Tagline: A newlywed couple's honeymoon is upended by the arrivals of their respective sisters.
Synopsis: When you get married, you're not just getting a husband or wife—you get the family, the friends, even the exes. Buzzy and Katy are newlyweds. Katy's meddlesome sister Marcia has been married to Buzzy's friend Max for 18 years. As Marcia and Max's marriage is crumbling under the weight of life together as empty-nesters, Buzzy and Katy's honeymoon period is upended when Buzzy's wild-child baby sister shows up at the couple's TriBeCa apartment with more than a little baggage. With crackling humor and sharp insights into modern relationships, writer/director/actor Edward Burns tracks the tangled threads of these New Yorkers over three days. Aiming to root out the reality and bypassing the Hollywood sentimentality of love and marriage, he takes a documentary approach that is no less visually striking for its on-the-fly style. Shot entirely in TriBeCa, it's a quintessential New York film from a quintessential New York director. Burns has a singular way of getting past the veil of anonymity that comes with living in this city to really strike the core of his characters, played with candor and confidence by a top-notch ensemble that includes himself, Caitlin FitzGerald, Max Baker, Marsha Dietlein Bennett, and Kerry Bishé. [Synopsis courtesy of the Tribeca Film Festival]
U.S. and Canadian rights to actor/writer/director Edward Burns' "comedic relationship drama" "Newlyweds" have been picked up by Tribeca Film. The feature, which closed out the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival where it had its world premiere, will be released via multiple platforms in late 2011.
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Read More »Last year saw indie stalwart Edward Burns work with his lowest budget since "The Brothers McMullen" and try his luck at a radical distribution model for the romantic comedy "Nice Guy Johnny." This year, with his Tribeca Film Festival closing night film "Newlyweds," Burns goes guerilla and asks for s...
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