In BACKSEAT, a 'coming of age late' story about prolonged adolescence, two old friends flee New York City on a three-day road trip to Montreal to escape their problems and meet the great Donald Sutherland. Between running drugs and meeting a man who only communicates through instant messaging, they run head-on into the always lingering problem of real life.
Directed by award-winning commercials director, Bruce van Dusen (who wrote and directed the Sundance hit COLD FEET) and written by and starring newcomer Josh Alexander, BACKSEAT is an off-beat and refreshing indie comedy about generation X as it struggles through prolonged adolescence and into adulthood. With a cast of truly wonderful up-and-comers (Will Janowitz from The Sopranos, Rob Bogue from Guiding Light, Aubrey Dollar from Women's Murder Club) and featuring a soundtrack with some of the biggest indie acts currently playing the US music scene, BACKSEAT is an entertaining, and ultimately moving snapshot of a few regular folks struggling to make sense of their lives and what they want from them.
BACKSEAT was produced by Josh Alexander and Terry Leonard (VIRGIN, STEPHANIE DALEY, HOUNDDOG, upcoming Slamdance Feature FROST). The executive producers are Henry Hardaway, Jeff Mooallem, Casey Cummings and Digital Domain's John Textor. The film features cinematography by Ari J.Issler (acclaimed documentaries THE HIP HOP PROJECT and OFF THE GRID: LIFE ON THE MESA); production and costume design by Amanda Ford (FORGIVENESS, THE HOUSE IS BURNING, LOVE COMES LATELY); editing by award-winning commercials editor Gavin Cutler and longtime Jonathan Demme collaborator Andy Keir (BELOVED, MANDELA, THE SECRET LIVES OF DENTISTS, RODGER DODGER, OFF THE MAP, THE NIGHT LISTENER, THE DYING GAUL, DEDICATION, and Alan Ball's next film, TOWELHEAD); music supervision by Jonathan Fine and Glen Caplin.
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