JACK GOES BOATING
When JACK GOES BOATING debuted at Sundance earlier this year, the audience gave it a standing ovation. It’s easy to see why. As a story that’s really three stories in one, JACK GOES BOATING lifts you up and sends you way back down again with its sweeping narrative of two friends and two sets of lovers, one old and doomed and one fresh and new. It starts with Jack, played by Philip Seymour-Hoffman, who also makes his directorial debut with a script based on Robert Gloudini’s play of the same name, which Hoffman also starred in. Jack’s friend Clyde (John Ortiz) sets him up with Connie (Amy Ryan), his wife’s co-worker. Connie is a timid, delicate, mouse of a woman, with insecurities so obvious they make her the victim of multiple instances of sexual harassment, even assault. She’s one of those women, coming upon middle-age, still unsure of who they are, making her an eligible candidate for Jack, who drives a limo and lives in his uncle’s basement.
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