Peter Dinklage and Shirley MacLaine To Star in Indie Drama AMERICAN DREAMER
Peter Dinklage and Shirley MacLaine are set to star in an upcoming indie film titled American Dreamer. The movie is being directed by commercial director Paul Dektor, from a script written by Academy Award nominee Theodore Melfi (Hidden Figures, St. Vincent).
The film is based on a true story segment from the This American Life podcast. The story will follow “Dr. Phil Loder (Dinklage), a low-level, adjunct professor of economics at Harvard, whose grand dream of owning a home is tragically out of reach…until an incredible, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity comes his way when a lonely, childless, near-death widow (MacLaine) offers Phil her sprawling estate for pennies. But Phil quickly learns the deal is too good to be true.”
The movie is said to have a similar tone as St. Vincent. That certainly sounds like an interesting story.
Source: Deadline