Asleep in My Palm

Asleep in My Palm (2024)

It tells the story of a man and the daughter he's raising off the grid on the outskirts of an elite liberal arts college in northeastern Ohio.

Date of release
2024-03-01
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 28m
Genres
Drama
Director
Henry Nelson

Casting

Interesting facts

Asleep in My Palm is a 2023 American drama film written and directed by Henry Nelson. The story follows Tom and Beth Anne, a homeless father and his daughter living near a college in rural Ohio, as they try to survive the winter. Jared Abrahamson, Grant Harvey, Gus Birney, and David Aaron Baker also star.

Production

Henry Nelson began writing Asleep in My Palm as he was about to graduate from Oberlin College. He was inspired by his love of the 2000 film Chuck & Buck (2000), whose main character he "really related to". He sought to write a film with a similar tone but "in a very different setting" before eventually developing it into a "whole other movie".

The Nelsons hired cinematographer Tatjana Krstevski based on the strength of her work on The Load (2018), a Serbian film that they found "extraordinary". Asleep in My Palm was "predominantly" shot using a 25 mm camera lens to communicate that "the camera was almost struggling to be in the room".

The film was officially announced in December 2021, with principal photography scheduled to begin in Oberlin, Ohio in late January 2022. Filming took place over 17 days near Oberlin College. In March 2022, it was confirmed that Chloë Kerwin, Grant Harvey, Gus Birney, and Jared Abrahamson also starred in the film, and that it had "recently wrapped production" in Oberlin. Asleep in My Palm was Kerwin's first film role.

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