“Blue Jay conjures a vivid sense of what it’s like to be brought face to face with the yawning gap between past and present selves.”
– Jon Frosch, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
Former high school sweethearts Jim (Mark Duplass) and Amanda (Sarah Paulson) have been out of touch for more than 20 years — but by sheer coincidence, they run into each other at a grocery store back in their alpine hometown of Crestline, California. Jim’s mother has died and he’s here to put her house on the market. Amanda is visiting her pregnant sister. They get to talking, first over coffee, then over beer and jellybeans. Before they know it they’re at Jim’s mother’s house, where eve
rything sends them spiraling back into the past. Jim and Amanda’s lives have taken different directions, yet here they are, reconnecting like nothing has changed.
Alex Lehmann’s feature debut is a tender, wise chamber drama about finding yourself adrift in mid-life, longing for something essential that you fear has been lost.
The Orchard will release BLUE JAY in New York on Oct. 7, Los Angeles on Oct. 14 and on VOD platforms on October 11.