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SHIRLEY

By Josephine DECKER

CORNERSTONE FILMS LIMITED - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 2019

Festivals
& Awards

Sundance Film Festival 2020

U.S. Dramatic Competition

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2020

Encounters

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 107 mn
- Director(s)
- Josephine DECKER
- Writer(s)
- Sarah GUBBINS
- Cast
- Elisabeth MOSS, Michael STUHLBARG, Odessa YOUNG, Logan LERMAN
- Producer(s)
- Jeffrey SOROS, Simon HORSMAN, Christine VACHON, Sue NAEGLE, Sarah GUBBINS, David HINOJOSA
- Synopsis
- Fred and Rose move to a small Vermont college town in pursuit of a job for Fred as an assistant professor of literature. The young couple receives an offer for free room and board from professor Stanley Hyman, as long as Rose agrees to spend time cleaning up the home and looking after his wife, acclaimed horror author Shirley Jackson. At first Fred and Rose detest the rocky household of the eccentric couple, but they eventually establish deep bonds with their counterparts, which will test the limits of their young love.
  
  Director Josephine Decker makes an exciting return with a biographical portrait brought alive with energy and imagination, based on a novel by Susan Merrill and screenplay by Sarah Gubbins. Shirley is a fresh take on the period drama, full of contemporary intrigue and dynamic in style. It features a stellar lead cast—Elisabeth Moss, Michael Stuhlbarg, Odessa Young, and Logan Lerman—who all return to the Festival to give another memorable performance.