2010 Sundance Film Festival : Lovers of Hate

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Lovers of Hate

Bryan Poyser 2010

Categories: U.S. Dramatic Competition, World Premiere

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Run time: 93 min. | U.S.A. | color

In this delicious tale of resentment, deceit, and sibling rivalry, two adult brothers, Rudy and Paul, represent failure and success. Younger brother Paul is a successful author who writes Harry Potter-like fantasy novels for children. The painful part is that Rudy, an aspiring writer, was Paul’s original childhood collaborator on the stories. The one thing they do have in common is their love for Diana. Although Rudy is married to Diana, their divorce is impending—and he currently lives out of his car. Ever the opportunist, Paul makes his move on Diana.

Director Bryan Poyser brilliantly executes an intricate game of cat and mouse in a ski lodge (incidentally, the film culminates in Park City, Utah). A testament to the actors and a tightly constructed script, Lovers of Hate juggles humor and despair and pushes situations and characters to extremes while remaining in complete control. There are no clear winners in this story, but it is one enjoyable, tragicomic ride.

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Bryan Poyser, Switchfilm
Phone: (512) 322-0145 x3204
Email: bryan@switchfilm.com

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time	event code	venue	calendar
5:15 PM Sun, Jan 24	LOVER24RE	Racquet Club	+ add to cal
2:30 PM Tue, Jan 26	LOVER26LA	Library Center Theatre	+ add to cal
10:30 PM Wed, Jan 27	LOVER27BN	Broadway Centre Cinemas IV	+ add to cal
12:15 PM Thu, Jan 28	LOVER28CD	Eccles Theatre	+ add to cal
8:30 AM Sat, Jan 30	LOVER30LM	Library Center Theatre	+ add to cal

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Cast & Crew

director	Bryan Poyser

screenwriter	Bryan Poyser
Cast	Chris Doubek, Heather Kafka, Alex Karpovsky, Zach Green
executive producer	Athina Rachel Tsangari, Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
producer	Megan Gilbride
composer	Kevin Bewersdorf
cinematographer	David Lowery
production designer	Caroline Karlen
coproducers	Morgan Coy, Adam Donaghey, Chris Ohlson

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Rated 3.25500022872918/5 Stars

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Rated 1.0/5 Stars my rating click to rate 1 2 3 4 5 superluminous 1:34 AM		A vicious film. The animosity the characters have towards each other is simply nasty for it's own sake.....The films production values are low, which should be fine, yet strangely for a no budget film they still seemed to try to craft it in a conventional way...they should have embraced the dogme / mumble vibe and gone all the way. They're just stuck bleakly somewhere in the middle....