Starring in a movie your dad is directing, your brother is the
cinematographer on and your mom is costarring in sounds a little
daunting, no? "It's really, really easy," Mary Stuart Masterson
tells Entertainment Weekly. The Masterson family movie is
Intervention, an indie about staging an intervention on a hard-
drinking playwright, with director/dad Peter Masterson, director of
photography/bro Peter Masterson Jr. and actress/mom Carlin
Glynn. "Every now and then," she laughs, "my brother calls out to my
dad, and he says 'Pete!' and Dad doesn't respond, so he says 'DA-
AD!' and he turns around…I feel like we're the Flying Wallendas,"
she told EW. "We gotta take it on the road, it's a little bit
ridiculous." Flying Wallendas? (Source: Hollywood.com)

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Production Report: "Intervention"

Leopold De Angeli is a talented playwright, but like many scribes he
fancies the drink a little too much. In the hopes of saving
Leopold's life, his theater friends come together to stage an
intervention for him. Based on the real-life intervention of an
avant-garde playwright 12 years ago, screenwriter Jo Ann Tedesco,
who was present at the intervention, adapts the play she wrote of
the event.

Director Peter Masterson ("The Trip to Bountiful") has assembled a
cast and crew that are veterans of the stage and screen, including
Gary Swanson as Leopold. In doing so Masterson hopes to create a
setting that will give the audience a feeling of being at the
intervention. "Peter wanted it like '12 Angry Men.' He wanted to
heighten the drama," says Tedesco. "But because they are all show
business types it's also funny because they are all dramatic and
they all have wit, the piece is amusing leading into heightened
drama."

Currently finishing the 12-day shoot in Manhattan, for many in the
cast coming to the set is a daily family reunion. Masterson's son,
Peter Masterson, Jr. is the DP, his daughter Mary Stuart Masterson
stars along with his wife Carlin Glynn. Olympia Dukakis also stars
along with daughter Christina Zorich.

Shot on 35mm, it's being produced by Pompeian Pictures and budgeted
at under $1 million. Ron Curtis, Jr., J. Clayton and Gary Swanson
are the producers. Other cast includes Lainie Kazan ("My Big Fat
Greek Wedding"), Robert Walden, David Margulies, Mario Macaluso, and
Hazelle Goodman. (Source: indieWIRE)


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