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The Joy of Funerals for Channing
By M&C News Aug 9, 2005, 9:35 GMT
The stories follow a young widow who lusts, a daughter who aches, a shopaholic who hungers...The Joy of Funerals is collection that explores the lives of nine young women, each willing to take drastic measures to fill the voids created by longing and loneliness. The first eight face death differently, while the ninth woman Nina ties them all together by attending funerals in her search to connect with others. ...more
Stockard Channing will make her feature directorial debut on The Joy of Funerals, based on the short story collection by Alix Strauss. Strauss, a New York-based journalist and novelist, is writing the script.
Stockard Channing will direct a movie adaptation of Alix Strauss' short story colletction The Joy of Funerals.
Variety reports this will mark Channing's directorial debut, with filming due to start early next year.
The stories follow a young widow who lusts, a daughter who aches, a shopaholic who hungers...The Joy of Funerals is collection that explores the lives of nine young women, each willing to take drastic measures to fill the voids created by longing and loneliness. The first eight face death differently, while the ninth woman Nina ties them all together by attending funerals in her search to connect with others.
Strauss will also write the screenplay.
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