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Rejoice: The Trailer For Andie MacDowell And Chris O'Dowd's Mother-Son Movie Is Here

"Love After Love" opens March 30.
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Senior Entertainment Reporter, HuffPost

First thing’s first: Has Andie MacDowell’s “Magic Mike XXL” performance been enshrined in the Smithsonian yet? If not, maybe we can launch a joint campaign for that and her “Love After Love” turn.

HuffPost has the exclusive trailer for Russell Harbaugh’s directorial debut, which features MacDowell playing a theater professor piecing her life back together amid her husband’s death. Meanwhile, her relationship with her son (Chris O’Dowd) and extended family proves increasingly volatile ― but who needs the details when “Andie MacDowell stars in this movie” is already an ideal logline? 

“Love After Love,” which premiered at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, opens in select theaters and premieres on VOD platforms on March 30. It also features a handful of indie darlings, namely James Adomian (“Comedy Bang! Bang!”), Juliet Rylance (“The Knick”) and Dree Hemingway (“Starlet”).

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Best of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival
"Sorry to Bother You"(01 of06)
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We could build an entire cultural discussion around Danny Glover's career advice for Lakeith Stanfield in "Sorry to Bother You": As a telemarketer, you're better advantaged if you disguise your voice to sound white -- but not "Will Smith white." (Fun side note: Sundance juror Jada Pinkett Smith was in the audience at the premiere. Quick, someone ask what she texted her husband afterward.) But that counsel only skims the surface of this rowdy, surreal comedy about an Oakland 20-something hawking a wellness program that, come to find out, doubles as an elaborate slave-labor ploy.

With a character name like Cassius Green, an artist-activist girlfriend played by Tessa Thompson (just wait till you see her statement earrings) and a coke-guzzling boss (Armie Hammer!) who demands Cassius freestyle at a party, Stanfield and writer-director Boots Riley have conceived a character torn between wokeness, economic gain and a very human urge to keep the peace. But as events grow increasingly bizarre -- have you ever seen a horse-man penis? -- the movie also finds a soulfulness, resonating ever more strongly as it threatens to fly off the rails. Merrill Garbus ofTune-Yards fame wrote the score, so imagine an effervescent joyride in which corporate greed, racist stereotypes and palatial orgies make cameos. -- Matthew Jacobs (credit:Courtesy of Sundance Institute)
"The Miseducation of Cameron Post"(02 of06)
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For her second feature, "Appropriate Behavior" writer, director and star Desiree Akhavan tackles a topic so disturbing, it's hard to believe it actually exists. "The Miseducation of Cameron Post," based on the book by Emily Danforth, finds Cameron (Chloe Grace Moretz) engaging in a sexual relationship with a female friend before she's sent to God's Promise, a conversion-therapy center that uses traumatic methods on teens "struggling" with same-sex attraction and gender identity.

As Cameron meets her fellow "disciples," including Jane Fonda (Sasha Lane) and Adam (Forrest Goodluck), she comes to realize she's not the only one who understands that what they're being pressured to do is anything but normal. Tackling fear and confusion with laugh-out-loud humor, this coming-of-age film celebrates its characters' individualities while showing the horrors of facilities that try to manipulate young men and women into changing who they are -- facilities that are unfortunately still legal in 41 states. -- Leigh Blickley (credit:Courtesy of Sundance Institute)
"The Tale"(03 of06)
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"The Tale" will remain a conversation piece because of its courageous portrayal of sexual assault, told through the lens of a crafty documentarian (Laura Dern) reconsidering what she once convinced herself was a loving adolescent relationship with her adult running coach (Jason Ritter) and horseback riding instructor (Elizabeth Debicki). It's also a staggering piece of filmmaking.

Writer-director Jennifer Fox turns her own experiences into a meta narrative about a woman who, as a young girl, was hungry for the affection her parents denied her. Storytelling at its most adept and sophisticated, "The Tale" uses fiction conceits to depict trauma from the vantage of someone seeking the truth about her own biography. It's as much a salve as it is an investigation. Only someone with an intimate understanding of sexual power dynamics could sketch this snapshot. That Fox did is a testament to her wisdom as a filmmaker. And, as always, Dern gives a powerhouse performance. -- MJ (credit:Courtesy of Sundance Institute)
"Monsters and Men"(04 of06)
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Out of the powerful slew of race-related films to hit Sundance this year, Reinaldo Marcus Green's "Monsters and Men" stands out, partly due to its presentation of different points of view of the same bodega shooting in Brooklyn.

Featuring heart-wrenching turns by Anthony Ramos, John David Washington and Kelvin Harrison Jr., the film focuses on the story of three men -- a devoted father who inadvertently films the incident on his iPhone, a black policeman balancing work and home life, and a young baseball prodigy who risks his future for the good of his community -- as they grapple with an all-too-common tragedy on the streets of New York. -- LB (credit:Courtesy of Sundance Institute)
"Skate Kitchen"(05 of06)
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The girls in "Skate Kitchen" glide through the New York streets, skateboards propelling their adolescent odyssey. This motley clique -- made up of different races, sexualities, temperaments, insecurities -- have a preternatural connection, catching one another when they fall and absorbing each other's lives the way only teenagers can.

Director Crystal Moselle, who made the 2015 documentary "The Wolfpack," said she met the group on the subway. Incorporating their real personas, she scripted a gauzy narrative about a shy newcomer (Rachelle Vinberg) who finds refuge with this very different sort of wolf pack. Invoking shades of "Kids" and "American Honey," "Skate Kitchen" is a vérité ollie full of life at its most bittersweet and its most vivacious. The plot is loose in the best sense, and the results make for a serene jaunt through the fleeting, beautiful days that will soon make these girls -- and the boys who surround them, including one played by Jaden Smith -- nostalgic for their youth. -- MJ (credit:Courtesy of Sundance Institute)
"Colette"(06 of06)
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This movie could not come at a better time. Touching on many themes presented in the Time's Up movement, Wash Westmoreland's "Colette" highlights the story of the famed 1900s French novelist (Keira Knightley) during the period when her husband, Willy (played by a delightfully villainous Dominic West), claimed ownership over her masterful "Claudine" books.

As Colette comes to terms with her own identity -- professionally and sexually -- her marriage begins to crack, leading her to discover her own unique path to success and happiness. With delectable costumes and scenic sets, "Colette" transports you to a time when women's voices were unfortunately lost but eagerly waiting to be found. -- LB (credit:Courtesy of Sundance Institute)
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