There's no dialogue for the scene when the brothers are watching television. "There are entire scenes where it is all improvised. "I'm trying to approach a level of realism in the film that in some scenes we really achieved," Lerner said. in the Schwartz Center's Film Forum with Donald Fredericksen, director of undergraduate studies in Theatre, Film and Dance. He also participates in a Q&A session open to the public, Sept. in Willard Straight Theatre, followed by discussion with the audience. Lerner will present "Girlfriend" at Cornell Cinema Sept. "What he wants in the film is not really that different from what any human being desires, and I'm using everything he is, his favorite patterns of speech. Sneider is not a trained actor but came to the role "without having to act much," Lerner said. He wrote a screenplay as a coming-of-age story about a young man with Down syndrome who wants to be in love.įor the film, "Girlfriend," Lerner cast his high school friend Evan Sneider, who has Down syndrome, in the lead role, alongside actors Shannon Woodward, Jackson Rathbone and Amanda Plummer. For his first feature film, writer-director Justin Lerner '02 wanted to make a love story from an unconventional angle.
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