Shortly after the end of his parents’ 35-year marriage, writer-director Noah Pritzker found comfort in the written word. What resulted is now known as Ex-Husbands, a drama-comedy about Griffin Dunne’s Peter Pearce, a New York dentist who’s still reeling from his parents’ divorce six years earlier. Peter must now also come to terms with his dying father (Richard Benjamin) and his own impending divorce from Maria (Rosanna Arquette).
Serving as the Palm Springs International Film Festival’s closing night film on Jan. 13, Pritzker’s second feature follows Peter to Tulum, Mexico, where he reluctantly crashes the bachelor party that his youngest son, Mickey (Miles Heizer), organized for his oldest son, Nick (James Norton). Together, the trio must find a way through their own individual problems as their family begins anew. Pritzker recently spoke with THR about working out his own familial struggles on the page and screen and...
Serving as the Palm Springs International Film Festival’s closing night film on Jan. 13, Pritzker’s second feature follows Peter to Tulum, Mexico, where he reluctantly crashes the bachelor party that his youngest son, Mickey (Miles Heizer), organized for his oldest son, Nick (James Norton). Together, the trio must find a way through their own individual problems as their family begins anew. Pritzker recently spoke with THR about working out his own familial struggles on the page and screen and...
- 1/12/2024
- by Brian Davids
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
You could be forgiven for feeling as though you’ve stepped back in time while watching Noah Pritzker’s middling, middle-class, midlife crisis comedy. There’s a sweet-hearted but dated dad rock quality to this tale that revolves around the men in a single family and their relationship woes that transports you to the mid-90s era of Billy Crystal vehicles.
The plot revolves around the family of Peter Pearce (Griffen Dunne), who, in a prologue-of-sorts, is seen trying to convince his elderly father (Richard Benjamin) not to divorce his mother, while his older son Nick (James Norton) is enjoying a meet-cute moment with his co-worker Thea (Rachel Zeiger-Haag). Fast-forward six years and Peter is the one with no ring on his finger, his father’s intentions to “play the field” for 25 years have crashed against the reality of dementia and Nick is about to tie the knot with Thea.
The plot revolves around the family of Peter Pearce (Griffen Dunne), who, in a prologue-of-sorts, is seen trying to convince his elderly father (Richard Benjamin) not to divorce his mother, while his older son Nick (James Norton) is enjoying a meet-cute moment with his co-worker Thea (Rachel Zeiger-Haag). Fast-forward six years and Peter is the one with no ring on his finger, his father’s intentions to “play the field” for 25 years have crashed against the reality of dementia and Nick is about to tie the knot with Thea.
- 10/12/2023
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
After a world premiere at the San Sebastian International Film Festival and its North American premiere over the weekend at the Hamptons International Film Festival, Noah Pritzker’s (Quitters) second film goes for a mix of Woody Allen, John Cassavetes, Paul Mazursky, Noah Baumbach and other white male filmmakers, past and present, who enjoy basking in the midlife marital crisis in which many guys find themselves trapped. While not on the level of those acclaimed filmmakers, in this case, Pritzker manages to cast his net wider into an early-, mid-, and late-life crisis over three generations of the men in the Pearce clan.
The result is an engaging indie exercise that’s for sale to any distributor who finds promise in a premise that might be a tough sell for mainstream buyers despite a game cast that lifts it up a notch or two. Art houses would seem to be its theatrical future,...
The result is an engaging indie exercise that’s for sale to any distributor who finds promise in a premise that might be a tough sell for mainstream buyers despite a game cast that lifts it up a notch or two. Art houses would seem to be its theatrical future,...
- 10/9/2023
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
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