Helen Hunt’s ‘The Surrogate’ Finds a Buyer at Sundance
“The Surrogate,” an independent film starring Helen Hunt, John Hawkes, and William H. Macy, has just been picked up by Fox Searchlight for $6 million.
According to Reuters, it is the largest acquisition at the annual festival so far this year.
The movie is based on the true story of Mark O’Brien, a poet who spent much of his life confined to an iron lung. When O’Brien decides that it’s time to lose his virginity, he hires a sex surrogate, played by Helen Hunt.
Producer Judi Levine said:
“We look forward to working with Searchlight to broaden the conversation of topics that were once considered taboo and that represent what’s going on in society in a much more open way.”
According to the IndiWire, Fox Searchlight will release “The Surrogate” later this year and is hoping for the movie to pick up a few awards. Hawkes performance, in particular, is gathering a lot of praise.
Peter Debruge at Variety writes: “Performances are paramount in a film like this, and Hawkes works some kind of miracle despite the self-evident physical limitations of the role.”
Hunt, who has been out of the spotlight for several years, was also praised for her performance. Slash Film, which is already calling “The Surrogate” an Oscar contender for 2013, said: “While Hunt’s performance as Cheryl requires her to be nude for a large majority of the film, she’s not only beautiful, but incredibly confident with a sublayer of vulnerability.”
Are you excited to see “The Surrogate?”
Tags : fox searchlight, helen hunt, john hawkes, Sundance, the surrogate, wiliam h macy
Posted: January 24, 2012
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Jan 25, 2012
Yes, I am excited to see The Surrogate in my local theater. I'm also wondering what kind of rating it will get…
Jan 25, 2012
I would have been more excited 15 years ago when her tits didn't sag like oranges in a sock. she used to be hot.
Jan 25, 2012
Give me a break!!! Growing older is a part of reality. She doesn't feel the need to "fake" herself up like other stars with plastic surgery. She chose to go with natural beauty. I admire her for that. She is such a fantastic actress. I am excited as she has come back into film industry. If your profile picture is you, then you are nothing to look at.
Jan 25, 2012
She is still hot. I will wait for the DVD.
Jan 25, 2012
Can't wait to not see it!
Jan 25, 2012
The poor guy can't catch a break…an iron lung and he has to have sex with Helen Hunt? Maybe it's so he'll never ask for sex again?
Jan 25, 2012
Surrogate? Is that the new label for prostitute?
Jan 25, 2012
Angela Armstrong Dillinger i didnt say i was, but im not the one putting myself out there in the public eye and pimping my body out for 15 dollars a ticket either. nudity is a young persons game. nothing wrong with getting older. just know your limitations. plain and simple fact is when you get older, your physical beauty wanes and you should keep your body to yourself and your lved ones. no one else wants to see it. if you dont understand this or cant accept it, then thats your problem.
Jan 25, 2012
so this gets picked up for 6 mil but no one grabbed Tucker and Dale vs evil which was the funniest movie last year.
Jan 25, 2012
David Robinson Everyone is entitiled to their own opinion. I admire her to have the confidence to do so in the first place. This is based on a true story, they very well could not have gotten a young "hot" actress to play a middle aged one who the real guy in "reality" asked to be his surrogate. My question to you, 20 years down the road when your wife is say 50, are you gonna tell me that you no longer think she is hot???? Inner beauty should always be priority. This is what is wrong in today's society…all the pressure on young teens to be "anorexic like" figures and pressure for women to feel the need to "fake" themselves up with plastic surgery. Or the bullies to pick on the kids that don't "look, dress, or act" like society says they should. Then in turn for these poor bullied children to attempt suicide or the ones that actually commit it cuz they feel they will never fit in or live up to peoples reality.
Jan 25, 2012
Seems like only yesterday I was watching her on "Swiss Family Robinson" some kind of Disney movie TV adaptation. She grew up to be a real babe. Yet she has an elegance about her. I confess I'll enjoy the nude scenes but I'm also going because I've missed seeing her perform on TV or at the movies. She's one of only several living actors I think that I would enjoy meeting in person someday.
Jan 26, 2012
If your anything like your picture, I for one would much rather have sex with her! At least if her breasts sag it's because she's a woman and gravity along with age takes it's toll, you on the other hand are evidently addicted to food and your tits breasticles sag because of fat. Don't judge unless you are ready to be judged. Nudity might be a young person's game on the big screen, in your opinion, but to portray something real they couldn't go get some young porn star, which is probably what you're accustomed to.
Feb 10, 2012
Well put Angela and Debrah ……. He is a joke and no wonder he has hardly any friends, with his comments….. Follows Bob Levy who is going nowhere and no one would know without Howard.