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Downtown Owl is a 2023 American comedy drama film directed by Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater, in their directorial debuts, from a screenplay by Linklater. It is based on the 2008 novel by Chuck Klosterman.
Downtown Owl: Directed by Hamish Linklater, Lily Rabe. With Lily Rabe, Ed Harris, Vanessa Hudgens, August Blanco. Based on the novel by Chuck Klosterman, Downtown Owl is a sparkle dark Reagan Era comedy set in the fictional town of Owl, North Dakota in the leading days up to the region's blizzard in Minnesota's century.
- (1.6K)
- Drama
- Hamish Linklater, Lily Rabe
- 2024-04-23
Jun 8, 2023 · ‘Downtown Owl’ Review: Lily Rabe Is the Radiant Hot-Mess Center of an Affecting Small-Town Tragicomedy. Offscreen partners Rabe and Hamish Linklater share directing duties on an...
Jun 8, 2023 · ‘Downtown Owl’ Review: Lily Rabe Turns Anti-Hero in Puzzling Chuck Klosterman Adaptation. Tribeca: The actress also co-directs the film — a curious but occasionally compelling spin on the...
Apr 24, 2024 · Based on the eponymous Chuck Klosterman novel and co-directed by real-life partners and creative collaborators Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater, Downtown Owl squares up in the familiar space of small-town, character-driven dramedy, forecasting its climax in the opening sequence — a blizzard’s a-comin’, metaphor firmly in place.
The set-up of the script (penned by Linklater, often with perplexing dialogue) is promising enough, introducing us to the fictional town of Owl, North Dakota (Klosterman’s home state) through the...
Apr 24, 2024 · Written by Hamish Linklater and novelist Chuck Klosterman, Downtown Owl follows Julia (Lily Rabe), a woman who thinks there is something more to life than what she has experienced, so she decides to make a temporary move to Owl, North Dakota, in 1983 and become a teacher.
