A Divorce Comedy Built Around an Indecent Proposal
Trudie Styler directs "Up Against It," a comedy whose logline pairs post-marital acrimony with parental devotion, and whose co-leads are Antonio Banderas and Eva Birthistle as co-parenting divorcees facing an indecent proposal. The project was presented during Deadline's Toronto studio coverage, with CAA handling domestic sales and Beta Cinema international.
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A comedy that fuses custody logistics with an indecent proposal is a well-worn screwball engine. The question is whether the co-parenting material is the joke or the stakes.
The premise could work either way: parental devotion gives the comedy emotional stakes, while post-marital acrimony supplies the friction.
Worth noting the sales structure, though: domestic and international rights split between CAA and Beta Cinema says something about intended reach.