Here's your first look at Best Picture heavyweight 'Manchester by the Sea'
LOS ANGELES -- Manchester by the Sea was one of those rare films, like Spotlight, that was an Oscar Best Picture nomination on arrival.
That arrival came on January 24, during the Sundance Film Festival, the first and only public screening of the film so far. The reviews of Kenneth Lonergan's masterpiece were swooning -- it would be 100% on Rotten Tomatoes were it not for something called Redeye.
Like many Sundance debuts, it would be months before the first trailer arrived. And here it is.
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Casey Affleck, an ironclad lock for a Best Actor nomination here, plays a down-on-his-luck handyman suddenly forced to play guardian to his high-school-aged nephew (Lucas Hedges). The film is both emotionally searing and laugh-out-loud funny, and all the while it's hiding something dark and powerful. In a word, it's a masterwork.
Amazon and Roadside Attractions bought the film in the runup to Sundance, and now the studio that before last year had never released a film is suddenly in the Oscar race.
Manchester by the Sea will arrive in theaters on Nov. 18, and sometime thereafter on Amazon Prime, then appear at the 89th Academy Awards on Feb. 26, 2017.
You can count on it.
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Josh Dickey is Mashable's Entertainment Editor, leading Mashable's TV, music, gaming and sports reporters as well as writing movie features and reviews.Josh has been the Film Editor at Variety, Entertainment Editor at The Associated Press and Managing Editor at TheWrap.com.A finalist for the Los Angeles Press Club's Best Entertainment Feature in 2015 for "Everyone is Altered: The Secret Hollywood Procedure that Fooled Us for Years," Josh received his BA in Journalism from The University of Minnesota.In between screenings, he can be found skating longboards, shredding guitar and wandering the streets of his beloved downtown Los Angeles.
