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* Average dramatic feature budget is $1.7 million. Average documentary feature budget is $400,000. Budget figures based on interviews with producers and sales agents.
* Estimate based on blended average of 100 people working on each feature-length film through all phases of production and post-production.
THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT
Director: Lisa Cholodenko
Key Cast: Julianne Moore, Annette Benning, Mark Raffulo
Two children conceived by artificial insemination decide to bring their father into their family life.
THE DETAILS
Director: Jacob Aaron Estes
Key Cast: Toby Maguire, Elizabeth Banks, Laura Linney
When a family of raccoons discover worms living underneath the sod in Jeff and Nealy's backyard, this pest problem begins a darkly comic and wild chain reaction of domestic tension, infidelity and murder.
OUR IDIOT BROTHER
Director: Paul Rudd
Key Cast: Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel A comedy centered on an idealist who barges into the lives of his three sisters.
THE SESSIONS
Director: Ben Lewin
Key Cast: John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy
A man in an iron lung who wishes to lose his virginity contacts a professional sex surrogate with the help of his therapist and priest.
THE WAY WAY BACK
Director: Nat Faxon and Jim Rash
Key Cast: Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Allison Janney
Shy 14-year-old Duncan goes on summer vacation with his mother, her overbearing boyfriend, and her boyfriend's daughter. Having a rough time fitting in, Duncan finds an unexpected friend in Owen, manager of the Water Wizz water park.
DON JON
Director: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Key Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore
A New Jersey guy dedicated to his family, friends, and church, develops unrealistic expectations from watching porn and works to find happiness and intimacy with his potential true love.
*Still in release.
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Howl
Director: Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
Key Cast: James Franco, Todd Rotondi, Jon Prescott
As Allen Ginsberg talks about his life and art, his most famous poem is illustrated in animation while the obscenity trial of the work is dramatized.
Project Nim
Director: James Marsh
Key Cast: Nim Chimpsky, Stephanie LaFarge, Herbert Terrace Tells the story of a chimpanzee taken from its mother at birth and raised like a human child by a family in a brownstone on the upper West Side in the 1970s.
Searching for Sugar Man
Director: Malik Bendjelloul
Key Cast: Rodriguez, Stephen Segerman, Dennis Coffey
Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock 'n' roller, Rodriguez.
Hello I Must Be Going
Director: Todd Louiso
Key Cast: Melanie Lynskey, Christopher Abbott, Blythe Danner
Circumstances force a young divorcée to move back in with her parents in suburban Connecticut, where an affair with a younger guy rejuvenates her passion for life.
The Queen Of Versailles
Director: : Lauren Greenfield
Key Cast: Lorraine Barrett, June Downs, Phillip Froehlich
A documentary that follows a billionaire couple as they begin construction on a mansion inspired by Versailles
Wish You Were Here
Director: Kieran Darcy-Smith
Key Cast: Joel Edgerton, Teresa Palmer, Felicity Price
Four friends lose themselves in a carefree South-East Asian holiday. Only three come back
Who Is Dayani Cristal
Director: Marc Silver
Key Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal
An anonymous body in the Arizona desert sparks the beginning of a real-life human drama. The search for identity leads us back across a continent to seek out the people left behind and the meaning of a mysterious tattoo.
Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus
Director: Sebastián Silva
Key Cast: Michael Cera, Gaby Hoffman, Juan Andrés Silva
As Jamie travels in Chile, he invites an eccentric woman to join his group's quest to score a fabled hallucinogen, a move that finds him at odds with his new companion, until they drink the magic brew on a beach at the edge of the desert.
Twenty Feet From Stardom
Director: Morgan Neville
Key Cast: : Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer
Backup singers live in a world that lies just beyond the spotlight. Their voices bring harmony to the biggest bands in popular music, but we've had no idea who these singers are or what lives they lead, until now.
May In The Summer
Director: Cherien Dabis
Key Cast: Hiam Abbass, James Garson Chick, Cherien Dabis
High off the success of her first book and planning to marry Ziad, her sensible, stable and studious fiance, May Brennan has it all. At least that's what she'd like people to believe.
Whiplash
Director: Damien Chazelle
Key Cast: Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Melissa Benoist
A promising young drummer enrolls at a cutthroat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.
*Data is based on the Sundance Institute's spend to produce the festival and on non-resident spending during the festival.