The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

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April 25, 2007, 11:14:28 AM
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Set in Pittsburgh in the early eighties, the story chronicles the last true summer of Art Bechstein's youth. Stuck in a dead-end job working for his eccentric sometime girlfriend Phlox, and forced into an endless series of airless dinners with his mobster father, Art begins to believe that perhaps he doesn't even exist at all...

he Mysteries of Pittsburgh stars Jon Foster as "Art", Peter Sarsgaard as "Cleveland", Sienna Miller as "Jane", Nick Nolte as "Joe" and Mena Suvari as "Phlox".

http://www.mysteriesofpittsburgh.com/

Based on the Michael Chabon novel.
\"I wanted to make a film for kids, something that would present them with a kind of elementary morality. Because nowadays nobody bothers to tell those kids, \'Hey, this is right and this is wrong\'.\"
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March 10, 2009, 08:26:50 PM
Trailer here.
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March 11, 2009, 12:10:24 PM
How had I completely missed this? MoP is the one Chabon novel I've never read, and now I'm gonna have to get it quick. Which is fine. I love Mena Suvari. And she seems to flash a lot in this. Cool.
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Redlum

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March 11, 2009, 01:20:05 PM
Under-whelming trailer here: http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809761596/video/12413241/

Given that this has taken so long to get any kind of distribution I doubt this is actually any good. Maybe they just decided to market it to the OC/One Tree Hill/Dawsons crowd? I hate to be a 'in the book' whiner but...the book was a lot less dramatic than this trailer.

Peter Sarsgaard and Mena Suvaris knicker flashing may save it (note: I'm not suggesting that Peter Sarsgaard will be flashing his knickers).
\"I wanted to make a film for kids, something that would present them with a kind of elementary morality. Because nowadays nobody bothers to tell those kids, \'Hey, this is right and this is wrong\'.\"
  -  George Lucas

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March 11, 2009, 01:55:11 PM
MENA!!!! Yippee! Okay, I'm calm... but this sounds intriguing. I really enjoy emotional films set in the 80's
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