Channing-Led 'Multiple Sarcasms' Gets Theatrical Release March, 2010

Variety reports the indie ensemble drama "Multiple Sarcasms" will receive a theatrical release in March, 2010. Initially, the release will take place in Los Angeles, San Fransisco, and New York. "Multiple Sarcasms" stars Broadway's Stockard Channing, Timothy Hutton and Dana Delaney, as well as Mira Sorvino, Mario Van Peebles, Laila Robbins, and India Ennenga.

Eventually, "Multiple Sarcasms" is expected to hit other markets in late Spring of 2010. The film was written, directed, and produced by Brooks Branch, the one-time marketing executive of Multiple Avenue Releasing, who will distribute the film.

"Multiple Sarcasms," set in 1970s New York, centers around Gabriel (Timothy Hutton), a man who, on the surface, has it all - successful professional life as an architect, a beautiful wife, and a devoted young daughter. But slowly it dawns on him that he is not really happy. Gabriel decides that he wants to write a play about the sorry state of his life. He quits his job, gets a pushy literary agent friend to represent him and starts writing. The changes that occur in his life after this leads him to further question what makes him happy.

Stockard Channing's extensive theatre credits include "Joe Egg" (Tony Award, Drama Desk nomination), "Hapgood" (Drama Desk nomination), "Love Letters" (original cast), "Woman in Mind" (Drama Desk Award), "The Rink," "The Golden Age," "They're Playing Our Song," "Little Foxes," and her work in "The Lion in Winter," "House of Blue Leaves" (Drama Desk nomination), "Four Baboons Adoring the Sun," and "Six Degrees of Separation" (Drama Desk nomination) earned her four Tony Award nominations. For "Six Degrees..." she received an Obie Award and Drama League Award for Performance of the Year as well as an Olivier Award nomination when she performed the play in London. When she recreated her "Six Degrees..." role for film, she was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe. Other film credits include "Bright Young Things," "Must Love Dogs," "The Business of Strangers" (AFI Film Award nomination), "Where the Heart Is," "Practical Magic," "Twilight," "The First Wives' Club," "Smoke" (SAG nomination), "Moll Flanders," "Heartburn," "Grease" (People's Choice Award), "Isn't She Great?" and the upcoming "Sparkle," and "Multiple Sarcasms." In 2002, Ms. Channing won two Emmy Awards for her roles as First Lady Abby Bartlet on NBC's "The West Wing," and for the role of Judy Shepard in "The Matthew Shepard Story," for which she also received a Screen Actors Guild Award. She received a 2005 Daytime Emmy Award for her role in "Jack."

 

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