Still best known as Jim from “The Office,” John Krasinski has been eager to change up his persona and stretch his creative wings. A few years back, he directed his debut feature, the David Foster Wallace adaptation “Brief Interviews With Hideous Men;” and on the acting front, he went gritty earlier this year in Michael Bay‘s “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi.” And right around the same time that movie came out, Krasinski was in Sundance unspooling his latest feature effort, “The Hollars.”
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Co-starring Margo Martindale, Richard Jenkins, Sharlto Copley, Anna Kendrick, Charlie Day, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Josh Groban and Randall Park, the story follows a New York City artist who returns home when his mother falls ill, and has to face the family he left behind. Here’s the official synopsis:
John Hollar, a struggling NYC artist is forced to navigate the small middle-American town he left behind when news of his mother’s illness brings him home. Back in the house he grew up in, John is immediately swept up in the problems of his dysfunctional family, high school rival, and an over-eager ex-girlfriend as he faces impending fatherhood with his girlfriend in New York.
“The Hollars” opens on August 26th.
