Hangdog
91 Minutes / USA / English / Comedy-Drama

Anxiety-riddled Walt embarks on a comic odyssey through Portland, Maine to retrieve his stolen dog before his girlfriend, Wendy, returns from her business trip, or risk losing them both.

In their debut narrative feature, husband-and-wife creative team Matt Cascella (Director and Editor) and Jen Cordery (Writer) “capture the little moments, human connections made and humans connections re-established” (Richard Propes, The Independent Critic) in a film that is “highly delightful” (Staff, Letterboxd) and “charming, original, and sweet in its own deliberately shaggy way” (Ken Eisen, MIFF Programming Director).

Matt and Jen will attend the event and will hold a Q+A after the screening.

SYNOPSIS

Walt (Desmin Borges, PRIVATE LIFE, FX's YOU'RE THE WORST) is a fish out of water in his own skin. He’s now also a fish out of water in Portland, Maine, having recently moved with his girlfriend, Wendy (Kelly O’Sullivan, SAINT FRANCES), to be closer to her parents. Without a job or a plan, and with a new dog competing for Wendy’s affections, Walt has reached peak anxiety. When Wendy leaves town for the most important business trip of her career, she entrusts Walt with one task: taking care of her fur baby, Tony. After a careless mistake gets Tony stolen, Walt embarks on a wild goose chase to retrieve the dog before Wendy returns, or risk losing them both. Along the way, he connects with locals Marianne (Barbara Rosenblat, ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK), a wisecracking nonconformist, and Brent (Steve Coulter, OPPENHEIMER, A LITTLE PRAYER), a recent widower, who force him to confront his anxieties and embrace human (and canine!) connection.

$15 general admission | $10 student
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