MOON MANOR
A Comedy About Death - Based On A True-ish Story
FEATURE FILM
Writer, Director, Producer
Co-Created with Machete Bang Bang as duo “KnifeRock”
Reviewers have called MOON MANOR a "brilliant, thoughtful exploration" and "one of the best of 2022."
MOON MANOR is the debut feature of female filmmaking duo and lifelong friends “KnifeRock,” comprised of Erin Granat & Machete Bang Bang. Score by Coldplay's The Dream Team with additional music by Joe Berry of M83. In the tradition of HAROLD AND MAUDE and other end-of-life comedies, MOON MANOR is an exploration of what it means to have a “good death.”
The movie was selected for dozens of festivals and the screenplay was been selected for the Academy of Motion Picture's Core Collection. Winner of the ScreenCraft Film Fund, MOON MANOR is Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. Distributed by Good Deed Entertainment, the movie had a theatrical run and was bought by Showtime for streaming.
SYNOPSIS:
Sometimes learning how to live, is learning how to die.
With advancing Alzheimer’s and a determination to do things his way, 80 year-old Jimmy has decided to throw himself a fabulous FUNeral before his intentional death. MOON MANOR takes place in one day - Jimmy’s last day alive - throughout which he’s visited by a cosmic being only he can see, a novice obituary writer, his sharp-witted death doula, estranged brother, salt-of-the earth caretaker, and various FUNeral guests, showing them that sometimes the art of living just may be the art of dying.
Touching on topical issues like the positive death movement, living with HIV, dying with Alzheimer's, and celebrating a queer love story for the ages, MOON MANOR’s cast represents diverse backgrounds and depicts death as something to be embraced rather than feared.
STARRING:
James Carrozo (HAIR), Debra Wilson (Mad TV), Reshma Gajjar (La La Land), Richard Riehle (Office Space), Lou Taylor Pucci (YOU), Heather Morris (GLEE), Whitmer Thomas (The Golden One - HBO), Gayle Rankin (GLOW), and Ricki Lake (The Ricki Lake Show).
