Roadside Attractions will release Gigi & Nate, the inspiring drama film, based on true events, starring Charlie Rowe, Oscar® winner Marcia Gay Harden, and Jim Belushi.

Joining Rowe (Rocketman, Never Let Me Go), Harden (Mystic River, Into the Wild, Pollock), and Belushi (Red Heat, K-9, Retroactive), is three-time Oscar® nominee Diane Ladd (Rambling Rose, Wild at Heart, China Town), Josephine Langford (After, Moxie), Zoe Colletti (Annie, A Boy Called Christmas), Hannah Riley (Paper Towns, “Better Things”), Sasha Compère (Single Drunk Female, Love Life), Olly Sholotan (Bel-Air), Emilio Garcia-Sanchez (The Society), and Mishel Prada (Riverdale, Vida).

Also making her scene-stealing big-screen debut in the titular role of a service animal “Gigi,” is Allie, a capuchin monkey, who may be the smallest cast member, but audiences will discover her enormous heart.

Directed by BAFTA® winning director Nick Hamm (Driven, The Journey), the film opens in theaters on September 2nd, 2022

Gigi & Nate is the story of Nate Gibson, a young man whose life is turned upside down after he suffers a near-fatal illness and is left a quadriplegic. Moving forward seems near impossible until he meets his unlikely service animal, Gigi – a curious and intelligent capuchin monkey. Although she is trained to assist Nate with his basic needs, Gigi helps Nate find what he needs most of all: hope.

“Gigi & Nate is a unique, stranger than fiction story that highlights the truths we see every day”, Nick Hamm said,“ the sacrifices we make to support our loved ones, the emotional bond between human and animal that transforms our lives, and how either, but particularly both, give us the strength to persevere.”