Official Trailer for Hamish Linklater & Lily Rabe’s ‘Downtown Owl’ Film
by Alex Billington
March 26, 2024
Source: YouTube
“You just moved to another town and pretend to be somebody you’re not?” Sony Pictures Ent. has revealed an official trailer for a indie film titled Downtown Owl, set for a direct-to-VOD / digital release later this April. This originally premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival last year and marks the directorial debut of the two actors Hamish Linklater & Lily Rabe. “Getting away from home to try and find it.” Based on the novel of the same name by Chuck Klosterman, Downtown Owl is a sparkle dark Reagan Era comedy set in the fictional town of Owl, North Dakota in the leading days up to the region’s most intense whiteout blizzard in a century in Minnesota. Lily Rabe stars as Julia, who escapes to this Reagan-era town of Owl for a temporary high school teaching job. Ed Harris, Vanessa Hudgens, Henry Golding, August Blanco Rosenstein, Jack Dylan Grazer, Arianna Jaffier, and Finn Wittrock also appear in this Great Plains dark dramedy. Looks like it has some sweet Americana moments in it, along with tons of fun performances.
Here’s the official trailer (+ poster) for Hamish Linklater & Lily Rabe’s Downtown Owl, from YouTube:
Searching for a break from her cosmopolitan life in Milwaukee, Julia Rabia (Lily Rabe), arrives in the close knit Reagan-era town of Owl, North Dakota for a one-semester high school teaching job. But when the small town turns out to be a wonderland of second-string poets, smoldering Marlboro Men, and a social hierarchy that echoes high school, Julia doesn’t know if she’s come to town to get away from home or to find it. Downtown Owl is co-directed by actors turned filmmakers Hamish Linklater & Lily Rabe, both making their feature directorial debut with this project. The screenplay is written by Hamish Linklater. Produced by Bettina Barrow, Lily Rabe, Hamish Linklater, and Rebecca Green. This initially premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival last year. Sony Pictures Entertainment releases Linklater & Rabe’s first film together, Downtown Owl direct-to-VOD starting April 23rd, 2024 this spring. Anyone interested in htis?
 |