. Soon there were two characters filling my head with quirks and outrage and borrowed memories and before long I had the first draft of a screenplay and the perfect location to shoot it. After four full cast readings and rewrites, I gave it the green light. Although the women live in small town New England, their struggles could be anywhere, for as Louise eulogizes, “Here lies Russell, probably the last straight, relatively sane, single man in our town...maybe the state.”

The film references Thelma & Louise and Goodwill Hunting as cultural markers with a wink to Hitchcock’s Frenzy and Bergman's Personna. Tonally, it builds on the work of the Coen brothers and further back, the plays of Joe Orton (Loot, What The Butler Saw) and even further back, the Ealing Studios comedies which were serious, outragous and brilliantly shot. I was drawn to dark comedy because it can illuminate aspects of the soul usually left in shadow in lighter treatments. My favorite audience card so far, was written by a woman in Cincinnati, “I couldn’t stop laughing or thinking.”