Carrie Coon Boards Postpartum Comedy ‘Another Happy Day’; Natasha Leggero Among New Additions To Action Comedy ‘The Unexpecteds’ – Film Briefs
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Carrie Coon (The Gilded Age) is set to appear opposite Lauren Lapkus in Another Happy Day, a postpartum depression comedy marking the feature debut of writer-director Nora Fiffer, which wrapped production last summer in Chicago and will make its world premiere at the Vail Film Festival this Saturday, December 9th.
The film centers on Joanna (Lapkus), a “total nut” who is wearing new motherhood so awkwardly that she remarks candidly “I’m not really a mom, I just have a baby, you know?” This new mom is also an artist who isn’t making any art, and feels truly terrible at taking care of her newborn, as she stumbles through her days.
She can’t get her old job back, her old friends have moved on without her, her husband thinks he’s a better mother than she is, she’s terribly sleep deprived, and her baby won’t look at her.
On her desperate search for a friend, she tumbles into an unlikely bond with an estranged aunt-in-law she never knew. Part of an ensemble also including Jessie Holder Tourtellotte, Marilyn Dodds Frank and Jean Elie, Coon additionally exec produced the pic alongside Lapkus and Eugene Sun Park.
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