Made in Texas: Tribute to Austin Film Society 2018 / Somebody Up There Likes Me / USA 2012
Somebody Up There Likes Me stars Nick Offerman as the sidekick of a young slacker who bumbles and fails his way through romantic encounters. Film Comment noted that “the film remains true to the Byington spirit – snapshots of life bursting with disappointment and desperation, dished up tongue in cheek, laced with offbeat wit, and offered in a spirit of fun.”
Filmmaker Bob Byington makes wonderfully deadpan, off-beat comedies and has relied on a consistent stable of collaborators and new discoveries from Austin, where he has lived for his entire career. Somebody Up There Likes Me stars Nick Offerman as the sidekick of a young slacker played by a Byington discovery, Keith Poulson, who bumbles and fails his way through romantic encounters. Film Comment noted that “the film remains true to the Byington spirit – snapshots of life bursting with disappointment and desperation, dished up tongue in cheek, laced with offbeat wit, and offered in a spirit of fun.”
Holly Herrick
76 min / Color, DCP
Director Bob Byington
/ Screenplay Bob Byington
/ Dir. of Photography Sean Price Williams
/ Music Chris Baio
/ Editor Frank V. Ross, Stephen Gurewitz
/ Art Director Leila Dallal
/ Producer Hans Graffunder, Nick Offerman
/ Production Somebody the Movie, LLC
/ Cast Keith Poulson, Nick Offerman, Jess Weixler, Stephanie Hunt, Marshall Bell
/ Sales M-13 Pictures
Bob Byington. Selected filmography: RSO (Registered Sex Offender) (2008), Harmony and Me (2009), Somebody Up There Likes Me (2012)
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