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John Cusack: New Crime Productions
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Though Must Love Dogs had turned a modest profit, Cusack had not enjoyed a hit since Identity. 2007 would see that change. It would ... see Cusack giving free rein to both his art and politics. The year would begin with Grace Is Gone, a New Crime production snapped up by the Weinstein brothers at Sundance. This was a quiet but nonetheless powerful comment on the invasion of Iraq, Cusack playing an ordinary Joe store manager whose soldier wife is killed in the conflict. Unable to tell his young daughters of their loss, he takes them on a road trip to Florida, trying to pluck up courage along the way.
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John resides in the windy city of Chicago where he spends effort on his theatre group, the New Criminals and its related film production company, New Crime Producitons. New Crime Productions was created with Paramount in 1992 and has a long term contract with a first look arrangement with Castle Rock Entertainment that allows John Cusack and his partners, Steven Pink and D. V. DeVincentis to write and produce films. John will be starring in some of these productions as well.
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Cusack will next be seen in The Weinstein Company film, "Grace Is Gone," which Cusack starred in and produced under his New Crime Productions banner, premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and was recognized with an "Audience Award." Cusack plays Stanley Phillips, a young father who takes his two daughters on an impulsive road trip upon learning that his wife, Grace, has been killed in service in Iraq. The film is written and directed by James C. Strouse and will be released on October 6th.
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If that was not lucky enough, Mr. Strouse ... wrote “Grace Is Gone” with Mr. Cusack in mind. After “Lonesome Jim,” Mr. Strouse’s agents had arranged for him a series of brief “Perrier meetings” with Hollywood producers — the meeting ends when the glass is empty — but Mr. Strouse held his tongue about the Iraq-widower idea until he arrived at the office of Mr. Cusack’s New Crime Productions.
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