A movie that won't win any awards from the Mexican-American Border Tourism board, Inhale takes the idea of organ-transplant tourism and drops it squarely in the middle of a dramatic thriller. It's not a comfortable fit. Directed by Baltasar Kormakur from a script by Walter Doty and John Claflin, the film plops a privileged American attorney, Paul Stanton (Dermot Mulroney), onto the drug cartel mean streets of Juarez. He's carrying big stashes of cash, trying to buy a pair of lungs for his dying daughter. Can you spell trouble down Mexico way? Kormakur initially bounces back and forth in time, following Stanton as he runs in circles in Juarez, from one bad neighborhood to another, in search of a mysterious Dr. Navarro, who supposedly has a pipeline to transplantable organs and a way to move newcomers to the top of the transplant...
- 10/20/2010
- by Marshall Fine
- Huffington Post
The trailer and images are now available from IFC's Inhale drama which opens on October 22nd in La and New York. Baltasar Kormakur (Brúðguminn, Jar City) directs from the writing by John Claflin and Walter A. Doty III from the story by Christian Escario. Michelle Chydzik Sowa, Jennifer Kelly and Nathalie Marciano produce. The strong cast includes Dermot Mulroney, Diane Kruger, Jordi Molla, Vincent Perez, Rosanna Arquette and Sam Shepard. Every day, rising Santa Fe District Attorney Paul Stanton and his wife, Diane, wait for word that there’s a donor for their daughter, Chloe. Diagnosed with a rare degenerative condition, Chloe is on a long list to receive a double lung transplant. As her health worsens, Paul becomes desperate to save his young child…so desperate that he’ll risk everything to organize an operation. When Paul learns of a Dr. Novarro who performs transplants in Juarez, Mexico, he...
- 10/15/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The country of Mexico is really getting a bad rap in film these days. After having paired with the Icelandic director on Jar City, IFC Films have bought the rights to Baltasar Kormakur's latest thriller, Inhale. Such as 2005's A Little Trip to Heaven, Kormakur worked with English-speaking actors in Dermot Mulroney, Diane Kruger and a supporting cast that includes Sam Shepard, Rosanna Arquette, Vincent Perez and Jordi Molla. Scripted by Christian Escario with a John Claflin rewrite, formerly titled Run for Her Life, Mulroney plays a district attorney whose daughter contracts a rare illness and needs new lungs. After discovering she's low on the official U.S. waiting list, he heads to Mexico to buy his way onto their list. But his ethical nature is put to the test when he has to choose between saving hundreds of children being killed for their organs or saving his daughter's life.
- 9/2/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
North American rights to Baltasar Kormákur’s latest thriller "Inhale," starring Dermot Mulroney, Diane Kruger, Sam Shepard, Vincent Perez, and Rosanna Arquette, have been bought up by IFC Films. Written by Walter Doty and John Claflin, the film will have its U.S. premiere at the Woodstock Film Festival on October 1st, before being available nationwide via IFC's VOD network. The film will hit theaters in NYC October 22nd. In the film, Mulroney ...
- 9/2/2010
- Indiewire
By Gregg Kilday
IFC Films has acquired U.S. rights to Baltasar Kormakur's thriller "Inhale," starring Dermot Mulroney, Diane Kruger and Sam Shepard.
The movie concerns a man's desperate search to get a lung transplant for his daughter. It was written by Walter Doty and John Claflin, with the story by Christian Escario, and was produced by Nathalie Marciano, Jennifer Kelly, and Michelle Chydzik Sowa.
26 Films produced in association with Kormákur's company, Blueeyes Productions.
It will open theatrically at New York City's IFC Center on Oct. 22 and will also be offered on IFC’s movies-on-demand VOD platform.
The deal was negotiated by IFC’'s Arianna Bocco and Wme Independent on behalf of the filmmakers.
IFC Films has acquired U.S. rights to Baltasar Kormakur's thriller "Inhale," starring Dermot Mulroney, Diane Kruger and Sam Shepard.
The movie concerns a man's desperate search to get a lung transplant for his daughter. It was written by Walter Doty and John Claflin, with the story by Christian Escario, and was produced by Nathalie Marciano, Jennifer Kelly, and Michelle Chydzik Sowa.
26 Films produced in association with Kormákur's company, Blueeyes Productions.
It will open theatrically at New York City's IFC Center on Oct. 22 and will also be offered on IFC’s movies-on-demand VOD platform.
The deal was negotiated by IFC’'s Arianna Bocco and Wme Independent on behalf of the filmmakers.
- 9/2/2010
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
ShockTillYouDrop.com has learned the Dermot Mulroney-starring thriller Run for Her Life is now entitled Inhale . The actor plays a district attorney whose daughter contracts a rare illness and needs new lungs. After discovering she's low on the official U.S. waiting list, he heads to Mexico to buy his way onto their list. But his ethical nature is put to the test when he has to choose between saving hundreds of children being killed for their organs or saving his daughter's life. Sam Shepard, Rosanna Arquette, Jordi Molla and Vincent Perez join Mulroney in this flick steeped in the world of the organ harvesting black market. Behind the camera is helmer Baltasar Kormakur ( Jar City ) and writers John Claflin ( Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid ) and Christian Escario.
- 11/24/2008
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Dermot Mulroney will star in the organ-harvesting thriller Run for Her Life for producer-financier 26 Films.
Mulroney will play a district attorney whose daughter contracts a rare illness and needs new lungs. After discovering she's low on the official U.S. waiting list, he heads to Mexico to buy his way onto their list. But his ethical nature is put to the test when he has to choose between saving hundreds of children being killed for their organs or saving his daughter's life.
Baltasar Kormakur will direct the film for producers Nathalie Marciano and Michelle Chydzik Sowa of 26 Films (Nia Vardalos' upcoming comedy My Life in Ruins) and Jennifer Kelly.
Christian Escario penned the screenplay, and John Claflin (Fool's Gold) handled the rewrite. The six-week New Mexico shoot begins in late April.
Mulroney (Zodiac) starred in 26 Films' first production, The Wedding Date, for Universal. Kormakur directed A Little Trip to Heaven. Both are repped by ICM.
Mulroney will play a district attorney whose daughter contracts a rare illness and needs new lungs. After discovering she's low on the official U.S. waiting list, he heads to Mexico to buy his way onto their list. But his ethical nature is put to the test when he has to choose between saving hundreds of children being killed for their organs or saving his daughter's life.
Baltasar Kormakur will direct the film for producers Nathalie Marciano and Michelle Chydzik Sowa of 26 Films (Nia Vardalos' upcoming comedy My Life in Ruins) and Jennifer Kelly.
Christian Escario penned the screenplay, and John Claflin (Fool's Gold) handled the rewrite. The six-week New Mexico shoot begins in late April.
Mulroney (Zodiac) starred in 26 Films' first production, The Wedding Date, for Universal. Kormakur directed A Little Trip to Heaven. Both are repped by ICM.
I guess organ harvesting is becoming a fad as Dermot Mulroney will star Run for Her Life for producer-financier 26 Films. Mulroney will play a district attorney whose daughter contracts a rare illness and needs new lungs. After discovering she's low on the official U.S. waiting list, he heads to Mexico to buy his way onto their list. But his ethical nature is put to the test when he has to choose between saving hundreds of children being killed for their organs or saving his daughter's life. The film joins Lionsgate's Repo! The Genetic Opera and its rip-off Repossession Mambo as two upcoming films focused on organ harvesting. Baltasar Kormakur will direct the film. Christian Escario penned the screenplay, and John Claflin handled the rewrite. The six-week New Mexico shoot begins in late April.
- 3/3/2008
- bloody-disgusting.com
The last time Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson did the rom-com thing was in 2003's middling How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.
They are reunited in an adventure comedy by the name of Fool's Gold, though it could have been called "How to Lose an Audience in 10 Minutes."
A soggy, listless affair, this would-be fun-in-the-sun sunken-treasure frivolity starts taking on water from the get-go, thanks to drawn-out exposition and languid pacing.
Director Andy Tennant has demonstrated a Midas touch with such movies as Hitch and Sweet Home Alabama, though without a Will Smith or Reese Witherspoon to ride out those rough patches, "Fool's Gold" likely will mine a lot less lucre, especially given a market that's currently awash in date-night fare.
McConaughey's Ben "Finn" Finnegan is a career booty hunter whose burning obsession concerns the legendary Queen's Dowry, a shipload of priceless Spanish treasure believed to have sunk in Caribbean waters in the early 1700s.
His latest ill-fated expedition has landed him in deep water with ruthless rapper-gangster Bigg Bunny (Kevin Hart), with whom he already is in escalating debt.
While Finn is being forced to walk the plank off Bigg Bunny's boat, his ex is about to mark the spot on their divorce papers.
Even though the Queen's Dowry was what initially brought them together, for the past eight years Kate Hudson's Tess has watched their marriage continually place second to Finn's undersea pursuits.
Determined to get her life back on track, she's been working as a steward aboard the Precious Gem, a huge yacht owned by billionaire Nigel Honeycutt (Donald Sutherland).
But when Finn finds a shard of a plate that puts the treasure in the immediate vicinity, all is forgiven, and the pair resume the joint hunt with Nigel's support, along with his alarmingly dimwitted daughter (an amusing Alexis Dziena).
Although it's easy to see the appeal of this sort of vehicle -- think a sexier National Treasure -- the end product, with a script credited to Tennant along with the team of John Claflin & Daniel Zelman, has all the buoyancy and shimmer of a shipwreck.
And it's not just all that water slowing everything down.
There's also endless speculating about the coordinates of the Queen's Dowry that gets so involved that Nigel's daughter isn't the only one whose eyes become permanently glazed over.
Not surprisingly, that escapist, tropical location (with Queensland, Australia, standing in for the Caribbean because of hurricane season) affords ample opportunity for topless scenes.
But enough about McConaughey.
Hudson, meanwhile, opts to keep her shirt on, and though she and her co-star have an easy chemistry, her stiffly written character harnesses her in a constricted performance that cheats the audience out of her usual comedic gifts.
Production values, from Don Burgess' sun-drenched cinematography to George Fenton's calypso-infused score, do their bit to set the breezy tone, but where's Jimmy Buffett when you really need him?
FOOL'S GOLD
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. presents a DeLine Pictures/Bernie Goldmann production
Credits:
Director: Andy Tennant
Screenwriters: John Claflin & Daniel Zelman, Andy Tennant
Story: John Claflin & Daniel Zelman
Producers: Donald DeLine, Bernie Goldmann, John Klane
Executive producers: Wink Mordaunt, James R. Dyer
Director of photography: Don Burgess
Production designer: Charles Wood
Music: George Fenton
Co-producer: Stephen Jones
Costume designer: Ngila Dickson
Editors: Troy Takaki, Tracey Wadmore-Smith
Cast:
Finn: Matthew McConaughey
Tess: Kate Hudson
Nigel Honeycutt: Donald Sutherland
Gemma Honeycutt: Alexis Dziena
Alfonz: Ewen Bremner
Moe Fitch: Ray Winstone
Bigg Bunny: Kevin Hart
Cordell: Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Running time -- 113 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
They are reunited in an adventure comedy by the name of Fool's Gold, though it could have been called "How to Lose an Audience in 10 Minutes."
A soggy, listless affair, this would-be fun-in-the-sun sunken-treasure frivolity starts taking on water from the get-go, thanks to drawn-out exposition and languid pacing.
Director Andy Tennant has demonstrated a Midas touch with such movies as Hitch and Sweet Home Alabama, though without a Will Smith or Reese Witherspoon to ride out those rough patches, "Fool's Gold" likely will mine a lot less lucre, especially given a market that's currently awash in date-night fare.
McConaughey's Ben "Finn" Finnegan is a career booty hunter whose burning obsession concerns the legendary Queen's Dowry, a shipload of priceless Spanish treasure believed to have sunk in Caribbean waters in the early 1700s.
His latest ill-fated expedition has landed him in deep water with ruthless rapper-gangster Bigg Bunny (Kevin Hart), with whom he already is in escalating debt.
While Finn is being forced to walk the plank off Bigg Bunny's boat, his ex is about to mark the spot on their divorce papers.
Even though the Queen's Dowry was what initially brought them together, for the past eight years Kate Hudson's Tess has watched their marriage continually place second to Finn's undersea pursuits.
Determined to get her life back on track, she's been working as a steward aboard the Precious Gem, a huge yacht owned by billionaire Nigel Honeycutt (Donald Sutherland).
But when Finn finds a shard of a plate that puts the treasure in the immediate vicinity, all is forgiven, and the pair resume the joint hunt with Nigel's support, along with his alarmingly dimwitted daughter (an amusing Alexis Dziena).
Although it's easy to see the appeal of this sort of vehicle -- think a sexier National Treasure -- the end product, with a script credited to Tennant along with the team of John Claflin & Daniel Zelman, has all the buoyancy and shimmer of a shipwreck.
And it's not just all that water slowing everything down.
There's also endless speculating about the coordinates of the Queen's Dowry that gets so involved that Nigel's daughter isn't the only one whose eyes become permanently glazed over.
Not surprisingly, that escapist, tropical location (with Queensland, Australia, standing in for the Caribbean because of hurricane season) affords ample opportunity for topless scenes.
But enough about McConaughey.
Hudson, meanwhile, opts to keep her shirt on, and though she and her co-star have an easy chemistry, her stiffly written character harnesses her in a constricted performance that cheats the audience out of her usual comedic gifts.
Production values, from Don Burgess' sun-drenched cinematography to George Fenton's calypso-infused score, do their bit to set the breezy tone, but where's Jimmy Buffett when you really need him?
FOOL'S GOLD
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. presents a DeLine Pictures/Bernie Goldmann production
Credits:
Director: Andy Tennant
Screenwriters: John Claflin & Daniel Zelman, Andy Tennant
Story: John Claflin & Daniel Zelman
Producers: Donald DeLine, Bernie Goldmann, John Klane
Executive producers: Wink Mordaunt, James R. Dyer
Director of photography: Don Burgess
Production designer: Charles Wood
Music: George Fenton
Co-producer: Stephen Jones
Costume designer: Ngila Dickson
Editors: Troy Takaki, Tracey Wadmore-Smith
Cast:
Finn: Matthew McConaughey
Tess: Kate Hudson
Nigel Honeycutt: Donald Sutherland
Gemma Honeycutt: Alexis Dziena
Alfonz: Ewen Bremner
Moe Fitch: Ray Winstone
Bigg Bunny: Kevin Hart
Cordell: Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Running time -- 113 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson, who starred together in 2003's How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, are reuniting for Fool's Gold, an adventure comedy Andy Tennant will direct for Warner Bros. Pictures. Bernie Goldmann, Donald DeLine and Jon Klane are producing. The story revolves around a husband and wife who have spent eight years searching for a lost treasure and are on the brink of bankruptcy and divorce when a clue to the payday surfaces, forcing the couple to reunite to find their fortune. The script was written by Kenneth Lonergan from an original screenplay by John Claflin and Daniel Zelman.
Matt LeBlanc, star of NBC's Joey, has set up sci-fi horror thriller The Watch at Dream Entertainment with Victor Salva attached to direct. LeBlanc will produce with his partner John Goldstone via the duo's Fort Hill Prods. Based on a original screenplay by John Claflin and Daniel Zelman, the World War II-set Watch revolves around a team of highly specialized soldiers sent to blow up a Nazi fuel depot, only to discover they are being hunted by an evil spirit unleashed by the Nazi's secret occult experiments. Dream Entertainment is financing the picture, and the company's Yitzhak Ginsberg also will act as a producer.
- 11/3/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Fresh off the successful rollout of his sequel to Jeepers Creepers, Victor Salva has been tapped by New Line Cinema to write and direct the World War II thriller The Watch. Based on an original script by John Claflin and Daniel Zelman, The Watch revolves around a team of inexperienced soldiers who are sent to blow up a critical Nazi bridge only to discover that they are being hunted by Abaddon, a spirit of the devil. The Watch is being produced by Verna Harrah and John Goldstone, while New Line production execs Stokely Chaffin, Michele Weiss and Jeff Katz are overseeing for the studio. Salva is best known as the creative force behind the Jeepers Creepers series, both installments of which he wrote and directed. He also wrote and directed the 1995 Buena Vista drama Powder. Salva is repped by the Gersh Agency and attorney Matthew Saver.
- 9/19/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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