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Production Notes [PDF]
Link:
Official Website
Press Coverage:
Mar. 14, 2007
Mar. 8, 2007
Promotional Material:
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93.7 KLBJ's Dale Dudley from "Dudley & Bob" show with "Love and Mary"
writer-director Elizabeth Harrison after interview about romantic
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Elizabeth joins 93.7 KLBJ's Bob Fonseca and Charlie Hodge
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For Immediate Release
March 1, 2007
LOVE AND MARY
narrative feature
World Premiere at South by Southwest Film Festival 2007
10 p.m. Sunday, March 11
Dobie Theater, 2021 Guadalupe St., Austin, 512.472.3456
Additional screening:
4:30 p.m. Thursday, March 15, Dobie Theater
WORLD PREMIERE OF TEXAS-MADE
ROMANTIC COMEDY ‘LOVE AND MARY’
SET FOR SXSW FILM FESTIVAL
Writer-Director Born in Lone Star State
Returned to Shoot Her Movie in Texas
AUSTIN, Texas — The world premiere of LOVE AND MARY, a romantic comedy about family eccentricities that is set in Houston, is scheduled for March 11 during South by Southwest Film Festival 2007.
Houston-born writer-director Elizabeth Harrison will screen her narrative feature at 10 p.m. Sunday, March 11, at the Dobie Theater, 2021 Guadalupe St. in Austin. Theater information: 512.472.3456. A Q&A session will follow with Harrison and LOVE AND MARY stars Lauren German and Gabriel Mann.
In LOVE AND MARY, untimely circumstances force pastry chef and new bakery owner Mary Wilson (Lauren German) to return to the embarrassingly unconventional Texas family she has succeeded in moving away from to redeem a gift — and do something she's been dreading: introduce her brilliant and handsome fiancé, Brent (Gabriel Mann), to the family. However, when she must take Brent’s derelict twin brother, Jake (also Mann), instead, Mary learns to see her family in a different light.
Lauren German will next be seen as the lead in Eli Roth’s “Hostel II,” due in theaters in June. Other credits include co-starring in the remake of the film “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “You Are Here,” “What We Do is Secret” and “Standing Still,” all to be released later this year. Gabriel Mann has many well-received performances in theater, television and feature films under his belt, including, “The Bourne Supremacy,” “The Bourne Identity” and “The Life of David Gale.”
Harrison, now based in L.A., says she thought Houston would fit perfectly for her film. “I wanted to make a movie in Texas about interesting people that weren’t your stereotypical cliché Southerners,” she says. “The city was very receptive to the project and it was a positive experience for cast and crew.”
Inspired by “Annie Hall” and “The Goodbye Girl,” Harrison threw in some wacky secondary characters to ratchet up the insanity of Mary’s family: a pet-psychiatrist mother, a pill-popping father who sports a rat tail, an uncle who invents weird suits to help protect his irritated skin and a younger brother who’s a disgruntled rock musician playing in a ’70s disco cover band.
Shot last March, the film was produced by Harrison’s Ranch House Productions, Peter James Cooper and Jonathan Downs.
For more information on LOVE AND MARY, visit www.loveandmary.com.
Contact:
McGuckin Entertainment PR
Jill McGuckin, 512.217.9404; jill@mcguckinpr.com
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