Too Romantic

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Too Romantic
Directed by Todd Field
Written by Todd Field
StarringMab Ashforth
Sean Murray
Edited byBarry S. Silver
Distributed byMercury Film
Release date
  • 1992 (1992)
Running time
30 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Too Romantic is a 1992 dramatic short film that Todd Field created while a fellow at the AFI Conservatory. It was his directorial debut. [1] It is a dramatic piece about a fifteen-year-old boy taking a road trip with his recently widowed grandmother. The piece is notable in that it was Field's first project as a writer/director and his first introduction to many of the collaborators he continued to work with on subsequent projects, including his Academy Award-nominated features In the Bedroom and Little Children .

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Premise

Too Romantic is about a fifteen-year-old boy taking a road trip with his recently widowed grandmother.

Cast

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