 |
 |
|
Projects
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
Playing House
|
|
Format:
|
Movie For Television
|
|
Status:
|
Produced
|
|
This is the story of Frannie and
Calvin, a pair of early thirty-somethings living in Manhattan. They
have been casually dating for a couple of months when Frannie discovers
that she is pregnant. For reasons they will at first resist, and then
embrace, they end up in Toronto, Frannie's childhood home, and the two
of them fall into a grudging domesticity. Neither of them has a clue
how to cook, keep house, or raise a child, and Calvin - being an
experimental jazz musician - has never even had a steady nine-to-five
job. Things become complicated for Frannie when the irresistible
Michael appears, offering her glamour, intellectual stimulation, and a
chance to return to her old life as an editor for a famous literary
magazine back in New York. In the end, Frannie realizes that true love
is deeper than a Glamorous Romance - it's a shared sense of home and
family, humor and vulnerability, something that only Calvin can offer
her.
The story is a romantic comedy, using a twist on the old children's
rhyme: "first comes love, then comes marriage." In this case, first
comes a baby. Then, after a prolonged period of panic, comes love. It's
a comic exploration of a distinctly modern, female crisis: the
once-sexy, fun-loving career girl stumbling into the parallel universe
of motherhood, and trying to balance everything while still retaining
her sanity.
Starring
Joanne Kelly
Lucas Bryant
Colin Ferguson
Written By
Michelle Lovretta
Directed By
Kelly Makin
Executive Producers
Anne Marie La Traverse
Noreen Halpern
John Morayniss
Suzanne Berger
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
