Director James Sunshine found a novel way to get round the challenges of shooting a movie in Los Angeles during the COVID-19 era.
Sunshine set his dark comedy thriller, Safer at Home: The Coronavirus Movie, during the pandemic to weave social distancing and quarantine orders into the storyline. "Since the plot of the film is literally about the pandemic, we were able to naturally integrate paranoia and social distancing into the story itself," the writer/director said of the surrealistic satire about a retired zookeeper, played by John Lehr, who is kidnapped by a crazed economist (Joseph Reitman) during the COVID-19 lockdown.
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