Sunday (film)

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Sunday
Directed by	Jonathan Nossiter
Written by	James Lasdun Jonathan Nossiter
Starring	David Suchet Lisa Harrow
Release date(s)	January, 1997 (premiere at Sundance) 22 August 1997 (USA)
Running time	91 min.
Country	USA
Language	English
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Sunday is a 1996 independent film. Set in Queens, a borough of New York City, it is a dark comedy about an unemployed, homeless IBM functionary mistaken by an ageing actress for a famous film director. The film was directed by Jonathan Nossiter. The screenplay is an adaptation by Nossiter and James Lasdun or Lasdun's own short story "Ate, Memos or the Miracle" (published in his collection of stories, Three Evenings). The two would later collaborate again on Signs & Wonders.

Starring David Suchet (who reportedly added 40 pounds for his role)^{[citation needed]}, as well as Lisa Harrow and Jared Harris, it was shot on location in Queens and in an active homeless shelter, blending actors and non-actors.

[edit] Awards

The film won the 1997 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury prize for Best Film and Best Screenplay. It also won the Deauville Film Festival Grand Prize for Best Film and its International Critics' prize. It marked Nossiter's debut at Cannes in the "Un Certain Regard" section (his 2004 Mondovino was in competition for the Palme d'Or) and was also included in The Museum of Modern Art's "New Directors, New Films" series.