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Director: Alex Ross Perry
Writer(s): Alex Ross Perry
Cast: Jason Schwartzman, Elisabeth Moss, Jonathan Pryce
A complex, intimate, and highly idiosyncratic comedy, Listen Up Philip is a literary look at the triumph of reality over the human spirit. Anger rages in Philip (Jason Schwartzman) as he awaits the publication of his sure-to-succeed second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley (Elisabeth Moss), and his indifference to promoting his own work. When Philip’s idol Ike Zimmerman (Jonathan Pryce) offers his isolated summer home as a refuge, he finally gets the peace and quiet to focus on his favorite subject – himself.
“A very entertaining black comedy for very mysterious reasons.” – John Anderson, Wall Street Journal
“As a rising young novelist in the Philip Roth vein, Schwartzman delivers Perry’s dyspeptic, neurotic, supremely arrogant dialogue even better than Perry himself did in the earlier movie.” J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader
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108 MIN