Maine-based rom-com hits theaters in time for Valentine’s Day
Tumbledown, from a Portland filmmaking duo, stars Jason Sudeikis and Rebecca Hall.
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Tumbledown, a romantic comedy starring Jason Sudeikis (Horrible Bosses) and Rebecca Hall (The Town), hits theaters this Friday—perfect timing for a classic dinner-and-a-movie Valentine’s date.
Married filmmakers Desi Van Til and Sean Mewshaw, of Portland, Maine, set the film in Van Til’s hometown of Farmington, the Portland Press Herald reports.
The rom-com features Hall as a young widow of a singer-songwriter, living with friends and family in her tiny New England town as she copes with her loss. Sudeikis plays a writer who comes to the area to research Hall’s dead husband for a book. Romance, obviously, ensues.
The movie was filmed in Massachusetts last year and was the first production to use the New England Studios facility in Devans (and they filmed in the town, as well), according to Boston magazine. It was also filmed in Ayer, Concord, Groton, Princeton, Shirley, Westford, Westminster, and Worcester.
The film’s title comes from the nearby Tumbledown Mountain in Maine. Production designer Jane Ann Stewart (of The Descendants and About Schmidt) studied Farmington to specifically transform Concord into the small (very small, at a population of about 7,700) town, according to the Herald.
The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April and opened with limited screenings in Los Angeles and New York earlier this month. This weekend marks the movie’s premiere nationwide, and the filmmakers will attend several screenings in their home state.
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