Karen
Moncrieff's Blue Car, which she wrote
and directed (her first attempt at both), is a complex drama that centers on a high school student who is both mentored
and desired by her teacher; the film was nominated for handful of awards and was very well-reviewed upon its limited
release in 2004, two years after it debuted at Sundance. And, based only on the list of actors lining up to participate
in Moncrieff's new film, it appears that the highly-praised screenplay on which she based that directorial debut was no
fluke. Among the names already associated with the film - an independent project entitled Dead Girl - are Toni
Collette, Marcia
Gay Harden, Giovanni
Ribisi, and Mary Steenburgen, and Piper Laurie is in final
negotiations to join them. Moncrieff's film, the breadth of which stands in stark contrast to Blue Car's intimacy, "centers on the dark mystery surrounding a young woman's death, which is gradually revealed when the lives of seemingly uninvolved people intersect." Production begins next month in LA.
1. Karen Moncrieff used to be on Days of Our Lives about twenty years ago; she played a spy, I think.
Posted at 7:21PM on Mar 24th 2006 by Shell