EXCLUSIVE: Karen Gillan (Thor: Love and Thunder) will star opposite Margaret Sophie Stein (Bullets Over Broadway), Jermaine Fowler (Sorry to Bother You), Kevin Nealon (SNL) and Talia Balsam (Divorce) in the Lisa Steen-directed comedy Late Bloomers from We’re Doin’ Great and Park Pictures, which has wrapped production in Brooklyn, NY.The film written by Anna Greenfield is loosely based on her experience living in Brooklyn in her 20s.
It centers on Louise (Gillan), an aimless millennial who drunkenly breaks her hip, landing her in physical therapy. There, she makes an elderly Polish BFF (Stein)who speaks no English.
And it’s this unlikely friendship that gives her the courage to face what she’s been running from all along: Her mother’s early-onset Alzheimer’s.
Fowler plays Louise’s Craigslist roommate/landlord Brick, with Nealon and Balsam as her parents.Late Bloomers marks the feature directorial debut of Greenfield’s frequent collaborator, Steen.
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