A movie that won't win any awards from the Mexican-American Border Tourism board, Inhale takes the idea of organ-transplant tourism and drops it squarely in the middle of a dramatic thriller. It's not a comfortable fit. Directed by Baltasar Kormakur from a script by Walter Doty and John Claflin, the film plops a privileged American attorney, Paul Stanton (Dermot Mulroney), onto the drug cartel mean streets of Juarez. He's carrying big stashes of cash, trying to buy a pair of lungs for his dying daughter. Can you spell trouble down Mexico way? Kormakur initially bounces back and forth in time, following Stanton as he runs in circles in Juarez, from one bad neighborhood to another, in search of a mysterious Dr. Navarro, who supposedly has a pipeline to transplantable organs and a way to move newcomers to the top of the transplant...
- 10/20/2010
- by Marshall Fine
- Huffington Post
The trailer and images are now available from IFC's Inhale drama which opens on October 22nd in La and New York. Baltasar Kormakur (Brúðguminn, Jar City) directs from the writing by John Claflin and Walter A. Doty III from the story by Christian Escario. Michelle Chydzik Sowa, Jennifer Kelly and Nathalie Marciano produce. The strong cast includes Dermot Mulroney, Diane Kruger, Jordi Molla, Vincent Perez, Rosanna Arquette and Sam Shepard. Every day, rising Santa Fe District Attorney Paul Stanton and his wife, Diane, wait for word that there’s a donor for their daughter, Chloe. Diagnosed with a rare degenerative condition, Chloe is on a long list to receive a double lung transplant. As her health worsens, Paul becomes desperate to save his young child…so desperate that he’ll risk everything to organize an operation. When Paul learns of a Dr. Novarro who performs transplants in Juarez, Mexico, he...
- 10/15/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
North American rights to Baltasar Kormákur’s latest thriller "Inhale," starring Dermot Mulroney, Diane Kruger, Sam Shepard, Vincent Perez, and Rosanna Arquette, have been bought up by IFC Films. Written by Walter Doty and John Claflin, the film will have its U.S. premiere at the Woodstock Film Festival on October 1st, before being available nationwide via IFC's VOD network. The film will hit theaters in NYC October 22nd. In the film, Mulroney ...
- 9/2/2010
- Indiewire
By Gregg Kilday
IFC Films has acquired U.S. rights to Baltasar Kormakur's thriller "Inhale," starring Dermot Mulroney, Diane Kruger and Sam Shepard.
The movie concerns a man's desperate search to get a lung transplant for his daughter. It was written by Walter Doty and John Claflin, with the story by Christian Escario, and was produced by Nathalie Marciano, Jennifer Kelly, and Michelle Chydzik Sowa.
26 Films produced in association with Kormákur's company, Blueeyes Productions.
It will open theatrically at New York City's IFC Center on Oct. 22 and will also be offered on IFC’s movies-on-demand VOD platform.
The deal was negotiated by IFC’'s Arianna Bocco and Wme Independent on behalf of the filmmakers.
IFC Films has acquired U.S. rights to Baltasar Kormakur's thriller "Inhale," starring Dermot Mulroney, Diane Kruger and Sam Shepard.
The movie concerns a man's desperate search to get a lung transplant for his daughter. It was written by Walter Doty and John Claflin, with the story by Christian Escario, and was produced by Nathalie Marciano, Jennifer Kelly, and Michelle Chydzik Sowa.
26 Films produced in association with Kormákur's company, Blueeyes Productions.
It will open theatrically at New York City's IFC Center on Oct. 22 and will also be offered on IFC’s movies-on-demand VOD platform.
The deal was negotiated by IFC’'s Arianna Bocco and Wme Independent on behalf of the filmmakers.
- 9/2/2010
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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