My Dead Friend Zoe is a dark comedy drama that follows the journey of Merit (Sonequa Martin-Green), a U.S. Army Afghanistan veteran who is at odds with her family thanks to the presence of Zoe (Natalie Morales), her dead best friend from the Army.
Despite the persistence of her VA group counselor (Morgan Freeman), the tough love of her mother (Gloria Reuben) and the levity of an unexpected love interest, Merit’s cozy-dysfunctional friendship with Zoe keeps the duo insulated from the world.
That is until Merit’s estranged grandfather (Ed Harris) — holed up at the family’s ancestral lake house — begins to lose his way and needs the one thing he refuses… help. At its core, this is a buddy film about a complicated friendship, a divided family, and the complex ways in which we process grief.
My Dead Friend Zoe is a 2024 American war comedy-drama film written by Kyle Hausmann-Stokes and A. J. Bermudez, directed by Hausmann-Stokes and starring Sonequa Martin-Green, Natalie Morales, Ed Harris, Morgan Freeman, Gloria Reuben and Utkarsh Ambudkar. It is based on Hausmann-Stokes’s short film Merit x Zoe. It is also Hausmann-Stokes’s feature directorial debut. It premiered at South by Southwest on March 9, 2024, where it won the Audience Award, and was theatrically released in the United States on November 1, 2024, by Briarcliff Entertainment.
My Dead Friend Zoe (2024)
Directed by: Kyle Hausmann-Stokes
Starring: Sonequa Martin-Green, Natalie Morales, Ed Harris, Morgan Freeman, Gloria Reuben, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Thom Tran, Drew Rausch, Drew Rausch, James Bane, Assia Lau’ren, Alicia Borja
Screenplay by: Kyle Hausmann-Stokes, A. J. Bermudez
Production Design by: Whit Vogel
Cinematography by: Matt Sakatani Roe
Film Editing by: Ali Greer
Costume Design by: Dionne Barens
Set Decoration by: Mandy Lehman
Art Direction by: Katherine Isom
Music by: Dan Romer
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Briarcliff Entertainment
Release Date: March 9, 2024 (SXSW), November 1, 2024 (United States)
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