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CAST


Fay Grim……………………………………………………………...Parker Posey
Fulbright…………………………………………………………….Jeff Goldblum
Simon Grim………………………………………………………..James Urbaniak
Juliet………………………………………………………………Saffron Burrows
Ned Grim………………………………………………………………Liam Aiken
Bebe…..………………………………………………………… Elina Löwensohn
Carl Fogg…………………………………………………………...Leo Fitzpatrick
Angus James…………………………………………………..Chuck Montgomery
Henry Fool...……………………………………………………..Thomas Jay Ryan
Andre………………………………………………………………..Harald Schrott
Raul Picard………………………………………………………….Peter Benedict
Milla……………………………………………………………...Jasmin Tabatabai
Jallal Said Khan…….……………………………………………Anatole Taubman
Amin………………………………………………………………...Nikolai Kinski
Father Lang………………….………………………………………….DJ Mendel
Principal……………………………………………………………………..Megan Gay Prosecutor...……………………………………………………….John Keogh
Judge……………………………………………………………Claudia Michelsen
Rashid…….………………………………………………………….Medhi Nebuh
Chabrol….……………………………………………………………..Jef Bayonne
Zamyatin…………………………………………………………Jewgenij Sitochin

SYNOPSIS

Fay Grim, a single Mom from Woodside, Queens, is afraid her 14 year old son, Ned, will grow up to be like his father, Henry, who has been missing for seven years. Fay's brother Simon is serving ten years in prison for aiding in Henry's escape from the law. In the quiet of his cell, Simon has had time to think about the tumultuous years of Henry's presence among them--chronicled in Hartley's earlier film HENRY FOOL(1998). He has come to suspect that Henry was not the man he appeared to be. His suspicions are validated when the CIA asks Fay to travel to Paris to retrieve Henry's property. Her mission turns into a sprawling con-game, pitching Fay deep into a world of international espionage.

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

1998 was a very good year for Hal Hartley. That May, his latest film, HENRY FOOL, enjoyed its world premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, where Hartley was honored with the award for Best Screenplay. When the film opened in theatres a month or so later, Janet Maslin, writing in the New York Times, declared that Hartley’s previous work “is absolutely no preparation for the brilliance and deep resonance of his HENRY FOOL” and predicted the film would “linger where it matters: in the hearts and minds of viewers receptive to its epic vision.”

And linger it did, becoming something of an American independent film classic and, now almost a decade later, spawning that rarest of events in the independent sphere: a sequel.

“We jumped at the chance to be a part of FAY GRIM,” offer HDNet Films founders Jason Kliot and Joana Vicente, who financed the project. “FAY GRIM was, and is, everything we are about: working with a great independent filmmaker and a smart script. FAY GRIM tells us a lot about who we are as Americans, and how we relate to the new world we live in. It’s that rare film that is entertaining and funny and important all at the same time.”