Six years after the breakout success of Little Miss Sunshine, husband and wife directorial team Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris return with the offbeat romantic comedy Ruby Sparks.
Growing up in the 1970's, young Augusten (Joseph Cross) was living a middle-class existence with an alcoholic father (Alec Baldwin) and a bipolar mother (Annette Bening), an unpublished poet with delusions of becoming famous.
Emmy-winning comedy writer-producer Diane English will make her feature directorial debut on a remake of the 1939 George Cukor film "The Women," a hip New York comedy about a tight-knit group of female friends dealing with friendship, divorce and betrayal.
SET IN 1951 AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF A HOLLYWOOD DIVIDED BY POLITICAL LOYALTIES AND PERSONAL BETRAYALS, THE STORY TELLS OF SUCCESSFUL MOVIE DIRECTOR DAVID MERRILL (ROBERT DENIRO), WHOSE SINGLE-MINDED FOCUS ON HIS WORK CAUSES HIM TO NEGLECT ALL OTHER ASPECTS OF HIS LIFE, INCLUDING HIS WIFE AND YOUNG SON.