Damsels in Distress
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| Directed by | Whit Stillman |
| Produced by | Martin Shafer Liz Glotzer |
| Written by | Whit Stillman |
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Greta Gerwig Adam Brody Analeigh Tipton Megalyn Echikunwoke Carrie MacLemore Hugo Becker Ryan Metcalf |
| Music by | Mark Suozzo |
| Cinematography | Doug Emmett |
| Edited by | Andrew Hafitz |
| Distributed by | Sony Pictures Classics |
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99 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3,000,000 |
| Box office | $1,220,699 |
Damsels in Distress (original title: Violet Wister's Damsels in Distress and Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress) is an American comedy film written and directed by Whit Stillman and starring Greta Gerwig, Adam Brody, and Analeigh Tipton. It is set at a United States East Coast university. First screened at the 68th Venice International Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival, the film opened in New York and Los Angeles on April 6, 2012.
Newly transferred college student Lily becomes friends with Violet, Heather and Rose, a clique who run the campus' suicide prevention centre. Over the course of the film, the four girls date less attractive men in order to help the men's confidence; they try to clean up the "unhygenic" Doar Dorm; they clash with the editor of the campus newspaper The Daily Complainer who wants to close down the "elitist" Roman letters fraternities; and finally they try and start a new dance craze, called The Sambola!
The film was Stillman's first produced feature since The Last Days of Disco. In August 1998 he had moved from New York to Paris with his wife and two daughters. In that time he wrote a novelisation of The Last Days of Disco plus several original film scripts which were not made, including one set in Jamaica in the 1960s. He resolved to make a lower budgeted film in the style of his debut, Metropolitan. In 2006 he met with Liz Glotzer and Mart Shafter at Castle Rock Entertainment, who had financed his second and third films. Shafer:
Whit said, ‘I want to write a movie about four girls in a dorm who are trying to keep things civil in an uncivil world.’ It took him a year to write 23 pages. Six months later, a few more dribbled in. He just doesn’t work very fast. Finally we had a draft. When we started production he said, ‘I think 12 years is the right amount of time between movies.’
Castle Rock ended up providing most of the $3 million budget.
The movie was filmed on location in New York City on Staten Island at the Sailors' Snug Harbor Cultural Center.
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