The Outside Story Movie Storyline. After many acclaimed supporting roles, Brian Tyree Henry (Atlanta, If Beale Street Could Talk, The Eternals) takes on his first big screen lead role as Charles, an introverted video editor, trying to recover from a broken heart. Perceiving a betrayal of trust as a sign his girlfriend Isha (Sonequa Martin-Green, Star Trek: Discovery) is leaving him, Charles preemptively blows up his relationship and sequesters himself at home (before it was cool).
The fates don’t comply and Charles accidentally locks himself out of his apartment. Stumbling into a life-changing odyssey up, down, around and above his block, Charles meets a world of previously avoided neighbors played by Sunita Mani (G.L.O.W, Mr. Robot), Olivia Edward (Better Things), Asia Kate Dillon (Billions, John Wick 3), Maria Dizzia (Orange is the New Black) and Michael Cyril Creighton (The Post, Spot- light) among others.
In a timely story about not taking the world outside for granted, Charles is forced to re-evaluate the choices he’s made when he sees his life in parallel with the people around him. From the widow next door, to the curious swingers up- stairs, to the piano prodigy hiding out on the roof, Charles moves from one neck-snap- ping tableau to the next, disrupting and being disrupted in the process. With no shoes, no money, a phone running low on battery and the stars aligned to keep him physically separated from his comfort zone, Charles discovers in The Outside Story we’ve all got issues and it never helps to keep them on lockdown inside.
The Outside Story is an 2020 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Casimir Nozkowski. It stars Brian Tyree Henry, Sunita Mani, Sonequa Martin-Green, Olivia Edward, Asia Kate Dillon, Maria Dizzia, and Rebecca Naomi Jones.
Khe Outside Story was scheduled to have its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 18, 2020. However, the festival was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It had its world premiere at Rooftop Films on August 1, 2020. In February 2021, Samuel Goldwyn Films acquired U.S. distribution rights to the film, and set it for an April 30, 2021, release.
The Outside Story (2021)
Directed by: Casimir Nozkowski
Starring: Brian Tyree Henry, Sonequa Martin-Green, Sunita Mani, Olivia Edward, Asia Kate Dillon, Maria Dizzia, Lynda Gravatt, Michael Cyril Creighton, Hannah Bos, Rebecca Naomi Jones
Screenplay by: Casimir Nozkowski
Production Design by: Estee Braverman
Cinematography by: Zelmira Gainza
Film Editing by: Eyal Dimant
Costume Design by: Evren Catlin
Set Decoration by: Lee Balot
Music by: Alexander Trimpe
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Samuel Goldwyn Films
Release Date: August 1, 2020 (Rooftop Films), April 30, 2021 (United States)
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