EXCLUSIVE: Director Adam Volerich is poised to add to the canon of Christmas cinema with Drink and Be Merry, an indie dramedy starring Yellowstone‘s Jefferson White, which has wrapped production in New York.
Others in the cast of the film, marking Volerich’s feature debut, include Siobhan Fallon Hogan (SNL), Sophie Zucker (Dickinson), Griffin Newman (The Tick), Delaney Williams (The Wire), Billy Smith (The Departed), Brian Anthony Wilson (The Wire), Pamela Jayne Morgan (The Holdovers), Shawn Christensen (Curfew), Casey Wortmann (FBI: Most Wanted) and Wharton Tract.
Pic is set at a struggling New York dive bar in the days leading up to Christmas, 2019. Its protagonist, Chet (White), is a beleaguered bartender in a state of extended arrested development, who must balance taking care of his misanthropic, aging regulars — who have nowhere else to go, and rely on him for far more than pouring drinks — with his naive desires to muster some Christmas spirit.
Leo Winters (Hold to Dash) wrote the script, and the project is jointly produced by Brenden Hubbard’s Bearly There Media and Volerich’s Misprint Film.
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