This membership has been gifted. The Norman A. Geske Cinema Showcase presents Co-directors, writers, and actors Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe, who will appear for a Q+A with the audience following the 7:30 p.m. screening of their film GREENER GRASS on Friday, November 8. The title conjures up wholesome images of bucolic suburban houses with perfectly manicured lawns that match their letterboxes. In DeBoer's pretty-in-pink Jill, we see that woman who apologizes to you after you step on the back of her shoe — so obsessed with being accepted she's all but destroyed by her own politeness. She is a veteran writer and performer at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. Be sure to check your spam folder if it does not show up in your inbox. The Norman A. Geske Cinema Showcase is supported by The Friends of The Ross. Every screenwriting collaboration has its own process. Some scenes almost had a French farcical aspect to them you can’t help but laugh. With a strong supporting cast including Beck Bennett (“Saturday Night Live”) and D’Arcy Carden (“The Good Place”), and unusually polished production values (DeBoer and Luebbe have an eye for visuals that are simultaneously dreamy and repulsive), “Greener Grass” is a movie that’s not only immediately destined for cult status — it’s the rare movie that truly earns it. Jocelyn fought Nazi zombies opposite Martin Starr in Tommy Wirkola's comedy DEAD SNOW II (Sundance 2014). exclaims Lisa to Jill from the soccer stands, in the opening minutes of the film. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the San Diego Union-Tribune. Company Number 9727180, “There Are Casualties As You Search For Your Identity” Minhal Baig Talks ‘Hala’, ‘Dracula Sucks’ A Polite Version Of What Francis Ford Coppola Said To Screenwriter Jim Hart, “Obsess Over Characters” Cooper Raiff Talks ‘Shithouse’, “Who Are You? In a day-glo-colored, bizarro version of suburbia where adults wear braces on … This year’s Oldenburg Film Festival programme has provided a home for two Northamerican out of the ordinary stories. Something along the lines of John Waters rebooting “Desperate Housewives” as a “Tim & Eric"-style Adult Swim sketch series might give you an idea of the aggressively strange tone writer-director-stars Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe bring to their debut feature. She recently co-wrote and co-directed her first feature, "Greener Grass", with Jocelyn DeBoer. And it only gets more surreal from there. Your payment has been processed. Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe draw artistic inspiration from filmmaking greats like John Waters and David Lynch. And then of course, there's the (literally) colorful cast of ensemble characters that round out Jill and Lisa's world — a comedic gold mine that doesn't disappoint. "As you know, Julian," Jill explains to her son, "Kim Ann recently got a divorce, and she says she's much happier, so now my friends think that I should get a divorce.". External Sites. We wanted to try something new," responds Jill with a laugh. The setting is familiar. She recently published a book of comedic essays and preteen diary entries, "My 1992 Diary", with Abrams Books. Well, actually, there are many strange things in this fever-dream of a suburban satire: unruly children transformed into golden retrievers, underwear touted proudly as neck scarves, an entire population of adults wearing braces on straight teeth — but perhaps the most unsettling bit is just how familiar it all feels. With Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe, Beck Bennett, Neil Casey. 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The adaptation process allowed them to rework the short into a more streamlined feature-length screenplay. We built the character and the character arc around these tentpoles.” These included acting as if nothing had happened after an extraordinary event such as a scene when the two women realized they kissed the wrong husband. After college, they moved to New York where they experienced the culture shock of extreme directness first hand. In the Sundance comedy Greener Grass from the writing-directing team Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe’s, we are thrown into the perfect world of an … The pair eventually made the move to Los Angeles in 2015 where they fleshed out their idea into a web series. An example they cite is a scene where the couple is eating dinner at a restaurant and the waiter drops their food. Brace-faced smiles all around, and then further and further down the rabbit hole we go; in a town in which every mom drives a golf cart, every family stays within their color palette, and every friend seems just a little bit peeved at Jill for giving away baby Paige, nee Madison: "Why would you give your baby to Lisa, and not to me?" Writer-director-stars Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe's feature debut “Greener Grass” was made to find a cult following; it deserves one. Dawn and Jocelyn recently directed two episodes of TruTV’s “Adam Ruins Everything.” In 2017, they sold a television pilot to IFC. Please let us know who this gift will be given to. "Oh, we just bonded," explains Jill, "I've been her mom since birth. That’s just the tip of the gloriously weird iceberg that is the feature debut from writers-directors Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe, a hilariously demented, Stepford Wives-on-acid satire destined to be an instant cult classic. During their time in New York, DeBoer and Luebbe put together a sketch comedy team, where the origins of Greener Grass were formed. Jocelyn DeBoer is a talented and gorgeous American actress. Weird is the first word that comes to mind to describe “Greener Grass,” the suburban satire from co-directors/co-stars Dawn Luebbe and Jocelyn DeBoer. Here, a melodramatic spectacle is made of a children’s soccer game. Horror tropes are celebrated and subverted in, The suburban enclave of Lemoncurd — “a charming town full of charming people leading charming lives and eating charming food” — is surely home to many delightful residents, but only three of them really matter: a trio of Debras who, as the title of the bite-sized, With a release planned for this summer, we have the first trailer for, "What would happen in a horror movie now?". cries the excellent Mary Holland as the anguished, green-hued new divorcee, Kim Ann. 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Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe's Greener Grass take politeness to the absurd with two feuding soccer moms played by Jocelyn DeBoer (left) and Dawn Luebbe (right). “We used each of those things that became the tentpole for the feature. Meanwhile, a psycho yoga teacher killer is on the loose, Jill’s husband (Beck Bennett) has developed a curious taste for pool water, and Lisa is pregnant with a soccer ball. The name and address are required so we can send them a membership kit. After Lisa gushes about how adorable baby Madison is, Jill smiles, thinks for a second, and then gleefully offers to give her friend her baby. We talked about how we were going to shoot it as we wrote it.“, You must be logged in to post a comment We came from a world of extreme politeness and made sure to please those around us, without thinking what we really want,” recalled Luebbe. How Do Others See You?” Desa Larkin-Boutte On ‘Zora And Zizi’. Not rudeness, but people said exactly what was on their mind. 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