PITCHFORK

Finished this script by Mark and Jay Duplass.

Pitchfork is about Claire - a mother who has lost his indie rocker son in a fatal car crash.  Unable to deal with her grief, Claire seeks out the music critic Tenderfoot who writes for a publication called Pitchfork.  Tenderfoot has bashed her son's band and states he wants to strangle her son so he will stop playing music.

Claire doesn't know exactly what she'll do once she finds Tenderfoot but she's bought a gun at a pawnshop so we can expect the worse.

Tenderfoot turns out to be a 22-yr old loser kid though with extreme self-esteem issues.

I love Mark Duplass and his work on THE LEAGUE.  PITCHFORK though is much different.  Coming to terms with grief is a hard sell.  If made, I don't see this film finding much of an audience.  After watching CYRUS, Jonah Hill would be perfect for Tenderfoot but like that film, this project will find a hard time crossing over to a mainstream audience.

Nothing much happens visually.  Claire doesn't kill Tenderfoot, instead she finds empathy for him.  That may work well in a novel but cinematically, it's sparse.

This is a pass for me but I'm willing to look at anything and everything the Duplass brothers write in the future.