Today's St. Petersburg Times has a story from the Washington Post by Ann Hornaday about Oscar "orphans" — good films that got caught up in money problems or other unfortunate circumstances that prevented them from being released in time for Oscar consideration. Tops on her list of movies left in Oscar limbo is this year's Gasparilla International Film Festival opening night film: Rod Lurie's Nothing But the Truth, starring Kate Beckinsale in a story that echoes the Judith Miller/Valerie Plame case. So, even though Hornaday's piece says the films she's writing about "will not be playing at a theater near you," in Tampa Bay (for a change) that's not exactly the case. (The Rod Lurie-produced What Doesn't Kill You, another "limbo" film she mentions, is also scheduled to be shown at GIFF).
John Rosser wrote previously for The Daily Loaf about how GIFF snagged Truth for opening night. See his blog post here.
This article appears in Feb 18-24, 2009.