Grasshopper Film released the trailer for the indie film drama Fourteen directed by Dan Sallitt, and starring Tallie Medel and Norma Kuhling that world premiered at the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival. The film which also stars Lorelei Romani, C. Mason Wells, Dylan McCormick, and Kolyn Brown will virtually open on May 15th on Grasshopper’s new virtual cinema.
Mara and Jo, in their twenties, have been close friends since middle school. Jo, the more outgoing figure, is a social worker who runs through a series of brief but intense relationships. Mara, a less splashy personality than Jo, bounces among teacher aide jobs while trying to land a position in elementary education, and writes fiction in her spare time. She too has a transient romantic life, though she seems to settle down after meeting Adam, a mild-mannered software developer. It soon becomes apparent that Jo, despite her intellectual gifts, is unreliable in her professional life, losing and acquiring jobs at a troubling rate. Substance abuse may be responsible for Jo’s instability… but some observers suspect a deeper problem. Over the course of a decade, the more stable Mara sometimes tries to help, sometimes backs away to preserve herself, but never leaves behind her powerful childhood connection with Jo.