The Long Home

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The Long Home
Directed by James Franco
Screenplay by
  • Vince Jolivett
  • Steve Janas
Based onThe Long Home
by William Gay
Produced by
  • James Franco
  • Vince Jolivett
  • Jay Davis
Starring
CinematographyBruce Thierry Cheung
Edited byLeo Scott
Music by Aaron Embry
Production
company
Release date
2021 (possible limited release)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Long Home is a 2021 American indie drama film directed by and starring James Franco, based on the 1999 novel of the same name by William Gay. It also stars Josh Hutcherson, Tim Blake Nelson, Courtney Love, Timothy Hutton, Giancarlo Esposito, Ashton Kutcher, Josh Hartnett, Zoe Levin, Lio Tipton, Scott Haze, and Robin Lord Taylor. [1] Principal photography began on May 1, 2015. [2] The film was completed, but there is contradictory reporting as to whether it has ever been released.

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Plot

Dallas Hardin, a corrupt businessman and bootlegger who dominates his small Tennessee town, murders honest workingman Nathan Winer in 1932. In the 1950s, Nathan Winer Jr., the dead man's son, is unaware of Hardin's role in his father's death and works as a carpenter for Hardin. Nathan Jr. is in love with Amber Rose, a young local girl whom Hardin employs as an escort. Elderly local recluse William Tell Oliver has evidence to prove Hardin is a murderer. Eerie events hint at a supernatural justice working its way out. [3]

Cast

Production

Pre-production

James Franco would direct, produce (through Rabbit Bandini Productions), and star in the film adaption of the William Gay novel of the same name. [4] Robert Halmi Jr. and Jim Reeve would be executive producers. [5]

The Long Home was offered up to $288,355 in Ohio film tax credits. [2]

Casting

Franco posted on Instagram a list of The Long Home cast which included Josh Hutcherson, Timothy Hutton, Keegan Allen, Ashley Greene, Tim Blake Nelson, Jim Parrack, and Scott Haze. [6]

Tim Blake Nelson collaborated with Franco for the seventh time as Hovington, a bootlegging patriarch. [1] Josh Hutcherson starred as Nathan Winer. [7] Hutton [8] and Courtney Love [9] were cast. Giancarlo Esposito played William Tell Oliver, "a Southern salt-of-the-earth man with a colorful, checkered life spent entirely within the confines of the country". [10] Several other actors signed on to the cast: Ashton Kutcher, Josh Hartnett, Zoe Levin (as Amber Rose), Lio Tipton, Haze, and Robin Lord Taylor. [5]

Filming

The film was shot in Eaton, Ohio, Hamilton, Ohio, and Cincinnati, Ohio. [11]

Principal photography began on May 1, 2015 [2] in Hamilton. [11] This coincided with filming of another Franco film, Goat, which was shot "pretty much simultaneously". [12] Filming began in Eaton on May 17. [13] Production on the film wrapped on May 23, 2015, with filming lasting 23 days.

Release

The Long Home was tentatively expected to be released in 2017, and in November of that year, the sales rights to the movie were acquired by Great Point Media. [14] Despite the film's IMDB page saying it received a non-specific limited release in the United States in 2021, a December 22, 2021 article states that it had not yet been released. [15]

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