James Benatti Jamie as Jamie. Barbara Troy Jo as Jo. Carey Westbrook Charley as Charley. Ben Shenkman Dr. Feinberg as Dr. Eileen Rosen Mimi as Mimi. Enid Graham Professor as Professor. Ashley Gurnari Checker as Checker. Jack Parshutich Billy as Billy.
Samii Ryan Amanda as Amanda. Mark Benginia Concierge as Concierge. Derek Cianfrance. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Dean Pereira and Cindy Heller Pereira are a young, working class married couple - Dean currently working as a painter, and Cindy working as a nurse in a medical clinic - with a young daughter named Frankie.
Despite their relatively tender ages, they are both ravaged by the life they've eked out together and by the experiences they've had leading into their marriage. Dean, a high school drop out, comes from a broken home, where he never really had a mother figure. He never saw himself getting married or having a family despite falling in love at first sight with Cindy.
He doesn't have any professional ambition beyond his current work - which he enjoys since he feels he can knock off a beer at 8 o'clock in the morning without it affecting his work - although Cindy believes he has so much more potential in life. Cindy also comes from a dysfunctional family, with her own mother and father not setting an example of a harmonious married or family life.
One of her previous serious relationships was with Bobby Ontario, that relationship which has a profound affect on many aspects of her marriage to Dean. Dean and Cindy head off on an overnight getaway together without Frankie, the getaway which may provide a clearer picture if their marriage can survive its many issues. Rated R on appeal for strong graphic sexual content, language, and a beating. Did you know Edit. Trivia When filming the argument scenes, director Derek Cianfrance gave instructions to Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling individually, without the knowledge of the other, in order to create more tension between Dean and Cindy.
The best thing about shooting is the excitement, and the worst thing about shooting is the excitement. There have been moments that I thought were brilliant and then I looked at them on the editing screen and thought they were just garbage. And something I dismissed turns out to be better than I thought it was. What led you to choose Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams? Was there anything about them as people, not just their brilliance as actors, that lead you to the choice? When I met Michelle for the first time she was so connected to the script and she came bearing gifts, like a CD and a book of poetry.
We started a dialogue and it was effortless. That dialogue lasted and [became] a relationship. We wanted to make this movie together for years; it just stood the test of time and never got stale. Michelle is one of the strongest people that I have ever met in my life. She has such an inner strength. We talked about it all the time. Financing kept falling through but finally, the opportunity came to make it. I promised my daughter that I would keep her home this year, tuck her into bed every night and drive her to school every morning.
And then I thought to myself about the reason that she would make a choice like that, such a selfless choice, a choice for someone other than herself. She had so much love inside of her and [sense of] commitment.
That choice made me realize that she was the only person who could ever play Cindy. So I took a compass and I figured out how far a distance of an hour from her house was. I drew a diameter and picked a location right on the edge of an hour from where she lived, and we shot the film there. We talked a lot about Michael Jordan when we made the movie.
Ryan has this theory that the reason Michael Jordan was so great was because he had the will of the world watching him. Everyone wanted him to succeed, and I feel like Ryan is the same kind of person as Michael Jordan.
Everybody knows that Ryan is capable of such amazing things and people want to see him do it. He is also one of the fastest thinkers. His instincts are so sharp. He is ahead of things when they happen. I think that must be part of his craft as an actor.
My two great editors, Jim Helton and Rob Patane, and myself working together for a year. In , the film Deep Impact. When the giant wave destroys the Brooklyn Bridge, you can see at the bottom of the frame the Manhattan Bridge.
A flashback reveals they were hit by missiles to stop the exodus from a quarantined Manhattan. The bridge is seen in the background of the movie Cloverfield as the monster attacks and destroys the Brooklyn Bridge. All images that appear on the site are copyrighted to their respective owners and otsoNY. She yearns toward it.
They first meet at her grandmother's retirement home. Have you ever had one of those chance meetings with a stranger in a place neither one of you belongs? A space empty of your lives, so that you start new with your first conversation and plunge straight ahead into a suddenly new future?
That's what it's like that day. Soon they're playing at this new toy, their love. They do things together as if they were children doing them. Then they get married and have the unplanned but welcomed Frankie, and the realities of making a living and work schedules and child-raising and real marriage settle in.
Dean seems stuck. He seems to stay fixed at the initial stage. Can you see the difference between 1 "He loves me as much as he always did," and 2 "He loves me exactly like he always did"? From Dean's point of view, maybe nothing did. He wanted to be married to Cindy, and he still does and he still is. Cindy can't stand that.
He never signed off on the grow old along with me part. He doesn't think the best is yet to be. He thinks it's just fine now.
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