For Ellen

For Ellen (2012)

After an overnight long-distance drive, Joby has a special meeting—with lawyers and his ex-wife. A struggling musician with the prerequisite tattoos, slimy hair, goatee, and his head firmly floating in the clouds, Joby hasn’t been around to be a dad. Now is his last chance to fight for shared custody of his daughter, Ellen.

Date of release
2012-02-12
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (50)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Drama
Director
So Yong Kim

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Ontario

For Ellen is a 2012 American drama film written, produced and directed by So Yong Kim. It stars Paul Dano, who also served as an executive producer. It is Kim's first English-language film.

Production

So Yong Kim called the film her "most personal" up to that date, saying “When I wrote the film, I was filled with doubts about my ability as a filmmaker, a loving partner and a decent mother to our daughter. I took all these emotions and tried to investigate what they meant to me.

Kim, who wanted to do something different compared to her first two films, which center on young girls, initially wrote the script centered on an Asian man in his sixties. Paul Dano, a friend of Kim's, read the script and decided he wanted to play the lead character. Kim said not much was changed from the original script and the filmmakers worked with what they already had written.

The film was shot in 18 days in Massena, New York.

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