Focus World Picks Up Ruth & Alex, starring Morgan Freeman and Diane KeatonPosted by Wilson Morales
September 17, 2014
Focus World, the alternative distribution initiative owned and operated by Focus Features, has acquired domestic distribution rights to director Richard Loncraine’s Ruth and Alex.
The film recently had its world premiere at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.
Written by Charlie Peters, cast includes Morgan Freeman, Diane Keaton, Cynthia Nixon, Michael Cristofer, Claire Vanderboom, Korey Jackson, Carrie Preston, Sterling Jerins, Josh Pais, and Miriam Shor.
Based on Jill Ciment‘s novel Heroic Measures, the film is a wise comedy about life, love, and real estate, Ruth & Alex stars Academy Award winners Diane Keaton and Morgan Freeman as a couple whose attempts at relocation send them on an urban odyssey — and help them redefine the meaning of home.
When Ruth (Diane Keaton) and Alex (Morgan Freeman) first moved to Brooklyn, it was the 1970s — years before gentrification, and years before they would realize that they won’t always be physically able to climb several flights of stairs just to get home. Still highly active, yet feeling the undeniable effects of age, the couple opts to put their apartment on the market. But the decision coincides with a flurry of problematic events. A trailer jackknifes on the Williamsburg Bridge and the driver inexplicably flees the scene, putting all of New York on an overblown terrorist alert. The couple’s dog becomes ill and the vet bill comes to $10,000. An overwhelming sequence of encounters with realtors, agents, and snotty bargain hunters only adds to their troubles.
