Apple Original Films and A24 today unveiled the trailer for the new drama Causeway, starring and produced by Academy Award winner Jennifer Lawrence. The film opens in select theaters and will be available to stream on Apple TV+ on November 4, 2022.
In Causeway, the new drama directed by Lila Neugebauer, Lawrence plays Lynsey, a military engineer who has returned to the States from Afghanistan with a debilitating brain injury after an IED explosion.
It’s a painful and slow recovery as she relearns to walk and re-trains her memory, aided by a chatty but tender caretaker (Jayne Houdyshell). But when she returns home to New Orleans, she has to face memories that are even more aching and formative than those she had in service: a reckoning with her childhood.
Staying with her mother (Linda Emond), with whom she shares a tense relationship, all Lynsey wants to do is return to her work as an engineer. Her doctor (Stephen McKinley Henderson) is wary, so she gets a job cleaning pools.
When her truck breaks down, she meets James Aucoin (Brian Tyree Henry), who works at the auto repair shop and offers her a ride home. Slowly, they started to rely on each other for company and solace. James, it turns out, is also suppressing his own past trauma.
The budding friendship of these two damaged souls forms the center and the heart of Neugebauer’s debut feature—a quiet but devastating and ultimately uplifting story about coming to terms and moving forward.
Causeway is directed by Lila Neugebauer (Broadway’s The Waverly Gallery, Maid, The Last Thing He Told Me) and written by Ottessa Moshfegh & Luke Goebel and Elizabeth Sanders.
The film stars Jennifer Lawrence (Don’t Look Up, Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle) and Brian Tyree Henry (Atlanta, Bullet Train, If Beale Street Could Talk). It is rated R for some language, sexual references, and drug use.
Lawrence and Justine Ciarrocchi produce the film. Neugebauer, Jacob Jaffke, Sophia Lin, Patricia Clarkson, Kirk Michael Fellows, and Christopher J. Surgent serve as executive producers.
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Mirko Parlevliet has been reporting on the entertainment industry since 1998 and founded Vital Thrills in 2018 to cover the latest news on streaming, movies, TV, and video games.