Matthew Saville A Month of Sundays

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Matthew Saville A Month of Sundays

Cast: Anthony LaPaglia, Julia Blake, John Clarke, Justin Clarke
Director: Matthew Saville
Running Time: 190 minutes

Synopsis: Real estate agent, Frank Mollard, won't admit it, but he can't move on. Divorced but still attached, he can't sell a house in a property boom - much less connect with his teenage son. One night Frank gets a phone call from his mother. Nothing out of the ordinary. Apart from the fact that she died a year ago.

A Month of Sundays is about parents, children, regrets, mourning, moments of joy, houses, homes, love, work, television, Shakespeare and jazz fusion: about ordinary people and improbable salvation.

Because everyone deserves a second chance.
Even a real estate agent.

A Month of Sundays
Release Date: April 28th, 2016

Director's Note

A Month of Sundays is about legacies. We would all like to leave a mark, leave the world a little better than how we found it. People like Frank Mollard would find that difficult, which is possibly why he finds himself a real estate agent. Instead, he gives legacy agency.

Early in proceedings, when I was first pitching the script, my twenty five words or less was; 'a real estate agent's life takes a turn for the better when he receives a phone call from his dead mother".

Someone once asked me; 'So, is this a ghost story?"

It isn't. But later, I realised that it is. I realised that Frank Mollard - my protagonist, my real estate agent – is, in fact, a ghost. A A Month of Sundays is, then, probably, about a ghost coming back to the world. Frank Mollard, at the beginning of the film, isn't in the world. He is by the end. At the end of the film, he is standing on a 'welcome" mat.

Or, put another way, the film traces the journey of a middle aged, divorced salesman realising that he can, if he tries, leave a legacy. He can, if he cares, be kind. He can, if he wants to, honour other peoples' need to make a mark, here. He can, if he holds fast, help make homes.

And that, in my opinion, is a real estate agent.

- Matthew Saville, July 2015

A Month of Sundays
Release Date: April 28th, 2016