F. Murray Abraham, Caroline Aaron, Noam Ash & Charlie Barnett Board ‘Bookends’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus, The White Lotus), Caroline Aaron (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, 21 Jump Street), Noam Ash (The Other Two), and Charlie Barnett (Russian Doll, The Acolyte) are set for 5x Media‘s Bookends from filmmaker Mike Doyle.
The movie, off a screenplay by Ash, follows Nate (Ash), an excitable millennial novelist, who is forced to leave his fabulous city life behind and move in with his grandparents after a bad breakup.
But when his Holocaust-surviving grandfather, Saul (Abraham), shows signs of cognitive decline and his grandmother, Miriam (Aaron), refuses to acknowledge her husband’s early signs of dementia, Nate finds himself torn between his desire to escape retirement community life, family responsibilities, and an unexpected romance with his grandparents’ doctor (Barnett).
The movie is based on Ash’s own experience living with his grandparents, and was developed in conjunction with the Maimonides Fund. “Bookends is a coming-of-age story deftly blended with complex end-of-life issues.
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