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EXCLUSIVE: Indie filmmaker Kevin Cate has wrapped on the Georgia manufacturing of his debut characteristic, the vacation highway journey comedy Insufferable Christmas. Principal solid for the movie contains Julia Stiles (Chosen Household), Alex Moffat (SNL), Caroline Rhea (Sabrina the Teenage Witch), David Cross (Arrested Growth), Stephen Root (Barry), Mena Suvari (American Magnificence), Kennedy Moyer, and Ben Lewis Doherty (Job).
Written by Cate and Blake Sennett, who additionally options within the ensemble, the movie follows the Tipton household on a chaotic cross-country journey full of misadventure, emotional blowups, and sudden vacation magic — the type that solely occurs when every thing goes fully off the rails.
The intention, Cate advised us, was to make “a timeless, hilarious, watch it yearly to seek out one thing new Christmas film…Assume Christmas Trip meets Little Miss Sunshine.”
Cate produced for Clinging Vine Movies, alongside Sennett, with Gayle Pillsbury dealing with casting. Al Roker, Valyn Corridor, and Sean Anthony Baker spherical out the solid.
Of Insufferable Christmas, Cate went on to say, “As an independently produced movie, we have been in a position to give our unimaginable ensemble solid the liberty to push each scene so far as humanly doable and so they actually did. So what you’ll see on display is a bodily, emotional, and at instances absurd model of Christmas comedy that actually doesn’t get green-lit anymore, however ought to.”
Stiles is repped by Gersh, Untitled Leisure, and Sloane, Provide, Weber & Dern; Moffat by Gersh, Mosaic, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Rhea by CESD and Gersh; Cross by UTA, Brillstein Leisure Companions, and Sloane, Provide; Root by Gersh and Brillstein; Suvari by Progressive Artists, Administration Manufacturing Leisure, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Moyer by Gersh; Doherty by Stewart Expertise and Untitled Leisure; Roker by Envisionary Administration; Corridor by Alexander White Company, Savage Company, and Genuine Expertise and Literary Administration; and Baker by Kathleen Schultz Associates Expertise Company and Kreativ Media Companions.
