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Creative Screenwriting spoke with Strouse about character-driven movies, basing a script on real-life events, and what makes a good story. Note that this article contains spoilers . Richard Jenkins as Don Hollar, Sharlto Copley as Ron Hollar and John Krasinski as John Hollar in The Hollars .
Is The Hollars an original, breathtaking dramedy that says anything new about middle-class suburbia and family? No.
Aspiring New York City artist, John Hollar returns to his Middle America hometown on the eve of his mother’s brain surgery. Joined by his girlfriend, eight months pregnant with their first child, John is forced to navigate the crazy world he left behind.
Aug 26, 2016 · He’s back in the director’s chair for The Hollars, an ensemble dramedy that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, in which he plays John Hollar, a New York graphic artist who...
Aug 26, 2016 · Comedy. 105 minutes ‧ PG-13 ‧ 2016. Matt Zoller Seitz. August 26, 2016. 6 min read. “The Hollars” is just good enough to make you wish that it were better. John Krasinski, longtime costar of “The Office,” directed this modestly budgeted family drama; the writer is James C. Strouse (“ Lonesome Jim,” “The Winning Season”), who ...
John Hollar (Krasinski), a struggling graphic novelist living in New York City, is forced to come back to his hometown after his mother Sally (Margo Martindale) has a brain tumor, and joins his father Don (Richard Jenkins) and brother Ron (Sharlto Copley) to stay by her side.
While Strouse's script is riddled with worn out plot threads and paint-by-numbers familiarity, there's something to be said for his ability to infuse the story and its characters with richness and humanity in the midst of it all.
