DAVID
2020 · 12m · USA
Directed by Zach Woods
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, melancholic
A therapist struggles to balance two relationships collapsing simultaneously: his wrestler son and his suicidal patient — both named David — as his tools for helping others prove inadequate for the people closest to him.
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Will Ferrell as a suicidal patient and William Jackson Harper as the therapist whose son is also named David — Zach Woods directing his Silicon Valley pals into restraint mode is a real proposition, and 116K views says people felt it. I'm in.
Zach Woods directing Will Ferrell into one of his most restrained performances as a suicidal patient is an unexpected register pivot, and William Jackson Harper as the therapist is well-cast. Eleven minutes; serious comic talent doing serious work.
11:40, 116K views, 1,375 likes, Zach Woods directing William Jackson Harper and Will Ferrell — Ferrell restrained as the suicidal patient is the casting that does the work. Freestyle Picture Company production stack suggests this is operating at indie-feature performance discipline.