American actor and screenwriter Devon Graye has come a long way since his role in Justin Schwarz’s The Discoverers won him the GenArtist Emerging Actor Award at the Gen Art Film Festival in 2013. He played Jack, starring alongside Griffin Dunne, Madeleine Martin, Cara Buono, and John Christopher McGinley in the dark comedy film, the first production to acknowledge his talent with an award. A decade later, Graye would consolidate his growing reputation in the film industry with performances in varying genres of movies while appearing in popular television shows, including The Lincoln Lawyer, PEN15, S.W.A.T., and The Flash. He...
- 11/6/2023
- by Banks Onuoha
- TVovermind.com
Griffin Dunne is back in a leading role again.
The actor was well known back in the 1980s with cult movie favorites like “An American Werewold in London,” “After Hours” and “Who’s That Girl” with Madonna.
Dunne returns to a leading role in the indie comedy “The Discoverers,” which also stars Madeleine Martin, Dreama Walker and Cara Buono.
The Justin Schwarz directed film is about a dysfunctional family who had to re-discover about themselves during a Lewis and Clark reenactment expedition.
In an exclusive phone interview with Latino-Review, Dunne talked about the film, his career for the past 30 years, re-enactments and the history tidbits of Lewis and Clark.
“The Discoverers” is currently available on VOD. It also playing in select theaters in New York and Los Angeles.
Latino-Review: What’s it like to be back in a leading role again?
Griffin Dunne: Well, it’s better being an...
The actor was well known back in the 1980s with cult movie favorites like “An American Werewold in London,” “After Hours” and “Who’s That Girl” with Madonna.
Dunne returns to a leading role in the indie comedy “The Discoverers,” which also stars Madeleine Martin, Dreama Walker and Cara Buono.
The Justin Schwarz directed film is about a dysfunctional family who had to re-discover about themselves during a Lewis and Clark reenactment expedition.
In an exclusive phone interview with Latino-Review, Dunne talked about the film, his career for the past 30 years, re-enactments and the history tidbits of Lewis and Clark.
“The Discoverers” is currently available on VOD. It also playing in select theaters in New York and Los Angeles.
Latino-Review: What’s it like to be back in a leading role again?
Griffin Dunne: Well, it’s better being an...
- 6/3/2014
- by Gig Patta
- LRMonline.com
I’ve long been a fan of Griffin Dunne, since the days of An American Werewolf in London, so it’s a treat to see him back in a leading role that’s worthy of his talent. The film is called The Discoverers, and it’s a low-key but satisfying comedy-drama that marks the feature debut of writer-director Justin Schwarz. Dunne’s character is a bit of a jerk, a self-absorbed academic who has been working obsessively on a massive text about the Lewis and Clark expedition. He is heading across the country for a teaching job he desperately needs, but along the way he’s obliged to pick up his alienated teenage kids (Madeleine Martin and Devon Graye) and look after them. The last thing they want...
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- 5/16/2014
- by Leonard Maltin
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
In his debut feature, Justin Schwarz is clearly drawing from the same bag of tricks as many of his indie comedy predecessors, but he's refining them. Even his wide, Wes Anderson-ian compositions have a purpose.
Paintings are everywhere in this film about shaping history, setting up a nostalgic framework before the central characters forge out into the semi-unknown.
After the death of his mother, harried academic Lewis (Griffin Dunne) is forced to return home to Idaho with moody teens in tow. They arrive to find that grieving Grandpa Stanley (Stuart Margolin) has begun to take his "rather unhealthy Lewis and Clark obsession" to the next level. And so the disgruntled tribe sets off, period costumes and all, re-enacting the 1804 expedition with a band of history buffs in o...
Paintings are everywhere in this film about shaping history, setting up a nostalgic framework before the central characters forge out into the semi-unknown.
After the death of his mother, harried academic Lewis (Griffin Dunne) is forced to return home to Idaho with moody teens in tow. They arrive to find that grieving Grandpa Stanley (Stuart Margolin) has begun to take his "rather unhealthy Lewis and Clark obsession" to the next level. And so the disgruntled tribe sets off, period costumes and all, re-enacting the 1804 expedition with a band of history buffs in o...
- 5/14/2014
- Village Voice
One of the biggest disappointments of 2013 was that despite its successful film festival run, Justin Schwarz's debut feature, The Discoverers, never landed the high profile distribution deal that it truly deserves. As I stated in my glowing 8 out of 10 review of The Discoverers: It is the smartness of the writing that escalates The Discoverers above the recent barrage of familial reconciliation stories that have appeared in the wake of Little Miss Sunshine. The core family element — Lewis, Stanley, Zoe and Jack — all fit nicely into the mold of characters in this sub-genre, at least on the surface. Lewis and Zoe are the two characters who definitely go above and beyond their contemporaries; and it is great to see these two character types (precocious daughter, schlubby everyman father) get a lot more depth and range for once. They walk away with the wittiest and smartest dialogue of the film,...
- 4/25/2014
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
"The Discoverers" is Justin Schwarz's feature debut, a dysfunctional family road trip tale with some quirky, unprecedented elements. Griffin Dunne stars as tired history professor, who is faced with the challenge of bringing together his disconnected family, including but not limited to his deadpan teen kids (Madeleine Martin from "Californication" and Devon Graye of "American Horror Story") and his crazed Lewis-and-Clark-obsessed father (Stuart Margolin). The film will be released in NYC May 16 and in La May 30. If you think you'll find a standard array of caricatures in this bittersweet comedy, check out the trailer: you'll be pleasantly surprised.
- 4/22/2014
- by Taylor Lindsay
- Indiewire
The Sarasota Film Festival, which runs from April 5 - April 14, will open with Gabriela Cowperthwaite's "Blackfish," a documentary about the history of killer whales in captivity. The 15th annual festival will close with Noah Baumbach's "Frances Ha," starring Greta Gerwig. Sundance Special Jury Prize winner "The Spectacular Now," starring Shailene Woodley, will screen as the festival's Narrative Centerpiece Film and Barbara Kopple's documentary "Running From Crazy" will screen as the Documentary Centerpiece Film. Two-time Academy Award winner Kopple will also be honored at the festival with the Director's Award. Other highlights include the world premiere of Will Slocombe's "Pasadena," starring Peter Bogdanovich and Cheryl Hines, Carlos Puga's "Burma," Justin Schwarz' road movie "The Discoverers," and the North American premiere of Tom Gilroy's "The Cold Lands." The Sff's Visions Competition lineup will be announced March 13, along with the rest of the program. Below are the.
- 3/4/2013
- by Erin Whitney
- Indiewire
The Hamptons, New York — The past is never history in Justin Schwarz's The Discoverers, a family-reconciliation tale in which three generations of estranged relatives are forced to stick together on a historical reenactment of the Lewis and Clark expedition. More warm-hearted than funny, Schwarz's feature debut benefits from an intelligent script and sympathetic lead performance by Griffin Dunne, though commercial prospects are modest. Dunne plays Lewis Birch, a history prof whose career is foundering thanks to his inability to complete a mammoth book about York, a slave who belonged to William Clark on the 19th-century expedition
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- 10/8/2012
- by John DeFore
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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