Life Partners
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| Directed by | Susanna Fogel |
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| Music by | Eric D. Johnson |
| Cinematography | Brian Burgoyne |
| Edited by | Kiran Pallegadda |
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| Distributed by | Magnolia Pictures |
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93 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $8,265 |
Life Partners is a 2014 American comedy film directed by Susanna Fogel and co-written with Joni Lefkowitz. It is Fogel's feature film directorial debut. The film stars are Leighton Meester, Gillian Jacobs, Adam Brody, Greer Grammer, Gabourey Sidibe, and Julie White. The film premiered on April 18, 2014 at the Tribeca Film Festival in the Spotlight section. The film was released on November 6, 2014 on demand platforms, and in select theaters on December 5, 2014.
The comedy is about a co-dependent friendship between two very different girls—straight type-A Paige (Jacobs) and lesbian slacker Sasha (Meester)—All is fine until Paige meets Tim (Brody), a young and charming doctor. As the relationship heats up, Paige and Sasha have to learn how to work Tim into their friendship.
Susanna Fogel and Joni Lefkowitz met in 2002 at a sketch comedy writing class and became friends. Joni Lefkowitz and Susanna Fogel both starred in the 2008 web series Joni & Susanna.
The film is an adaptation of the play Life Partners, written by Lefkowitz and Fogel based on their friendship and similar to the one depicted in Walking and Talking by Nicole Holofcener. In 2011, the play, starring Amanda Walsh and Shannon Woodward, was created and premiered as part of one act play series Unscreened, which develops and produces world-premiere short plays by some of Hollywood’s fastest-rising writers and featuring multi-star casts. In the aftermath of its success, producer Jordana Mallick approached the pair to consider adapting the play into a feature.
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