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Guest Artist

Film

Guest Artist

4.7

1h 15m

2019

Synopsis

Joseph Harris, a legendary, but troubled playwright comes to small Michigan town at Christmastime to mount his latest play. Greeting the cynical New Yorker is a young, aspiring writer who challenges his hero to be the icon he’d idolized. However, Harris wants no part of Michigan, small towns and he has no interest in being the young man’s hero. The young man must face his hero and navigate the relationship between heroes, reality and hope.

Director

Timothy Busfield

Trailer

Drama

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Cast & Crew

Jeff Daniels

Jeff Daniels

as Joseph Harris

Thomas Macias

as Kenneth Waters

Richard McWilliams

Richard McWilliams

as Franz

Erika Slezak

as Helen

McKara Bechler

as Hope

Dan Johnson

as Dan

Lynch R. Travis

Lynch R. Travis

as Larry (as Lynch Travis)

Ruth Crawford

Ruth Crawford

as Mary

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