Fresh
Insidiously engaging low-budgeter employs a literate sensibility, breezy tone and warm performances.
Todd McCarthy, Variety
Overview
It sounds like a budding writer's dream: a bestselling first novel, a luxurious house in Malibu, and a trophy wife... But it all unravels when writer's block and a failed marriage send Richard McMurray out into the streets.
Director and cast
- Gary Walkow Director
- David Cross as Space Station Man
- Caleigh White as Space Station Woman
- Campbell Scott as Richard McMurray
- Alex Kingston as Diane Freed
- Izabella Miko as Kristen
- Stephen Gyllenhaal as Writer
- Lizzy Caplan as Jacqueline
- Devin Barry as Brad
- Holly Reiser as Revised Space Station Woman
- Alexandra Safford as Unseen Woman
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