For filmmakers Kelly O'Sullivan and Alex Thompson, the movie biz is family biz. As they tell IndieWire, that's how they make features that come from the heart — and stand out because of it. When ...

Ghostlight (now streaming on Hulu) is gearing up to be 2024’s biggest critical sleeper hit, a teeny-tiny film that has been lauded as a heartwarming tearjerker since its Sundance debut. It’s a labor ...

A family tragedy intersects with a Shakespearean tragedy when a construction worker gets roped into performing in a community theater production of Romeo & Juliet. (Story aired on ATC on June 14, 2024 ...

Keith Kupferer, Katherine Mallen Kupferer and “Ghostlight” director Alex Thompson will reunite for a body swap comedy. Think “Freaky Friday” with an indie sensibility. From “Heaven Can Wait” to “Big” ...

Early on in Ghostlight, the gentle yet earnest dramedy by filmmaking duo Alex Thompson and Kelly O’Sullivan, we sit with a couple of characters as they watch the 1996 Baz Luhrmann film Romeo + Juliet.

The films of Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson are simple but deeply felt portraits of people trying to do right by themselves and finding profound connections with others and within themselves along ...

Getting impatient for Kenneth Lonergan to get his act together and make another great movie? Ghostlight should scratch that itch and more besides, being a funny, intelligent and yet at times almost ...

Ghostlight opens with darkness smothering the rustle and whispers of an audience making its way to their seats before the show starts. Then: The rattling hiss of the stage curtain opening. We expect ...

A family tragedy intersects with a Shakespearean tragedy in this gentle indie dramedy when a construction worker gets roped into performing in a community theater Romeo & Juliet. The title of the ...