Upcoming indie comedy-drama Free Samples isn’t a film I knew much about beyond the name until just watching the trailer a moment ago. Having done that, I’m now already hoping it’ll get picked up for distribution soon.
The film is making its debut at the Tribeca Film Festival next month, and with a cast including Jess Weixler (Teeth*) in the lead, supported by Jesse Eisenberg (Zombieland) and Jason Ritter (Parenthood), I’m really hoping it will turn out as good as this trailer looks.
“Jillian is having a bad day. She’s got a raging hangover, she’s starting to think dropping out of Stanford Law to become an artist wasn’t the best career move, and things are weird with her faraway fiancé. Can spending the day parked in an ice cream truck doling out samples—and a good dose of sass—to oddball Angelenos shake her out of her quarter-life crisis? Jess Weixler, Jesse Eisenberg, and Jason Ritter star in this quirky comedy.”
Jay Gammill is making his feature directorial debut, directing from a script by Jim Beggarly (whose other writing credit, The Kitchen, is in post-production and stars Laura Prepon and Bryan Greenberg).
It looks like Eisenberg is playing a straight-up nice guy here, and it’s not that often we get to see him in a role like that, so if you’re a fan of his, this is one to watch out for for that reason alone.
Free Samples will be playing at Tribeca on 20th, 21st, 24th, and 26th April, so if you’re going to the festival, it looks like this is one you should look into. Here’s to hoping that we’ll be hearing more about the project (and with a bit of luck, news that it’s got picked up for UK distribution too) in the near future. For now, the brilliant first trailer, followed by the first poster, and then images (which you can click to enlarge). The unhappy customer at the end of the trailer is just excellent.
*Admittedly, Teeth is quite possibly my least favourite film ever. But that’s entirely to do with the script and plot rather than Weixler’s acting abilities, and she looks terrific in this first trailer.
Source: Thanks to THR for the poster and trailer, and the festival’s site for the images.
