‘Ex-Husbands’ Co-Stars Griffin Dunne & James Norton Talk Interim Agreements & Hopes For Fair Strike Resolution Soon – San Sebastian
24.09.2023 - 18:17
/ deadline.com
Noah Pritzker’s bittersweet father and sons tale Ex-Husbands (aka Men Of Divorce) world premieres in Competition at the San Sebastian Film Festival on Sunday as one of the few U.S. productions to be accompanied by its cast this year thanks to its SAG-AFTRA interim agreement.
Griffin Dunne co-stars as a New York dentist who is reeling from his wife’s demand for a divorce after 35 years of marriage, opposite James Norton and Miles Heizer as his sons.
In search of some respite, he unwittingly travels to the Mexican resort of Tulum the same weekend as his oldest son’s bachelor party, where it emerges that he is not the only one suffering a life crisis.
The mainly Spanish press gave the warm-hearted picture – exploring family bonds and questions about love, life and death – an enthusiastic reception at a packed 8.30 am screening on Sunday morning ahead of a gala screening this evening.
Produced by Academy Award winner Bruce Cohen (American Beauty) under his Play Book Productions banner, Alexandra Byer at Rathaus Films and Nicolás Celis at Mexico City-based Pimienta Films (Birds of Passage), Ex-Husbands is among just under 500 independent feature productions to have qualified for a SAG-AFTRA Agreement since the beginning of the Actors’ Strike on July 14.
Pritzker said the interim agreement was a game-changer for a independent production like Ex-Husbands.
“It’s a small independent movie looking for distribution so to come without cast would have been presented a whole other set of challenges,” he said.
Dunne, who takes an executive producer credit on the film, said he consulted with SAG before agreeing to join the festival tour.
“They recognise that this film did not have a distributor, was independently financed and wasn’t