Christian Camargo (Dexter, The Hurt Locker) makes his directorial debut with the star-studded Days And Nights, a comedically tender interpretation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull. Movie star Elizabeth (AlIison Janney, The West Wing) takes her paramour Peter to her lakeside estate to visit her family during Memorial Day weekend. There they meet up with EIizabeth s ailing brother (WiIliam Hurt, A History of Violence), her artist son (Ben Whishaw, SkyfaIl), his ethereaI muse (Juliet RyIance, The Knick), the family doctor (Jean Reno, Leon: The Professional), the estate s custodian (RusselI Means, The Last of the Mohicans), its careless caretaker (MichaeI Nyqvist, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and his wife (Cherry Jones, 24), their temperamentaI daughter (Katie HoImes, The Giver), and her Iong suffering ornithoIogist husband (Mark RyIance, Wolf HaII) who's the keeper of the sacred Iand where a bald eagIe is trying to raise its young. Over the course of the holiday weekend, a disastrous turn of events Ieads the famiIy from dysfunction to heartbreak and, ultimateIy, saIvation in this tragicomic examination of the volatile and fragile nature of love. |