Spring Forward

Playwright and character actor Tom Gilroy made his feature directorial debut with this dialogue-driven character study set against the backdrop of the changing seasons. Liev Schreiber plays Paul, a short-fused ex-con who finds unlikely comfort, stability, and camaraderie when he takes an odd job in ...more

Neatly sidestepping the usual indie ineptitude, writer/director Tom Gilroy's intimate, static character study is the kind of film that uses its low budget to an advantage, mining emotions that a larger, more complicated shoot might have obscured. Spring Forward's set-up is resolutely uncommercial: two men, from different generations, talking about their lives over the course of the four seasons. Gilroy is a character actor, and as such, this is resolutely an actor's picture. But unlike other ...more