Filmmaker
Sam Dolan has a difficult relationship with his father, B-movie actor Booth
Dolan—a boisterous, opinionated, lying lothario whose screen legacy falls
somewhere between cult hero and pathetic. Allie, Sam’s dearly departed mother,
was a woman whose only fault, in Sam’s eyes, was her eternal affection for his
father. Also included in the cast of indelible characters: a precocious,
frequently violent half-sister; a conspiracy-theorist second wife; an
Internet-famous roommate; a family friend and contractor who can’t stop
expanding his house; a happy-go-lucky college girlfriend and her husband, a
retired Yankees catcher; the morose producer of a true crime show; and a
slouching indie film legend. Not to mention a tragic sex monster.
Unraveling the
tumultuous, decades-spanning story of the Dolan family’s friends, lovers, and
adversaries, Double Feature is
about letting go of everything—regret, resentment, ambition, dignity, moving
pictures, the dead—and taking it again from the top. Combining propulsive
storytelling and mordant wit against the backdrop of indie filmmaking, Double Feature brims with a deep understanding
of the trials of ambition and art, of relationships and life, and of our
attempts to survive it all.
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