Today on our Sundance coverage, the spotlight turns to the films that are playing at this year's festival and on demand as part of "Direct from the Sundance Film Festival", which is available though Sundance Selects and IFC Films. "Uncle Kent" is the first film of Joe Swanberg’s to be featured in the Sundance Film Festival and the follow-up to his acclaimed films ALEXANDER THE LAST, HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS and LOL.
Uncle Kent is a sexed-up, achingly true-to-life modern comedy about aging, loneliness, desire, and the awkward intimacies of online friendship.
Kent (Kent Osborne, Hannah Takes the Stairs) is an unmarried children’s-show writer living alone with his cat in Los Angeles. He spends his days sketching gag cartoons and bouncing ideas off his hyperactive friend, Kev (Kevin Bewersdorf), a composer for the show. At night, Kent is a habitué of Internet chat rooms, staving off loneliness by drinking a beer, smoking a bowl, and dialoguing with remote strangers. One of his online acquaintances is pretty environmental journalist Kate (exciting newcomer Jennifer Prediger), who crashes at Kent’s house for the weekend while she’s in town for a conference.
Though they’ve only previously met online, Kent and Kate are instantly at ease with each other in person—shopping, talking, goofing off—and as their dynamic begins to mimic a romantic couple’s, a palpable sexual tension grows alongside their chummy rapport. The only problem is, Kate has a boyfriend. Initially, Kent respects that boundary, even though he isn’t above surreptitiously swiping some naked photos from her digital camera. Then, as an expression of solidarity in their unacknowledged sexual frustration, the flirtatious twosome arrange a three-way with online swinger Josephine (Josephine Decker), further confusing Kent—a middle-aged guy just beginning to sense the emptiness of his collegiate lifestyle—about their chaste friendship.
Screenings:
Wed, January 26th 11:59 PM Egyptian Theatre
Fri, January 28th 5:30PM Library Center Theatre
Sat, January 29 9:00 PM Tower Theatre
"Uncle Kent is also available On Demand thought Sundance Selects as part of "Direct from the Sundance Film Festival".
"Direct from the Sundance Film Festival" will be available for approximately 30 days on each cable system's main movies-on-demand channel in a special "Sundance Film Festival" branded section.
"Uncle Kent": Official Trailer
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