Carrie Coon Boards Postpartum Comedy ‘Another Happy Day’; Natasha Leggero Among New Additions To Action Comedy ‘The Unexpecteds’ – Film Briefs

EXCLUSIVE: Carrie Coon (The Gilded Age) is set to appear opposite Lauren Lapkus in Another Happy Day, a postpartum depression comedy marking the feature debut of writer-director Nora Fiffer, which wrapped production last summer in Chicago and will make its world premiere at the Vail Film Festival this Saturday, December 9th.

The film centers on Joanna (Lapkus), a “total nut” who is wearing new motherhood so awkwardly that she remarks candidly “I’m not really a mom, I just have a baby, you know?” This new mom is also an artist who isn’t making any art, and feels truly terrible at taking care of her newborn, as she stumbles through her days. She can’t get her old job back, her old friends have moved on without her, her husband thinks he’s a better mother than she is, she’s terribly sleep deprived, and her baby won’t look at her. On her desperate search for a friend, she tumbles into an unlikely bond with an estranged aunt-in-law she never knew.

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Part of an ensemble also including Jessie Holder Tourtellotte, Marilyn Dodds Frank and Jean Elie, Coon additionally exec produced the pic alongside Lapkus and Eugene Sun Park. Hailing from Red Squirrel Films in association with Inherent Films, Chicago Media Angels and Production Resource Group, the film is produced by Tourtellotte, Fiffer and UPM Quinn Nicholson. UTA Independent Film Group and Circus Road Films are repping sales.

Currently starring in HBO’s The Gilded Age, Coon will next appear in Gil Kenan’s sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Azazel Jacobs’s His Three Daughters. She is repped by UTA, Foundation Talent Management and Peikoff Mahan Law Office.

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EXCLUSIVE: Natasha Leggero (He’s Not That Into You), Sandy Hernandez (The Roar of The Butterflies), Laura Patalano (This Fool) and Sonya Smith (Ladron Que Roba A Ladrón) have signed on for roles in The Unexpecteds, a forthcoming action comedy helmed by Alejandro Montoya Marin for Alta California Pictures.

They join an ensemble that also includes Matt Walsh, Alejandro De Hoyos, Chelsea Rendon, Francisco Ramos, John Kaler and Jason Konopisos-Alvarez.

The indie written by Marin follows Gary (Walsh) and a group of best friends seeking revenge from a social media influencer known as Metal Mike (Kaler) who has scammed them out of their life savings. De Hoyos’s Alta California is producing, with Kaler, Jasmin Espada, Walsh and Pedro Pano as co-producers.

Leggero is represented by CAA, Artists First and Schreck Rose Dapello; Hernandez by Stone Talent Agency & KD Talent; Patalano by LB Talent Agency, Inclusion & IAG; and Smith by Maricela Marulanda Management & Productions.

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