New featurette goes behind the scenes of director Megan Griffiths' dark drama.
One of the American indie film highlights of 2018 is writer/director Megan Griffiths' Sadie, which stars newcomer Sophia Mitri Schloss in the eponymous role of a teenage girl whose determination to remove her mother's new lover from their lives takes increasingly dark turns.
Also starring Melanie Lynskey, John Gallagher Jr., Tony Hale, Keith L. Williams and Danielle Brooks, Sadie is on VOD November 9th.
Read our review here.
Read our review here.
In the video below, Griffiths and her cast discuss both the process of bringing Sadie to the screen and its poignant theme.
The official synopsis reads:
Sadie is the powerful, unsettling and darkly funny story of a young girl (Sophia Mitri Schloss)who will stop at nothing to preserve her father's place on the home front. Sadie is the daughter of a soldier and she models herself after his military example. When her mom, Rae (Melanie Lynskey), begins dating a new man, Cyrus (John Gallagher Jr.), Sadie vows to come between them, whatever it takes. Cyrus becomes the enemy, and if she’s learned anything from the world she inhabits, it’s that the enemy deserves no mercy.