If Sofia Coppola‘s Somewhere didn’t fill your estranged daughter and burn-out artist father fix last year, then you are in luck. Written and directed by David M. Rosenthal, the drama Janie Jones premiered at TIFF last year but is now finally getting a release next month and we have the first trailer. Based on a true story, it seems like your standard, by-the-numbers version of this story. Abigail Breslin seems like the highlight in a cast that also includes Alessandro Nivola, Elisabeth Shue and Peter Stormare. Check it out below.
Synopsis:
Rocker Ethan Brand (Alessandro Nivola) and his band, the Ethan Brand Experience, are on the comeback trail when a former flame (Elisabeth Shue) drops a bomb in his lap—their 13-year-old daughter, Janie Jones (Abigail Breslin). Ethan refuses to believe Janie is his kid, but when her mom suddenly leaves for rehab, the child has no place to go but with the band. With no inclination toward fatherhood, Ethan continues his hard-living ways, leaving Janie to fend for herself in the dive bars and sleazy motels along the way. As his drug- and booze-fueled antics take their toll on and off stage, the band deserts him one by one, until he and Janie are left alone. Desperate to finish the tour and revive his career, Ethan stays on the road as a solo act with Janie in tow. As Ethan’s self-destructive spiral threatens to derail his comeback, Janie uses her own surprising musical talents to help guide him down the rocky road to redemption.
Janie Jones hits theaters on VOD on October 28, 2011.