• Collateral Beauty

  • Allan Loeb
  • Produced
  • Drama
  • 2015
  • Hit List
  • 74.9
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Market: Fri, 20 Mar 2015Sold: Tue, 09 Jun 2015
Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Actor: Will Smith, Rooney Mara, Jason Segel
Producer: Allan Loeb, Bard Dorros, Michael Sugar, Kevin Frakes
AgentCarin Sage, Craig Brody, Rick Lefitz, Jon Levin, Peter Micelli, Roeg Sutherland (CAA)
ManagerBard Dorros, Michael Sugar (Anonymous Content)
FinancierPalmStar Media
ProductionLikely Story, Overbrook, Scarlet Fire
After a NY advertising executive experiences a deep personal tragedy, his co-workers concoct a plan to snap him out of his grief – which works, but not in a way that anyone could have expected.
A New York executive's life is put on hold after a tragedy that forces him to look hard into life's three most important figures: Death, Time, and Love.
Three employees hire actors to make their boss seem crazy in order to sell the company, but wind up learning something themselves.
A depressed man refuses to sell his share of an agency, while his partner and colleagues are thirsty for the millionaire deal. To get him out of the way, the group creates an elaborate plan to prove the man is unstable and close the deal without him.
Film
Film, Drama, Holiday, Mental Illness, Actor, Death, Fatherhood, Grief, Illness, Parenthood
111
PG-13
Medium
M
Unspecified
40
Average
Gaslight A Christmas Carol Ordinary People A Midsummer Night's Dream
Present Day/A few weeks
Publicity agency, theater, helipad, hospital, NY streets, middle/upper class house and apartments, dog park, school
Lonely and depressed after his 6-year-old daughter’s death, HOWARD INLET (40s) builds domino mazes in his office. His co-workers, WHIT YARDSHAM (40s), CLAIRE WILSON (30s) and SIMON SCHOTT (30s), observe him worried. He needs help, but will not accept any. The colleagues worry even more when an amazing deal to sell the agency they are at comes about, but Howard is the major partner and refuses to sell or engage in the business.

As they head to their own offices, Simon's coughing blood, Claire's looking at dating websites and trying not to look 30 and Whit is having a heated discussion with his ex-wife and daughter via message.

When Whit leaves the office and wanders in the Christmas-lit streets of New York city, a woman catches his attention. So beautiful he is attracted immediately and follows her into a theatre. He observes as she groups with actors on stage. He introduces himself and discovers this is AIMEE MOORE, MORTY and BAILEY, actors trying to put on a play. Whit promises to be back and see Aimee.

Whit meets with Claire and Simon and confesses he has hired a private investigator, SALLY PRICE (40s), to follow Howard in the attempt of...