The Magnificent Meyersons : Black Sand Pictures

Introduction

Premiering in New York City August 20 at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan; and Los Angeles August 27 at the Laemmle Town Center 5, Encino. The Magnificent Meyersons is also available virtually on the websites of all locations. Select screenings in theaters will offer closed captioned showings (check theater websites for times).

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The Magnificent Meyersons follows an ordinary but complicated New York City family as they discover on one extraordinary day that although life - and family - can sometimes shock you... it can also lead to miraculous new places.

"Hilarious and sly... an intellectual's Breakfast at Tiffany's with a jaw droppingly provocative twist."

Written and directed by Evan Oppenheimer (A Little Game; Alchemy; Justice; The Auteur Theory), The Magnificent Meyers features a stellar ensemble cast that includes Kate Mulgrew (the upcoming Star Trek: Prodigy; Orange is the New Black; Star Trek: Voyager; Star Trek: Nemesis), Richard Kind (The Goldbergs; Inside Out; Argo; A Serious Man; A Bug's Life), Shoshannah Stern (Supernatural; This Close; Weeds), Neal Huff (Mare of Easttown; Split; Spotlight; Moonrise Kingdom; Big Daddy), Melissa Errico (Billions; A Gifted Man; Life or Something Like It; Frequency), Daniel Eric Gold (Last Night; Definitely, Maybe; Charlie Wilson's War; War of the Worlds), Lauren Ridloff (The Walking Dead; Eternals; Sound of Metal; If You Could Hear My Own Tune) and Barbara Barrie (Hercules; Breaking Away; Barney Miller).

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It's a day in New York City just like any other, as the Meyersons deal with the ordinary concerns and petty annoyances that preoccupy all families. Matriarch Terri (Kate Mulgrew) is an oncologist, whose husband (Richard Kind) abandoned the family years earlier, leaving her to raise overachiever Roland (Ian Kahn); Daphne (Jackie Burns), who struggles with her own marriage; Daniel (Daniel Eric Gold), now a reluctant rabbinical student; and Susie (Shoshannah Stern), an ambitious young real estate agent in a lesbian relationship with Tammy (Lauren Ridloff).

But the Meyersons' lives are suddenly upended by dramatic revelations both personal and universal. Conversations about faith, fate and the meaning of it all that come to a head at a family dinner with an unexpected guest. As memories of their complicated past collide with a new and uncertain future, the Meyersons must navigate lingering heartbreak and shifting alliances as they are forced to reevaluate everything that they thought was true.

Black Sand Pictures Presents The Magnificent Meyersons

• Drama. Not Rated.
• Run Time: Approx. 88 Minutes.
• Written and directed by Evan Oppenheimer.
• Produced by Evan Oppenheimer and Edward Schmidt.
• Co-producers are Nerenda Eid and Carina Rush.
• Director of Photography Derek McKane.
• Casting by Judy Hendersen CSA.
• Editor Evan B. Wood.
• Music by Daniel McCormack.

Argot Pictures

Founded by Jim Browne in 2005, Argot Pictures has distributed dozens of well-received films, including Marshall Curry's Academy Award®-nominated Street Fight; John Pirozzi's Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll; Throw Down Your Heart, a documentary about legendary banjo player Béla Fleck; Stacy Peralta's Crips and Bloods: Made in America; and Leah Warshawski and Todd Soliday's Big Sonia.

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