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Sundance 2015: Buzz Films

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Jan 20, 2015 4:17 PM
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Mistress America
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Mistress America

A lonely college freshman's life is flipped upside down by her impulsive and audacious soon-to-be stepsister. Starring Greta Gerwig and Gone Girl's Lola Kirke.  


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Knock Knock

Many could think two beautiful women showing up anywhere unexpectedly would be a good thing. Not for Keanu Reeves, who plays a married man left home alone for the weekend, when his worst nightmares come knock-knocking at his door.


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The End of the Tour

A magazine reporter (The Social Network's Jesse Eisenberg) recaps on his travels and conversations with author David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel) during a promotional book tour.


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Mississippi Grind

A man down on his luck—both financially and emotionally—teams up with an alluring poker player in an effort to change his circumstances. Expect to see A-listers like Sienna Miller and Ryan Reynolds.


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Thomas Scott Stanton

Take Me to the River

Secrets always seem to come out, right? The Bling Ring's Logan Miller plays a naive California teen who tries to avoid the chaos of his own family reunion, yet ends up discovering something much more unsettling then he could have ever imagined.


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H.

A meteor strike in the city of Troy, N.Y., leads to plenty of strange circumstances, focusing on the stories of two women (Robin Bartlett and Rebecca Dayan) and the unraveling of their previously normal lives.


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Slow West

Ah, young love. Luckily for 16-year-old Jay Cavendish who is on a journey to find his soulmate, mysterious drifter (Michael Fassbender) tags along for the ride while being hotly pursued by an outlaw along the way.


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Pat Redmond

Glassland

Transformers Age of Extinction's Jack Reynor takes on a dramatic role as a taxi driver who becomes involved in the world of human trafficking in order to save his substance-abusing mother (Toni Collete).


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Nasty Baby

A gay couple attempts to have a baby with the help of their best friend, Polly (Kirsten Wiig). This unconventional method of bringing life into the world doesn't sit well with fellow neighbors.


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Ben King

Partisan

Black Swan's Vincent Cassel is Alexander, a boy trained to be an assassin by his own father, who along the way, begins to see the world outside of his father's corrupted perspective.


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Entertainment

A bitter, aging comedian (John C. Reilly) plays a slew of dead-end shows in the Mojave Desert. Michael Cera is also in this laugh-inducing portrayal of a man trying to relaunch his career.


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Ross McDonnell

Strangerland

Newcomers to the remote Australian desert town of Nathgari, Catherine (Nicole Kidman) and her husband discover their kids are missing, arousing suspicions in others as they try to unravel the mystery of their children's wherabouts.


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Z for Zachariah

Things get messy when Caleb (Chris Pine) and Loomis (Chiwetel Ejiofor) vye after the same woman—Wolf of Wall Street's Margot Robbie—the last female standing in a post-apocolyptic world with only three survivors.


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Aaron Epstein

Stockholm, Pennsylvania

Lovely Bones actress Saoirse Ronan plays Leia, a girl who is kidnapped as a child and returns to her family years later, forcing her to rediscover what it means to be home.


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David Moir

Dope

This coming of age story exposes the struggles of growing up in Inglewood, where youths have no choice but to face the reality of drugs, gangsters, and violence. Expect to see the likes of Zoë Kravitz, A$AP Rocky and Tyga.


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Ryan Muir

People, Places, Things

A newly single graphic novelist tries to balance parenting twins and teaching students. As if that's not already enough, he falls in love with Think Like a Man Too's Regina Hall while trying to move on from his past unrequited lover.


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The Overnight

Orange is the New Black's Taylor Schilling plays Emily, a mother who just moved to Los Angeles with her husband and son, causing them to encounter a mysterious family and undergo a series of comedic events.


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Anne Marie Fox

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

A young reclused filmmaker befriends a classmate with Leukemia thanks to the advice of his mother, Nashville's Connie Britton, causing him to reconsider his lone wolf ways.


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Eric Lin

I Smile Back

A wife and mother living on the edge, Laney Brooks (Sarah Silverman) stops taking her meds, only to start engaging in recreartional drug use and sexual escapades with strange men.


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Sam Emerson

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

Fifteen-year-old Minnie is an aspiring comicbook artist living in the 1970s, pretty normal right? But that's not all--she's engaging in a steamy love affair with her mother's boyfriend (Alexander Skarsgård).


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Scott Henriksen

The Bronze

Big Bang Theory's Melissa Raunch plays Hope Ann Greggory, an American hero who once won the bronze medal for the women's gymnastics team, but is now facing the loss of her celebrity status due to a promising young gymast. 


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Dagmar Weaver Madsen

Unexpected

Cobie Smulders takes on the role of a high school science teacher at a low-income school who has just found out she's pregnant. Even though her boyfriend, John, proposes and is overjoyed to begin their new life together, she struggles with the idea of putting her career on hold for motherhood.


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Ryan Green

Results

A new divorcee, Kevin Corrigan, experiences a momentous trip to the local gym, where he meets self-styled guru/owner Trevor (Guy Pearce) and irresistibly sharp-tongued trainer Kat (Cobie Smulders). Their three lives become uncomfortably intertwined both professionally and personally.


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Hilary Bronwyn Gayle

The D Train

Jack Black is determined to put his high-school insecurities to rest by attending his 20th year reunion with former popular kid (James Marsden), who is now a washed-up actor.

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