Elliot Page to Star in Family Reunion Drama ‘Close To You’
thewrap.comElliot Page (Oscar-nominee for “Juno” and star of Netflix’s “The Umbrella Academy”) and Hillary Baack (“Sound of Metal) will star in “Close to You.” The new film from the BAFTA-winning writer/director Dominic Savage (“The Escape” and “I am Ruth”) will be co-financed by Kindred Spirit, with Anita Gou and Sam Intili executive producing alongside Rolling Dice’s Nai Vazirani.Executive producers include Matt Jordan Smith of Page’s PageBoy Productions.
Producers are Krishnendu Majumdar and Richard Yee who developed the project under their Me + You Productions banner in the UK and Daniel Bekerman and Chris Yurkovich of Good Question Media in Canada.
Savage and Page are also producing after conceiving and co-authoring the story together.Principal photography was recently completed in Canada.
The picture stars Page as Sam, who has a fluke encounter with an old friend (Baack) on his way home to a family reunion which will force him to confront long-buried memories.
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