Taglines: The cure for the common marriage.
It’s nine am. You’ve just dropped your kid off at school. Pick-up is at four. No one knows where you are, and no one needs you. So what now? Rachel is a quick-witted and lovable, yet tightly coiled, thirty-something steeped in the creative class of Los Angeles’s bohemian, affluent Silver Lake neighborhood. Everything looks just right – chic modernist home, successful husband, adorable child, and a hipster wardrobe. So why is she going out of her gourd with ennui?
Deadened by the stultifying realities of preschool auctions, a lackluster sex life, and career that’s gone kaput, Rachel visits a strip club to spice up her marriage and meets McKenna, a stripper whom she becomes obsessed with saving. She decides to adopt McKenna as her live-in nanny, and this bold move unleashes unimagined and colorful waves of change into her life and community.
Afternoon Delight is an American comedy-drama film written and directed by Jill Soloway. The film stars Kathryn Hahn, Juno Temple, Josh Radnor, and Jane Lynch.
The premise of “Afternoon Delight,” admittedly, does not sound terribly appealing: to spice up their sex life, a Silverlake couple goes for a night out at a gentleman’s club and subsequently take in a stripper in need of help. From that logline alone you can glean that their relatively buttoned-up sex lives will get a jolt of temporary excitement, the threat of infidelity will loom larger in their house and this will undoubtedly turn out to be a very big mistake for all of them. Unfortunately for those who may have skipped out on the film because of its broad premise, “Afternoon Delight” is one of the unexpected highlights of this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
Rachel (Kathryn Hahn) is a thirty-something wife and mother who seemingly has it all but can’t help but feel vaguely dissatisfied with her life. Her husband Jeff (Josh Radnor) works as an app developer and has provided his family with a very nice home in one of L.A.’s hippest neighborhoods. But since the arrival of their child a few years back, their sex life has begun to suffer.
Afternoon stars Kathryn Hahn, Juno Temple, Josh Radnor, Jessica St. Clair, Michaela Watkins, Josh Stamberg, John Kapelos, Keegan-Michael Key, Annie Mumolo, Suzy Nakamura, Noah Harpster, Eugene Cordero and Jane Lynch. The feature premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2013 and earned director Jill Soloway the directing award in the U.S. Dramatic Competition.
Afternoon Delight (2013)
Directed by: Jill Soloway
Starring: Kathryn Hahn, Juno Temple, Josh Radnor, Jessica St. Clair, Michaela Watkins, Josh Stamberg, John Kapelos, Keegan-Michael Key, Annie Mumolo, Suzy Nakamura, Noah Harpster, Eugene Cordero, Jane Lynch
Screenplay by: Jill Soloway
Production Design by: Adriana Serrano
Cinematography by: Jim Frohna
Film Editing by: Catherine Haight
Costume Design by: Marie Schley
Set Decoration by: Zander Fieschko, James C. Gentry, Lisa Son
Music by: Craig Wedren
MPAA Rating: R for strong sometimes graphic sexual content, language and some drug use.
Studio: The Film Arcade
Release Date: August 30, 2013
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