Catch Mark Pellington’s latest feature.
Just a heads up, cinephiles. The latest feature from friend-of-the-site and officially-licensed* Trailers From Hell guru Mark Pellington is in theaters and on-demand now.
Here’s a trailer:
And here’s the official synopsis. Follow along after to find out where you can see it:
Richard (Thomas Jane), Ron (Jeremy Piven), Jonathan (Rob Lowe) and Tim (Christian McKay) are old college buddies who gather for a week each year in Big Sur to celebrate Tim’s birthday and catch up with each other’s lives. On the surface, they look like typical men in their forties, with careers, families and responsibilities. But as with most people, there is more to them than meets the eye.
As the week progresses, they go down the rabbit hole of excess: mountains of drugs are consumed to a blaring rock ‘n’ roll soundtrack, parties with much younger women spin out of control. Exhausted and run ragged, they bare their souls and their reunion takes a much darker turn. When a promise from their past is brought to light, none of their lives will ever be the same. From director Mark Pellington, I MELT WITH YOU is a visually dazzling, wild and woolly trip deep into the male psyche, driven by four amazingly committed and profound performances from Thomas Jane, Jeremy Piven, Rob Lowe and Christian McKay.
Now, if you’re in a “cool” city like New York or Los Angeles, you can catch the film on the big screen. In New York, the film screens at the Quad Cinema 4 in the West Village (screening times here). And, if you’re in LA, the film plays at one of our too-few-and-far-between single-screen theaters, The Nuart, over on the west side (showtimes here).
The film’s also currently available on-demand, so if you’re not in one of these places, you can still get to it. The film’s got a great cast and Mark’s got a more-than-solid track record as a director (even if ignore you the fact that he directed one of the most iconic music videos of the music video era), so you can bet I’ll be catching this sooner rather than later.
More information is available at the film’s official site.
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