Director
Robin Swicord
Starring
Bryan Cranston, Jennifer Garner
Certificate
12A
Run Time
106 mins
Release Year
2016
Country of Origin
USA
Language
English
Director of Photography: Andrei Bowden Schwartz
Editor: Matt Maddox
Produced by: Julie Lynn, Bonnie Curtis
Music: Aaron Zigman
Screenplay by: Robin Swicord
Production Designer: Jeannine Oppewall
Sound Production: Charles Maynes
Director Bio
Robin Swicord
P&I - Director Bio
Robin Swicord is primarily known for her work as a screenwriter for Memoirs Of A Geisha (2005), Little Women (1994), Matilda (1996), and the cult comedy Shag (1989). In 2009, Swicord received an Oscar nomination for her contribution to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008). She made her feature-directing debut with The Jane Austen Book Club (2007), for which Swicord also wrote the screenplay adaptation.
Wakefield
Part of the American Dreams Strand
Bryan Cranston is superb as successful lawyer and family man Howard Wakefield who, one evening, follows his odd but overwhelming impulse to walk away from his life. As he stands in his suburban driveway he makes the snap decision to hide away in the attic of his two-car garage and spend his time observing his wife Diana (Jennifer Garner) and his children. Based on a short story by E.L. Doctorow, the film is driven by Cranston’s amazing performance as a cruel, selfish, funny and rather unforgivable - but ultimately absorbing - man. [12A]