“Causeway” stars Jennifer Lawrence as Lynsey, a returning Afghanistan war vet who befriends Henry (Brian Tyree Henry) in her hometown of New Orleans while recovering from a brain injury. The acclaimed film from Apple TV+ was directed by Lila Neugebauer, known mostly for New York theater (including directing Elaine May’s Tony-winning turn in “The Waverly Gallery”) and episodes of “Maid” and “The Sex Lives of College Girls.” The screenwriting team is Luke Goebel, Elizabeth Sanders, and the much-discussed novelist Ottessa Moshfegh, making her first entry into Hollywood.
Henry reaped an Oscar bid for Best Supporting Actor and recently joined Lawrence (the second-youngest Best Actress winner ever for “Silver Linings Playbook”) for a candid conversation about “Causeway.” Watch their lively discussion here or read the transcript of their remarks below.
Jennifer Lawrence:
Thank you guys for seeing our movie. I have my co-star and Oscar nominated, Brian Tyree Henry. If...
Henry reaped an Oscar bid for Best Supporting Actor and recently joined Lawrence (the second-youngest Best Actress winner ever for “Silver Linings Playbook”) for a candid conversation about “Causeway.” Watch their lively discussion here or read the transcript of their remarks below.
Jennifer Lawrence:
Thank you guys for seeing our movie. I have my co-star and Oscar nominated, Brian Tyree Henry. If...
- 3/10/2023
- by Tom O'Neil
- Gold Derby
Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Brian Tyree Henry, Linda Emond, Jayne Houdyshell, Stephen McKinley Henderson | Written by Elizabeth Sanders, Ottessa Moshfegh, Luke Goebel | Directed by Lila Neugebauer
Lynsey, a U.S. soldier, experiences a traumatic brain injury during her tour in Afghanistan which forces her to return home. She struggles to return to her daily life with her mother as she waits for her eventual redeployment.
There are few movies released in 2022 that had such a strong sense of understanding, care, and compassion that was ever-so-present the way it was in Lila Neugebauer‘s Causeway – a psychological drama film unlike any I’ve seen in quite a long time. It’s not only an excellently subtle character study that explores themes such as grief and trauma, but it’s also one of the best movies of the year.
From its opening scene alone, we understand that Jennifer Lawrence‘s character Lynsey has...
Lynsey, a U.S. soldier, experiences a traumatic brain injury during her tour in Afghanistan which forces her to return home. She struggles to return to her daily life with her mother as she waits for her eventual redeployment.
There are few movies released in 2022 that had such a strong sense of understanding, care, and compassion that was ever-so-present the way it was in Lila Neugebauer‘s Causeway – a psychological drama film unlike any I’ve seen in quite a long time. It’s not only an excellently subtle character study that explores themes such as grief and trauma, but it’s also one of the best movies of the year.
From its opening scene alone, we understand that Jennifer Lawrence‘s character Lynsey has...
- 1/12/2023
- by Caillou Pettis
- Nerdly
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[This story contains spoilers from the Apple and A24’s film Causeway.]
The A24 and Apple drama Causeway largely revolves around the relationship between Jennifer Lawrence’s returning soldier Lynsey and Brian Tyree Henry’s mechanic James, so it was key that the two actors at the center of the film had strong chemistry with each other.
Luckily first-time film director Lila Neugebauer knew the two were the right pair “the minute they met.”
“I had an inkling, having met Jen and spent time with her, meaningful time with her,” Neugebauer, who worked extensively in theater before directing Causeway, told The Hollywood Reporter at a New York screening of the film earlier this month. “And having known Brian for almost 20 years, I had a suspicion that they would connect easily and deeply and fortuitously, that suspicion proved accurate.”
Neugebauer, who met Henry when the two were students at Yale,...
[This story contains spoilers from the Apple and A24’s film Causeway.]
The A24 and Apple drama Causeway largely revolves around the relationship between Jennifer Lawrence’s returning soldier Lynsey and Brian Tyree Henry’s mechanic James, so it was key that the two actors at the center of the film had strong chemistry with each other.
Luckily first-time film director Lila Neugebauer knew the two were the right pair “the minute they met.”
“I had an inkling, having met Jen and spent time with her, meaningful time with her,” Neugebauer, who worked extensively in theater before directing Causeway, told The Hollywood Reporter at a New York screening of the film earlier this month. “And having known Brian for almost 20 years, I had a suspicion that they would connect easily and deeply and fortuitously, that suspicion proved accurate.”
Neugebauer, who met Henry when the two were students at Yale,...
- 11/26/2022
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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“Permanence was a new reckoning,” says Lila Neugebauer of directing Apple’s soulful film Causeway. The 37-year-old director had made a name for herself in New York in the past decade for helming acclaimed off-Broadway plays like Annie Baker’s The Antipodes, Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves and Tracy Letts’ Mary Page Marlowe before making her Broadway debut with a 2018 production of Kenneth Lonergan’s The Waverly Gallery — which earned a Tony nomination for best revival of a play and won stage and screen veteran Elaine May her only Tony, for best actress in a play.
Neugebauer was comfortable in that medium — she says that theater “is invested in its own fragility and ephemerality. It’s expiring in front of you in real time.” But Hollywood was already calling: In 2018, she directed an episode of the Duplass brothers’ Room 104 for HBO, and early...
“Permanence was a new reckoning,” says Lila Neugebauer of directing Apple’s soulful film Causeway. The 37-year-old director had made a name for herself in New York in the past decade for helming acclaimed off-Broadway plays like Annie Baker’s The Antipodes, Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves and Tracy Letts’ Mary Page Marlowe before making her Broadway debut with a 2018 production of Kenneth Lonergan’s The Waverly Gallery — which earned a Tony nomination for best revival of a play and won stage and screen veteran Elaine May her only Tony, for best actress in a play.
Neugebauer was comfortable in that medium — she says that theater “is invested in its own fragility and ephemerality. It’s expiring in front of you in real time.” But Hollywood was already calling: In 2018, she directed an episode of the Duplass brothers’ Room 104 for HBO, and early...
- 11/21/2022
- by Tyler Coates
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
When it premiered at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, “Causeway” attracted plenty of attention for helping to relaunch Jennifer Lawrence’s acting career. By the actress’ own admission, she had begun to feel trapped by the big franchise roles that made her a superstar at such a young age. She sought a second act defined by smaller, more character-driven films like “Causeway,” which she also developed through her production company, Excellent Cadaver.
But any effect that “Causeway” had on Lawrence’s career arc is only a small part of the film’s impact. Telling the story of an Army Corps engineer who suffers a brain injury while serving in Afghanistan, the film has been praised by critics as one of the best films about traumatized veterans adapting to civilian life in recent memory.
At IndieWire’s Consider This Brunch, “Causeway” director Lila Neugebauer, producer Justine Ciarrocchi, composer Alex Somers, and...
But any effect that “Causeway” had on Lawrence’s career arc is only a small part of the film’s impact. Telling the story of an Army Corps engineer who suffers a brain injury while serving in Afghanistan, the film has been praised by critics as one of the best films about traumatized veterans adapting to civilian life in recent memory.
At IndieWire’s Consider This Brunch, “Causeway” director Lila Neugebauer, producer Justine Ciarrocchi, composer Alex Somers, and...
- 11/18/2022
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
Although Causeway opens in an unassuming manner, from the get-go it tells us there’s much more than meets the eye. Initially, we see the back of Lynsey’s (Jennifer Lawrence) head as she waits for someone to pick her up. When her ride arrives, we learn something new about her, as we see an officer push her in a wheelchair. Soon she’s taken to a facility where people just want to help her feel better. Eventually, we learn, that Lynsey suffered a severe brain injury that forced her to come home from a tour in Afghanistan. The problem is, home no longer feels like that for her.
As Lynsey adjusts to this world she barely recognizes, in hopes she will soon be redeployed, she meets James (Brian Tyree Henry), a kind mechanic who recognizes a fellow spirit in need when she arrives in his workshop with a broken truck.
As Lynsey adjusts to this world she barely recognizes, in hopes she will soon be redeployed, she meets James (Brian Tyree Henry), a kind mechanic who recognizes a fellow spirit in need when she arrives in his workshop with a broken truck.
- 11/18/2022
- by Jose Solís
- The Film Stage
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“What drew me to the script was the simplicity of it, the stillness of it. There weren’t scenes like, ‘Here’s the conflict, here’s the climax.’ It was actually just about being human and existing,” Brian Tyree Henry says of his new film Causeway, for which he’s already been nominated for outstanding supporting performance by the Gotham Independence Film Awards.
Henry was visiting Palm Springs — having flown back two days earlier to the U.S. from Australia, where he had been filming the Godzilla vs. Kong sequel — in support of a Palm Springs International Film Society screening of Causeway last Friday that was hosted by Apple Original Films, A24 and The Hollywood Reporter.
Directed by Lila Neugebauer, an award-winning stage director making her feature film debut, Causeway stars Jennifer Lawrence as Lynsey and Henry as James, two survivors of trauma...
“What drew me to the script was the simplicity of it, the stillness of it. There weren’t scenes like, ‘Here’s the conflict, here’s the climax.’ It was actually just about being human and existing,” Brian Tyree Henry says of his new film Causeway, for which he’s already been nominated for outstanding supporting performance by the Gotham Independence Film Awards.
Henry was visiting Palm Springs — having flown back two days earlier to the U.S. from Australia, where he had been filming the Godzilla vs. Kong sequel — in support of a Palm Springs International Film Society screening of Causeway last Friday that was hosted by Apple Original Films, A24 and The Hollywood Reporter.
Directed by Lila Neugebauer, an award-winning stage director making her feature film debut, Causeway stars Jennifer Lawrence as Lynsey and Henry as James, two survivors of trauma...
- 11/14/2022
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Causeway Review — Causeway (2022) Film Review, a movie directed by Lila Neugebauer, written by Ottessa Moshfegh, Luke Goebel and Elizabeth Sanders and starring Jennifer Lawrence, Brian Tyree Henry, Linda Emond, Danny Wolohan, Jayne Houdyshell, Neal Huff, Han Soto, Frederick Weller, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Will Pullen, Russell Harvard, Sue-Lynn, Samuel Ali, Claire Ishi Ayetoro [...]
Continue reading: Film Review: Causeway (2022): Jennifer Lawrence is in Top Form in a Slow-Moving but Affecting Dramatic Film...
Continue reading: Film Review: Causeway (2022): Jennifer Lawrence is in Top Form in a Slow-Moving but Affecting Dramatic Film...
- 11/13/2022
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
Chicago – Lila Neugebauer has made her transition complete. The well-known stage director morphed into a behind-the-camera director, beginning with TV and culminating in her recent Apple TV+ film debut “Causeway,” featuring Jennifer Lawrence and Brian Tyree Henry in a film of hope and redemption.
Causeway
Photo credit: Apple TV+
In this intimate drama, Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence is a army veteran struggling to adapt to her life in New Orleans after experiencing a head injury in Afghanistan. When she meets James (Brian Tyree Henry), a local mechanic with a difficult past of his own, she forges a bond that both helps and complicates her own road to recovery.
Lila Neugebauer made her mark as a stage director in New York. Her Off-Broadway work led to her Broadway debut in 2018 as a director of “The Waverly Gallery,” featuring show business legend Elaine May. This revival received a Tony nomination for Best Play,...
Causeway
Photo credit: Apple TV+
In this intimate drama, Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence is a army veteran struggling to adapt to her life in New Orleans after experiencing a head injury in Afghanistan. When she meets James (Brian Tyree Henry), a local mechanic with a difficult past of his own, she forges a bond that both helps and complicates her own road to recovery.
Lila Neugebauer made her mark as a stage director in New York. Her Off-Broadway work led to her Broadway debut in 2018 as a director of “The Waverly Gallery,” featuring show business legend Elaine May. This revival received a Tony nomination for Best Play,...
- 11/6/2022
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – Lila Neugebauer has made the transition complete. The well-known stage director morphed into a behind the camera director, beginning with TV and culminating in her recent Apple TV+ film debut “Causeway,” featuring Jennifer Lawrence and Brian Tyree Henry in a film of hope and redemption.
Causeway
Photo credit: Apple TV+
In this intimate drama, Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence is a army veteran struggling to adapt to her life in New Orleans after experiencing a head injury in Afghanistan. When she meets James (Brian Tyree Henry), a local mechanic with a difficult past of his own, she forges a bond that both helps and complicates her own road to recovery.
Lila Neugebauer made her mark as a stage director in New York. Her Off-Broadway work led to her Broadway debut in 2018 as a director of “The Waverly Gallery,” featuring show business legend Elaine May. This revival received a Tony nomination for Best Play,...
Causeway
Photo credit: Apple TV+
In this intimate drama, Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence is a army veteran struggling to adapt to her life in New Orleans after experiencing a head injury in Afghanistan. When she meets James (Brian Tyree Henry), a local mechanic with a difficult past of his own, she forges a bond that both helps and complicates her own road to recovery.
Lila Neugebauer made her mark as a stage director in New York. Her Off-Broadway work led to her Broadway debut in 2018 as a director of “The Waverly Gallery,” featuring show business legend Elaine May. This revival received a Tony nomination for Best Play,...
- 11/6/2022
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including red carpets for Selena Gomez: My Mind and Me, My Policeman, Mammals and The Good Fight.
My Policeman L.A. premiere
Harry Styles and David Dawson brought their Amazon film to Westwood on Tuesday for its L.A. premiere, along with producers Robbie Rogers and Sarah Schechter.
Vp of Amazon Video Albert Cheng, vp of media and entertainment Cory Shields, head of marketing of Amazon Studios Sue Kroll, head of movies Julie Rapaport, Sarah Schechter, David Dawson, head of Amazon Studios Jennifer Salke, Harry Styles, Robbie Rogers and Bethan Roberts David Dawson and Harry Styles
Glamour Women of the Year
Glamour hosted its annual Women of the Year Awards on Tuesday in NYC, celebrating this year’s distinguished honorees including Angela Bassett, Jennifer Hudson,...
Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including red carpets for Selena Gomez: My Mind and Me, My Policeman, Mammals and The Good Fight.
My Policeman L.A. premiere
Harry Styles and David Dawson brought their Amazon film to Westwood on Tuesday for its L.A. premiere, along with producers Robbie Rogers and Sarah Schechter.
Vp of Amazon Video Albert Cheng, vp of media and entertainment Cory Shields, head of marketing of Amazon Studios Sue Kroll, head of movies Julie Rapaport, Sarah Schechter, David Dawson, head of Amazon Studios Jennifer Salke, Harry Styles, Robbie Rogers and Bethan Roberts David Dawson and Harry Styles
Glamour Women of the Year
Glamour hosted its annual Women of the Year Awards on Tuesday in NYC, celebrating this year’s distinguished honorees including Angela Bassett, Jennifer Hudson,...
- 11/4/2022
- by Kirsten Chuba
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Causeway Trailer — Lila Neugebauer‘s Causeway (2022) movie trailer has been released by Apple TV+. The Causeway trailer stars Jennifer Lawrence, Brian Tyree Henry, Jayne Houdyshell, Linda Emond, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and Frederick Weller. Crew Luke Goebel, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Elizabeth Sanders wrote the screenplay for Causeway. Name created the music for the film. [...]
Continue reading: Causeway (2022) Movie Trailer: Veteran Jennifer Lawrence Returns Home From Afghanistan with Ptsd...
Continue reading: Causeway (2022) Movie Trailer: Veteran Jennifer Lawrence Returns Home From Afghanistan with Ptsd...
- 10/6/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence stars as a veteran who returns home suffering from Ptsd as well as a traumatic brain injury in Apple Original Films and A24’s Causeway. The trailer shows Lawrence’s character struggling to make it through dark days while recovering from an Ied explosion.
The film also stars Brian Tyree Henry, Jayne Houdyshell (Only Murders in the Building), Linda Emond (The Patient), and Stephen McKinley Henderson (Dune). Lila Neugebauer (The Last Thing He Told Me) directed from a screenplay by Ottessa Moshfegh, Luke Goebel, and Elizabeth Sanders.
Jennifer Lawrence and Justine Ciarrocchi produced. Lila Neugebauer, Jacob Jaffke, Sophia Lin, Patricia Clarkson, Kirk Michael Fellows, and Christopher J. Surgent executive produced.
Causeway will open in select theaters and on Apple TV+ on November 4, 2022.
Poster for Apple Original Films and A24’s ‘Causeway’
The Plot:
In Causeway, the new drama directed by Lila Neugebauer, Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence plays Lynsey,...
The film also stars Brian Tyree Henry, Jayne Houdyshell (Only Murders in the Building), Linda Emond (The Patient), and Stephen McKinley Henderson (Dune). Lila Neugebauer (The Last Thing He Told Me) directed from a screenplay by Ottessa Moshfegh, Luke Goebel, and Elizabeth Sanders.
Jennifer Lawrence and Justine Ciarrocchi produced. Lila Neugebauer, Jacob Jaffke, Sophia Lin, Patricia Clarkson, Kirk Michael Fellows, and Christopher J. Surgent executive produced.
Causeway will open in select theaters and on Apple TV+ on November 4, 2022.
Poster for Apple Original Films and A24’s ‘Causeway’
The Plot:
In Causeway, the new drama directed by Lila Neugebauer, Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence plays Lynsey,...
- 10/6/2022
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
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Apple and A24 have dropped the first look at Jennifer Lawrence’s upcoming big-screen return, opposite Brian Tyree Henry as two people bonded by trauma, in Causeway.
Directed by first-time feature director Lila Neugebauer (Broadway’s The Waverly Gallery, Netflix’s Maid, The Last Thing He Told Me), the film features the Oscar winner as Lynsey, a military engineer who has returned to the States from Afghanistan with a debilitating brain injury. The Atlanta and Bullet Train star plays James, a stranger who offers her a ride home and is also suppressing his own past trauma. The two begin to seek out each other’s company as they provide solace to each other on their journey to recovery.
The movie will play in select theaters and globally on Apple TV+ Nov. 4.
Lawrence last appeared in Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up for Netflix...
Apple and A24 have dropped the first look at Jennifer Lawrence’s upcoming big-screen return, opposite Brian Tyree Henry as two people bonded by trauma, in Causeway.
Directed by first-time feature director Lila Neugebauer (Broadway’s The Waverly Gallery, Netflix’s Maid, The Last Thing He Told Me), the film features the Oscar winner as Lynsey, a military engineer who has returned to the States from Afghanistan with a debilitating brain injury. The Atlanta and Bullet Train star plays James, a stranger who offers her a ride home and is also suppressing his own past trauma. The two begin to seek out each other’s company as they provide solace to each other on their journey to recovery.
The movie will play in select theaters and globally on Apple TV+ Nov. 4.
Lawrence last appeared in Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up for Netflix...
- 10/6/2022
- by Jackie Strause
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jennifer Lawrence may be back in the awards race this year with her new film “Causeway,” and our first look at her performance courtesy of the film’s trailer has landed online.
Written by Ottessa Moshfegh, Luke Goebel and Elizabeth Sanders and directed by Broadway veteran Lila Neugebauer, the Apple Original Films and A24 drama follows a military engineer who has returned to the States from Afghanistan with a debilitating brain injury after an Ied explosion.
The official synopsis continues: “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 even more aching and formative than those she had in service: a reckoning with her childhood.”
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‘Causeway’ Film Review: A Subdued Jennifer Lawrence Shines in Intimate Drama
Lawrence’s character...
Written by Ottessa Moshfegh, Luke Goebel and Elizabeth Sanders and directed by Broadway veteran Lila Neugebauer, the Apple Original Films and A24 drama follows a military engineer who has returned to the States from Afghanistan with a debilitating brain injury after an Ied explosion.
The official synopsis continues: “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 even more aching and formative than those she had in service: a reckoning with her childhood.”
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‘Causeway’ Film Review: A Subdued Jennifer Lawrence Shines in Intimate Drama
Lawrence’s character...
- 10/6/2022
- by Adam Chitwood
- The Wrap
Returning to normal is never easy.
On Thursday, Apple TV+ debuted the official trailer for “Causeway”, the new film starring Jennifer Lawrence, which premiered at TIFF last month.
Read More: Jennifer Lawrence Opens Up In ’73 Questions’ Interview For Vogue
In the movie, Lawrence plays Lynsey, a military engineer who returns to the U.S. from Afghanistan after being severely injured in an explosion.
A24/Apple TV+
After undergoing rehabilitation and therapy, Lawrence returns home to New Orleans to pick up the pieces of her life, dealing with the family traumas she was escaping in the first place.
There, she meets auto mechanic James, played by Brian Tyree Henry, who is dealing with traumas of his own. The two form an unlikely bond, helping each other find solace.
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Directed by Lila Neugebauer...
On Thursday, Apple TV+ debuted the official trailer for “Causeway”, the new film starring Jennifer Lawrence, which premiered at TIFF last month.
Read More: Jennifer Lawrence Opens Up In ’73 Questions’ Interview For Vogue
In the movie, Lawrence plays Lynsey, a military engineer who returns to the U.S. from Afghanistan after being severely injured in an explosion.
A24/Apple TV+
After undergoing rehabilitation and therapy, Lawrence returns home to New Orleans to pick up the pieces of her life, dealing with the family traumas she was escaping in the first place.
There, she meets auto mechanic James, played by Brian Tyree Henry, who is dealing with traumas of his own. The two form an unlikely bond, helping each other find solace.
Read More: Jennifer Lawrence Is ‘Bothered’ By The Pay Gap Between Her And ‘Don’t Look Up’ Co-Star Leonardo DiCaprio
Directed by Lila Neugebauer...
- 10/6/2022
- by Corey Atad
- ET Canada
Jennifer Lawrence is just trying to rebuild her life.
Starring as a military engineer who returns from Afghanistan after suffering from a brain injury following an Ied explosion, Lawrence is shown battling post-traumatic stress disorder as well as trying to physically and emotionally recover from warfare. Brian Tyree Henry also stars. “Causeway” is produced by A24 and Apple Original Films, premiering in select theaters and on AppleTV+ November 4.
To film and produce “Causeway” was a change of pace for Lawrence. The Oscar winner previously told Vogue that she was drawn to the “off-the-bat” rhythm of the storytelling, adding, “I like a fast-paced Marvel movie as much as the next person. But I do miss the slow melody of a character-driven story.” But the political and personal atmosphere made for “the hardest shoot” of Lawrence’s life.
“Yes, I did make a movie. I worked really hard on it. It was...
Starring as a military engineer who returns from Afghanistan after suffering from a brain injury following an Ied explosion, Lawrence is shown battling post-traumatic stress disorder as well as trying to physically and emotionally recover from warfare. Brian Tyree Henry also stars. “Causeway” is produced by A24 and Apple Original Films, premiering in select theaters and on AppleTV+ November 4.
To film and produce “Causeway” was a change of pace for Lawrence. The Oscar winner previously told Vogue that she was drawn to the “off-the-bat” rhythm of the storytelling, adding, “I like a fast-paced Marvel movie as much as the next person. But I do miss the slow melody of a character-driven story.” But the political and personal atmosphere made for “the hardest shoot” of Lawrence’s life.
“Yes, I did make a movie. I worked really hard on it. It was...
- 10/6/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Jennifer Lawrence broke onto the scene as one of the youngest Best Actress nominees ever with “Winter’s Bone” and, just a short time later, became the second-youngest woman to ever win Best Actress thanks to “Silver Linings Playbook.” But despite subsequent Oscar nominations for “American Hustle” and “Joy” and a well-received turn in 2017’s “mother!” Lawrence has spent the last five years keeping a lower profile and starring in either forgettable action pictures like “Red Sparrow” or last year’s ensemble comedy “Don’t Look Up.”
But this year, Lawrence returns to her dramatic roots with “Causeway,” a low-key two-hander with Brian Tyree Henry that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last month to strong reviews for Lawrence and Henry. On Thursday, Apple Original Films and A24 dropped a short trailer for the November release – a moody clip that shows how Lawrence’s character is in the midst of an emotional crisis,...
But this year, Lawrence returns to her dramatic roots with “Causeway,” a low-key two-hander with Brian Tyree Henry that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last month to strong reviews for Lawrence and Henry. On Thursday, Apple Original Films and A24 dropped a short trailer for the November release – a moody clip that shows how Lawrence’s character is in the midst of an emotional crisis,...
- 10/6/2022
- by Jordan Hoffman
- Gold Derby
A24 and Apple Original Films have released the first trailer for “Causeway,” their new drama starring Academy Award winner Jennifer Lawrence.
Lawrence stars as Lynsey, a military engineer who returns to the United States from Afghanistan after suffering a debilitating brain injury after an Ied explosion.
After premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, Lawrence, who also serves as one of the film’s producers, garnered rave reviews for her performance. The film hopes to find a pathway into a crowded lead actress field.
Breaking through as an Academy favorite, Lawrence won best actress for her turn as a young widow in David O. Russell’s “Silver Linings Playbook” (2012). She’s also amassed three other acting noms for Debra Granik’s “Winter’s Bone” (2010), “American Hustle” (2013) and “Joy” (2015), also both from Russell.
Variety chief film critic Owen Gleiberman praised Lawrence’s work in the film in his review out of TIFF,...
Lawrence stars as Lynsey, a military engineer who returns to the United States from Afghanistan after suffering a debilitating brain injury after an Ied explosion.
After premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, Lawrence, who also serves as one of the film’s producers, garnered rave reviews for her performance. The film hopes to find a pathway into a crowded lead actress field.
Breaking through as an Academy favorite, Lawrence won best actress for her turn as a young widow in David O. Russell’s “Silver Linings Playbook” (2012). She’s also amassed three other acting noms for Debra Granik’s “Winter’s Bone” (2010), “American Hustle” (2013) and “Joy” (2015), also both from Russell.
Variety chief film critic Owen Gleiberman praised Lawrence’s work in the film in his review out of TIFF,...
- 10/6/2022
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
This article contains IndieWire’s preliminary Best Original Screenplay predictions for the 2023 Oscars. We regularly update our predictions throughout awards season, and republish previous versions (like this one) for readers to track changes in how the Oscar race has changed. For the latest update on the frontrunners for the 95th Academy Awards, see our 2023 Oscars predictions hub.
Nominations voting is from January 12-17, 2023, with official Oscar nominations announced January 24, 2023. Final voting is March 2-7, 2023. And finally, the 95th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 12 and air live on ABC at 8:00 p.m. Et/ 5:00 p.m. Pt. We update predictions through awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2023 Oscar picks.
The State of the Race
While there is much to come, this year has already revealed several Best Original Screenplay contenders. Given that this specific Academy Awards category often celebrates narrative ingenuity, a film like “Everything Everywhere All at Once,...
Nominations voting is from January 12-17, 2023, with official Oscar nominations announced January 24, 2023. Final voting is March 2-7, 2023. And finally, the 95th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 12 and air live on ABC at 8:00 p.m. Et/ 5:00 p.m. Pt. We update predictions through awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2023 Oscar picks.
The State of the Race
While there is much to come, this year has already revealed several Best Original Screenplay contenders. Given that this specific Academy Awards category often celebrates narrative ingenuity, a film like “Everything Everywhere All at Once,...
- 9/23/2022
- by Marcus Jones
- Indiewire
It comes as a bit of a surprise to see how jarring Jennifer Lawrence’s presence is in Causeway, her new film directed by first-time filmmaker Lila Neugebauer. A subdued character drama about a soldier recovering back home after suffering a brain injury in Afghanistan, it marks both Lawrence’s return to playing a central character since 2018’s Red Sparrow (unless you want to count her part in 2021’s ensemble Don’t Look Up) and her most grounded role in an even longer time. Go back to the mid-2010s and you’ll find her playing a Russian spy, a mutant superhero, a metaphor for mother nature, and (scariest of all) trapped in outer space with Chris Pratt, which might explain why it takes some adjusting to see her as a regular person trying to rebuild themselves. It’s a welcome and savvy move: Causeway serves as a reminder of her strengths,...
- 9/13/2022
- by C.J. Prince
- The Film Stage
“Causeway,” starring Jennifer Lawrence as a U.S. Army soldier recovering from injuries that are physical, mental, and spiritual, is the furthest thing from a genre film. Yet it belongs to what I’ve almost come to think of as a genre: the slow-burn non-verbal indie gloomfest. In saying that, I don’t mean to make light of the subject. Lawrence plays Lynsey, a member of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers who returns from Afghanistan after riding in a vehicle that was struck by a bomb, which caused her to have a cerebral hemorrhage. At the start, she’s seated in a wheelchair, waiting for the home health-care worker (Jayne Houdyshell) who’s going to look after her as she undergoes rehab. Tentatively, Lynsey starts to walk, but for a while she struggles to bathe, drive, remember things. The brain injury has smashed and weakened her; she’s a person in fragments.
- 9/12/2022
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
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While Causeway is positioned as an intimate account of the troubled return home from Afghanistan of an injured U.S. Army engineer played by Jennifer Lawrence, this minor-key drama only really blossoms after its stealth transformation into a balanced two-hander about damaged people finding mutual solace. Brian Tyree Henry’s soulful work brings out richer shadings in Lawrence’s guarded stoicism and vice versa. Debuting director Lila Neugebauer surrounds herself with top-tier recruits from her New York stage background to flesh out this melancholy reflection on trauma and trust, set against the sleepy background of blue-collar New Orleans.
Neugebauer made a name for herself with incisive theater work in the past decade, notably her immersive staging of Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves, about a high school girls’ soccer team; the Edward Albee diptych At Home at the Zoo; and Tracy Letts’ fragmented character study Mary Page Marlowe.
While Causeway is positioned as an intimate account of the troubled return home from Afghanistan of an injured U.S. Army engineer played by Jennifer Lawrence, this minor-key drama only really blossoms after its stealth transformation into a balanced two-hander about damaged people finding mutual solace. Brian Tyree Henry’s soulful work brings out richer shadings in Lawrence’s guarded stoicism and vice versa. Debuting director Lila Neugebauer surrounds herself with top-tier recruits from her New York stage background to flesh out this melancholy reflection on trauma and trust, set against the sleepy background of blue-collar New Orleans.
Neugebauer made a name for herself with incisive theater work in the past decade, notably her immersive staging of Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves, about a high school girls’ soccer team; the Edward Albee diptych At Home at the Zoo; and Tracy Letts’ fragmented character study Mary Page Marlowe.
- 9/11/2022
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Hollywood actress Jennifer Lawrence brought serious star power to the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday, appearing at the world premiere of her new film ‘Causeway’. But despite the big, Hollywood name, ‘Causeway’ was a quieter character study, reports Variety.
Lawrence stars in and produces the film, in which she plays a soldier returning to civilian life in New Orleans.
The film also stars Brian Tyree Henry, Linda Emond, Stephen McKinley Henderson and Russell Harvard. ‘Causeway’ is the feature directorial debut of theatre veteran Lila Neugebauer, with a script written by Elizabeth Sanders, Luke Goebel and Ottessa Moshfegh.
Her character in the film, Lynsey, is desperate to redeploy.
When asked what drove her towards the decision, Lawrence said she found a common ground.
“I felt something in my gut when I read this,” she said.
“That kind of immediate, ‘We have to make this’. I identify with that feeling of trying to find your home.
Lawrence stars in and produces the film, in which she plays a soldier returning to civilian life in New Orleans.
The film also stars Brian Tyree Henry, Linda Emond, Stephen McKinley Henderson and Russell Harvard. ‘Causeway’ is the feature directorial debut of theatre veteran Lila Neugebauer, with a script written by Elizabeth Sanders, Luke Goebel and Ottessa Moshfegh.
Her character in the film, Lynsey, is desperate to redeploy.
When asked what drove her towards the decision, Lawrence said she found a common ground.
“I felt something in my gut when I read this,” she said.
“That kind of immediate, ‘We have to make this’. I identify with that feeling of trying to find your home.
- 9/11/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Jennifer Lawrence brought serious starpower to the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday, appearing at the world premiere of her new film “Causeway.”
But despite the big, Hollywood name “Causeway” was a quieter character study.
Lawrence stars in and produces the film, in which she plays a soldier returning to civilian life in New Orleans. The film also stars Brian Tyree Henry, Linda Emond, Stephen McKinley Henderson and Russell Harvard. “Causeway” is the feature directorial debut of theater veteran Lila Neugebauer, with a script written by Elizabeth Sanders, Luke Goebel and Ottessa Moshfegh.
Her character in the film, Lynsey, is desperate to redeploy. When asked what drove her towards the decision, Lawrence said she found a common ground. “I felt something in my gut when I read this,” she said. “That kind of immediate, ‘We have to make this.’ I identify with that feeling of trying to find your home.
But despite the big, Hollywood name “Causeway” was a quieter character study.
Lawrence stars in and produces the film, in which she plays a soldier returning to civilian life in New Orleans. The film also stars Brian Tyree Henry, Linda Emond, Stephen McKinley Henderson and Russell Harvard. “Causeway” is the feature directorial debut of theater veteran Lila Neugebauer, with a script written by Elizabeth Sanders, Luke Goebel and Ottessa Moshfegh.
Her character in the film, Lynsey, is desperate to redeploy. When asked what drove her towards the decision, Lawrence said she found a common ground. “I felt something in my gut when I read this,” she said. “That kind of immediate, ‘We have to make this.’ I identify with that feeling of trying to find your home.
- 9/10/2022
- by William Earl
- Variety Film + TV
. Despite the quiet strength she brought to the “Hunger Games” franchise, and the outlandish joy she mined from the likes of “mother!” and “Red Sparrow,” a long run of dreadful “X-Men” sequels and over-cranked David O. Russell fiascos have dulled one of America’s brightest young movie stars to the point where it’s become easy to forget how good she can be.
If nothing else, the microscopically small but sincerely moving “Causeway” — which the actress also produced under her Excellent Cadaver banner — offers a strong reminder of what Lawrence can bring to the screen when she’s cast as a recognizable human being as opposed to a mutant shapeshifter or a David O. Russell character.
Army Corps engineer Lynsey wanted to leave her hometown so badly she went to Afghanistan; there, she suffered a brain injury that has forced her return. Lawrence’s raw but restrained performance in “Causeway...
If nothing else, the microscopically small but sincerely moving “Causeway” — which the actress also produced under her Excellent Cadaver banner — offers a strong reminder of what Lawrence can bring to the screen when she’s cast as a recognizable human being as opposed to a mutant shapeshifter or a David O. Russell character.
Army Corps engineer Lynsey wanted to leave her hometown so badly she went to Afghanistan; there, she suffered a brain injury that has forced her return. Lawrence’s raw but restrained performance in “Causeway...
- 9/10/2022
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Jennifer Lawrence, who won the Best Actress Oscar for Silver Linings Playbook in 2012 and followed that with a number of hig- profile movies like The Hunger Games series, American Hustle, Passengers, and mother!, hasn’t been seen on screen in a pure leading role since 2018’s Red Sparrow. Last year, she returned as part of the all-star ensemble in Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up, and now she is finally back in a starring turn in the affecting but comparatively small drama Causeway, which had its world premiere today at the Toronto Film Festival.
As a returning veteran who was wounded in Afghanistan, Lawrence gets a chance to once again turn the volume down and deliver a low-key performance minus any hint of some of the flashier roles she has gotten since receiving her breakout first Oscar nomination in 2010’s Winter’s Bone. It is a pleasure to see this immensely...
As a returning veteran who was wounded in Afghanistan, Lawrence gets a chance to once again turn the volume down and deliver a low-key performance minus any hint of some of the flashier roles she has gotten since receiving her breakout first Oscar nomination in 2010’s Winter’s Bone. It is a pleasure to see this immensely...
- 9/10/2022
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
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