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Written and directed by Jason Buxton, “Sharp Corner” (2024) is a slow-burn thriller that shows Ben Foster as a man going through a midlife crisis. Based on Russell Wangersky’s short story, the film presents a rather familiar narrative since we have seen plenty of projects about a man breaking bad in some shape or form. What strikes out the most in Buxton’s film is Foster’s elaborate performance, which makes you sense his slightest emotion to the point you can almost feel his dread crawling down your skin. While it is empathetic, it is also self-aware. So, it becomes an acute portrait of this self-pitying man as it occasionally veers into darkly comedic territory.

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Sharp Corner (2024) Plot Summary & Movie Synopsis:

“Sharp Corner” follows a married man getting increasingly paranoid by the constant accidents on the corner in front of his new home, which gets him farther and farther from his family.

Jason Buxton’s second feature film, Sharp Corner, is a poignant study of human behavior that can often take twisty, dark turns. The film is centered around the McCall family, who had recently moved into the suburbs. Their spacious new house buzzed with possibilities—while Josh planned on turning the backyard into a pitch and putt, Rachel thought it was important that they fix their son’s room to help him with the transition. Max was happy to be living in what he called ‘the mansion,’ but he often felt overwhelmed by the fear of darkness or by the thought of a bear storming into his room. Just when the McCall family was ready to call it a night on their first day there, a car swerved towards the house, and it ran into a tree. An accident on the first night at a new house felt sinister, and it...

While the halls of the multiplex are filled with the sounds of battling superheroes and video game icons and even some 1930s bloodsuckers, here comes a film that “identifies” as a thriller, though it’s really an insightful character study set during a family crisis. Plus, it’s a compelling showcase for one of our most gifted actors, who often brings “more to the plate’ in many recent action flicks. Oh, and he’s paired with an actress who’s best known for her work in a long-running TV sitcom. But she’s not eliciting laughs here as a young mother dealing with the slowly eroding sanity of her spouse, triggered by the purchase of their dream house that borders a road’s very dangerous Sharp Corner.

In the story’s opening moments, the McCall family, Papa Josh (Ben Foster), Mama Rachel (Cobie Smulders), and their adorable “moppet”, seven-year-old Max...

To watch “Sharp Corner” feels akin to witnessing a car crash in slow motion. There’s a bleak inevitability to the proceedings and a cruel voyeuristic streak to how we’re called to not look away.

The comparison is apt, of course, considering how central car accidents are to the tale of an even-keeled suburbanite who becomes needlessly obsessed with stopping (or at the very least helping) the inordinate number of crashes that happen at the treacherous corner street right in front of his new home. Led by an against-type performance from Ben Foster, writer-director Jason Buxton’s languidly paced psychological thriller about domesticity and masculinity may be handsomely mounted but ultimately strikes an all too hollow tone to land its kicker of a final shot.

The promise of a new house is the chance to make a home. That’s what Josh and Rachel (Foster and Cobie Smulders) hope...

Ben Foster is a man with mangling and mutilation on his mind in a new Collider-exclusive clip of the new thriller Sharp Corner. Cobie Smulders also stars in this adaptation of a Russell Wangersky short story, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall. The film, which was shot in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, is set to be released later this year.

In the clip, Foster (Hell or High Water) plays Josh McCall, a man who lives near the sharp corner of the title. It's spelled doom for a number of motorists, and as the clip demonstrates, that hasn't been good for Josh's mental health. He and his wife, Rachel, have some dinner guests over, but Josh can't stop himself from talking about Kyle, a young man who recently perished on the corner. He describes, in gruesome detail, how the car's passenger survived, but the driver was...

Actor plays a father desperate to prove his worth in an entertainingly nasty look at dangers of entitled mediocrity

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: happy family moves into dream home but discovers it’s actually a nightmare.

It’s a set-up so numbingly common that it’s started to border on parody. From smug moving day pizza on the box-strewn floor to hearing louder and louder bumps in the night to arguing over when and how to leave, it’s a descent that’s propped up far too many genre films. At the start of Sharp Corner, which quietly premiered at last year’s Toronto film festival, you’d be forgiven for expecting yet more of the same. But here, the threat is far more unusual and the nature of the unravelling far less predictable, the plot direction mirroring the title before it even comes into view.

You’d have a difficult task trying to find a film released in 2025 more overtly Canadian than “Sharp Corner.” If the opening credits citing producing parties like Telefilm Canada and Crave don’t make it immediately obvious, then director Jason Buxton ensures that the first images we see after the fact do, as a car rolls down a road paved across a densely boreal patch of land, a relentlessly chipper song about sunshine or whatever blasting over the soundtrack.

True to form, the least Canadian thing about “Sharp Corner” is likely what proves to be most recognizable about it, and subsequently the main reason why many will likely queue in: the at-once friendly and quietly sinister mug of one Ben Foster. Indeed, Foster’s name has become one most recognized for its lack of recognition, as the consistent American character actor has remained a fixture of audience “Most Underrated Actors...

Audience favorite character actor Ben Foster has a bunch of intriguing upcoming projects, like a film adaptation of “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” and the action film “Motor City.” And Foster also co-stars alongside Sydney Sweeney in the still-untitled upcoming biopic about female professional boxer Christy Martin, which should hit theaters later this year.

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But before those three films comes “Sharp Corner,” an indie thriller that made the festival rounds last Fall.

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Happy National Canadian Film Day! To celebrate, Evolution Pictures has dropped the trailer for Sharp Corner, a Nova Scotia set film that takes a deeply psychological page out of an early 1990s style of filmmaking, which was popular in Canada at the time.   Ben Foster and Cobie Smulders buy their dream home, only to find out on the first night that the sharp turn in the road is a magnet for car accidents. This causes a huge strain on their marriage, and their parenting, as he makes it his personal obsession to be the hero in the face of bad infrastructure, and save a life -- even if he has to go to ethical extremes to do so. Character studies of seemingly normal Canadians, but...

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"I was there when took his last breath..." Chilling. Vertical has unveiled the trailer for Sharp Corner, a thriller made by Canadian filmmaker Jason Buxton. This first premiered at the 2024 TIFF last year, and it also played at the most recent Rome, Glasgow, and San Francisco Film Festivals. A dedicated family man named Josh becomes obsessed with saving the lives of the car accident victims on the sharp corner in front of his house – an obsession that could cost him everything. A troubled man begins to spiral, consumed by the fatal car crashes caused by the sharp corner in front of his house. As his sick obsession takes hold, he places his wife and son in jeopardy, threatening to permanently break the family apart. Sharp Corner stars Ben Foster, Cobie Smulders, Gavin Drea, & William Kosovic. This obviously should remind anyone of Cronenberg's Crash film, but without the sexual intrigue, thoguh...

In 1996, David Cronenberg introduced audiences to Crash, a psychological drama about a car crash victim who finds himself turned on by car accidents and becomes involved in a sub-culture of like-minded souls. It’s a terrifying premise, and today, filmmaker Jason Buxton gives us another car accident-obsessed individual in the trailer and poster for Sharp Corner, an upcoming thriller starring Ben Foster and Cobie Smulders.

Jason Buxton directs and writes Sharp Corner. It follows Josh McCall(Ben Foster), a troubled man increasingly consumed by the fatal car crashes in front of his house. As Josh’s obsession takes hold, he begins to spiral, placing his wife, Rachel Davis-McCall (Cobie Smulders), and son, Max (William Kosovic), in jeopardy and setting in motion a series of events that threaten to break the family apart permanently.

In Vertical‘s Sharp Corner trailer, Josh witnesses a fatal car crash. As he watches the light leave the driver’s eyes,...

The Dublin Film Festival came to an end at the weekend after one of its most varied programs yet. Guests visiting the event included deep-dive documentary-maker Alexandre O. Philippe, attending with his Texas Chain Saw Massacre meditation Chain Reactions; director Jason Buxton, there with his acclaimed Ben Foster-starring thriller Sharp Corner, soon to be released by Vertical; Albert Serra, supporting his surprise San Sebastian winner Afternoons of Solitude; Palestinian director Elia Suleiman, honored by a curated retrospective; and British ’60s pop-culture icon Twiggy, subject of Sadie Frost’s film of the same name. From closer to home, director Lorcan Finnegan and writer Thomas Martin brought their cult Cannes hit The Surfer, and the UK’s Polly Steele came with Four Letters of Love starring Helena Bonham Carter and Pierce Brosnan.

Under the always assured stewardship of artistic Gráinne Humphreys, the festival took a big swing by opening with The Return,...

Exclusive: Vertical has acquired U.S. rights to Sharp Corner, an indie psychological thriller, starring Ben Foster (Hell or High Water) and Cobie Smulders (How I Met Your Mother), which scored positive reviews out of the Rome Film Festival and TIFF, where the deal was completed.

The film, based on the Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated short story from Russell Wangersky, will be released next spring.

Sharp Corner follows Josh McCall (Foster), a hapless family man, and his wife Rachel (Smulders) as they escape the city for an idyllic country house — the perfect setting to raise their six-year-old son, Max (William Kosovic). But on their first night at home, a fatal car accident disrupts their plans. Rachel would rather erase the event from her memory, but Josh finds himself drawn to the tragedy and becomes obsessed with saving the lives of the car accident victims at the sharp corner in front of his house.

Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon are taking the title of their next film to heart. They’re set to direct the horror-comedy project “Family Movie” and star alongside their children, Travis and Sosie Bacon.

The foursome will produce for Mixed Breed Films alongside Norman Golightly at Dark Castle Entertainment. Neon International will represent the foreign rights and introduce it at AFM this week while CAA Media Finance will represent the U.S. rights.

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Chris Rock will direct and star in Misty Green for MacRo Film Studios and Confluential Films. Neon will commence international sales at the AFM next week.

Based on an original script by Rock, Misty Green follows Misty, who is an undeniably talented actress, but her vices have derailed every attempt to revitalise her career. Her best opportunity in ages arrives in the form of Jordan (Rock), a film director with the perfect role for her – were it not for their contentious past

Additional casting is underway. Peter Rice and Rock will produce alongside James Lopez for MacRo Film Studios and Tommy Oliver for Confluential Films.

Chris Rock is set to direct and star in “Misty Green,” described as a contemporary tale of Hollywood excess and inequity.

Based on an original script by Rock, “Misty Green” follows Misty, an undeniably talented actress whose vices have derailed every attempt to revitalize her career. Her best opportunity in ages arrives in the form of Jordan (Rock), a film director with the perfect role for her — were it not for their contentious past. Additional casting is underway.

Rock and seasoned exec and former Fox head Peter Rice will produce alongside James Lopez for MacRo Film Studios and Tommy Oliver for Confluential Films. Executive producers are Charles D. King for MacRo Film Studios and Codie Elaine Oliver for Confluential Films. Neon International will represent the foreign rights and introduce it at AFM next week while CAA Media Finance will represent the domestic rights.

Rock was last seen on the big...

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Based on a short story by Russell Wangersky, Sharp Corner is a psychological drama that premiered at Toronto International Film Festival on September 6. Jason Buxton adapted the story into a screenplay and made it his second feature film directorial effort, building on his already exciting repertoire. The movie follows Josh, who recently moved into his dream Nova Scotia home with his wife Rachel and son Max only to see that dream turn into a nightmare after a traumatic car crash.

Ben Foster (3:10 to Yuma) captivates the audience with his portrayal of Josh's slow descent into madness as his attempts to save the next victim overtake all aspects of his life. Rather than taking steps to ensure that the tight turn on their street is fixed or made safer in some way, he loses himself in CPR lessons and other efforts to turn himself into a hero.

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Based on Russell Wangerskys short story, Sharp Corner serves as writer-director Jason Buxton's second feature film. The movie, which had its Toronto International Film Festival premiere on September 6, focuses on a literal sharp corner that leads to a series of tragic crashes and takes over the once-normal life of a family man named Josh. He soon gives up even pretending to care about his career and marriage in order to spend his time preventing the next crash, even as his wife begs him to return to reality.

Ben Foster (Hell of High Water) stars in Sharp Corner as Josh, with Cobie Smulders (How I Met Your Mother) playing his wife Rachel. The movie begins by showing their seemingly idyllic life, including their new dream home in Nova Scotia, but the picturesque portrayal is broken when a teenage driver crashes on the corner and into their house.

This will be a short one today, with this minimalist teaser for Jason Buxton's dark character study, Sharp Corner. A family man (Ben Foster) becomes obsessed with saving the lives of the car accident victims on the sharp corner in front of the 'dream home' he just moved into with his wife (Cobie Smulders) and young son. The lack of festival laurels as well as no standard credit block, offers lots of negative space to emphasize the skid marks. The one typographical design concession here is a right-angle line with a broken area which evokes a smashed guard rail. A direct overhead shot suggests a...

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For a film inspired by a Canadian short story, directed by a Canadian filmmaker, and filmed on location in Nova Scotia, it's more than appropriate, after twelve long years, for co-writer/director Jason Buxton's sophomore feature Sharp Corner to have its world premiere at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival. Top-billed by Ben Foster and Cobie Smulders, Sharp Corner is a psychological thriller and dark satire serving as a cautionary tale about control, power, and the fragile nature of contemporary masculinity.

Deadline launched its TIFF portrait studio at the Bisha Hotel on Friday, hosting talent from the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, including actors and filmmakers from the weekend’s lineup.

Opening day guests included The Last Showgirl cast Pamela Anderson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kiernan Shipka, Dave Bautista and Brenda Song; The Cut stars Orlando Bloom and Catriona Balfe; and Went Up the Hill’s Vicky Krieps, Dacre Montgomery and director Samuel Van Grinsven. Chloe Sevigny, Aliocha Schneider, Claes Bang and Nailia Harzoune of Bonjour Tristesse also stopped by, as did Ben Foster and Cobie Smulders of Sharp Corner.

Day 2 featured visits from Unstoppable stars Jennifer Lopez, Don Cheadle, Bobby Cannavale and Jharrel Jerome, as well as the movie’s real-life inspiration Anthony Robles. Naomi Watts stopped by with The Friend writer-director duo Scott McGehee and David Siegel, plus her Great Dane co-star Bing. Amy Adams also posed for a photo with...

The high-concept thriller is a seemingly dying breed. Gone are the days when we would see a suspenseful film with a bare-bones premise and an A-list actor in the lead. Filmmaker Jason Buxton hopes to bring those days back with Sharp Corner, starring Ben Foster (Hell or High Water) and Cobie Smulders (The Avengers). Although Foster is incredible here, the movie itself is somewhat underwhelming, suffering from a bloated length and a lack of development for its themes and characters.

Sharp Corner Review

Sharp Corner follows a family man whose seemingly idyllic home life is thrown into disarray after a series of brutal car crashes happen on his property, causing him to become obsessed with preventing the next fatality. This type of bizarre, darkly comedic thriller is all the rage these days — just see the success of filmmakers like Yorgos Lanthimos — but Jason Buxton’s sophomore feature suffers from being...

Jamie Lee Curtis, Kiernan Shipka, Pamela Anderson, Chole Sevigny, Ben Stiller and more struck a pose at TheWrap’s 2024 TIFF Studio sponsored by Moët & Chandon and Boss Design.

This year’s iteration of the Toronto International Film Festival is playing host to the premieres of the Stiller-fronted comedy “Nutcrackers,” Anderson’s Vegas showgirl drama “The Last Showgirl,” the adaptation “Bonjour Tristesse” and others, and the cast and filmmakers behind these films stopped by TheWrap’s studio for interviews and to post for portraits by photographer O’Shane Howard.

Peruse TheWrap’s TIFF Studio portrait gallery below and check back throughout the festival as we update with more portraits.

Photo by O’Shane Howard

Kiernan Shipka, “The Last Showgirl” at TheWrap TIFF 2024 Portrait Studio.

Photo by O’Shane Howard

Jamie Lee Curtis, “The Last Showgirl” at TheWrap TIFF 2024 Portrait Studio.

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Pamela Anderson, “The Last Showgirl” at TheWrap TIFF 2024 Portrait Studio.

We all have our weird obsessions. The fact that youre reading this review for a (currently) little-known movie, Sharp Corner, also probably means that you may or may not have a major movie obsession. Which isnt too weird. For Josh, the Northern-accented family man that Ben Foster plays in Sharp Corner, he becomes obsessed with death, not in a serial killer way, but in a completely different way. It just sort of happened once he moved into his dream home with his lovely wife and doting young son. It is difficult to even apply one particular genre to writer-director Jason Buxtons new movie. It has some elements of a thriller, and you always feel compelled to find out how everything is going to wrap up. If anything, Sharp Corner plays out like the darkest of dark comedies. Theres nothing laugh-out-funny in the film, but theres something morbidly amusing about where its going.

Men will literally become fixated on car accidents that keep happening on a dangerous road near their new house instead of going to therapy. At least, that’s the case for Ben Foster’s Josh in “Sharp Corner,” an often remarkably well-acted psychological thriller about a pitiful man who can’t stop looking out from his home in the hopes passing cars will crash. It’s a work that serves as yet another strong showcase for Foster, who has been great in standout leading roles in “Leave No Trace” and “Hell or High Water.”

Now this new film from writer-director Jason Buxton (“Blackbird”) gets to where it needs to in one piece (even as its many motor vehicles do not), further proving to be another sturdy character study that is made into something greater by a fantastic Foster.

“Sharp Corner,” which premiered Friday at the Toronto International Film Festival, is...

Maria Hill actor Cobie Smulders confirms whether she's willing to return to the MCU after Secret Invasion if the opportunity ever arises.

Screen Rant interviewed Sharp Corner stars Cobie Smulders and Ben Foster at TIFF. During the interview, Screen Rant asked Smulders if she'll ever appear again in the MCU despite Maria Hill's unexpected Secret Invasion death. Smulders didn't hesitate to confirm her eagerness to reprise her MCU role if Marvel calls her, that is. Read Cobie Smulders' full comments below:

Screen Rant: Despite Maria Hill rudely being killed off in Secret Invasion, would you come back in the flesh if MCU corrects their horrible mistake?

Cobie Smulders: Yeah, sure. Absolutely. When Marvel calls you on the phone, you go. You do the things they ask you to - or at least I do.

Amiable Josh seems on the surface to have the perfect life: accomplished wife (Cobie Smulders), son (William Kosovic) and a new house. Problem is, fatal car accidents happen with some frequency — and quite graphically — in Josh’s front yard, breaking apart his thin veneer of a life. Jason Buxton’s “Sharp Corner” stars Ben Foster as the almost anonymous Josh, the human equivalent of khakis and a white button-down shirt. Buxton imbues the film with tension, and as the likable Foster takes John into increasingly obsessive behavior, the film finds more horror movie elements in the banality of the normal. Foster is busy — he was in Venice to support John Swab’s “King Ivory,” which unspooled in the Horizons Extra section — and calls “King Ivory” “an exploration of import export of fentanyl and the cost of that.”

“Sharp Corner” world premieres Sept. 6 at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival. Neon Intl.

Dakota Johnson and “Hit Man” breakout Adria Arjona will star in a new comedy about navigating an open marriage called “Splitsville” for both Neon and Topic Studios.

“Splitsville” is being directed and written by Michael Covino and also stars both Covino and his writing partner Kyle Marvin, who are reuniting after working together on “The Climb” from 2019.

The film stars Marvin as Carey, who is asked for a divorce by his wife Ashley (Arjona). When Carey seeks advice from his friends Julie (Johnson) and Paul (Covino), he discovers the secret to their happiness is an open marriage. But when Carey tries it for himself with Ashley and winds up crossing the line, it throws all of their relationships into chaos.

Neon will be distributing “Splitsville” in the U.S. with a release in 2025 and production kicking off this fall. But the distributor through its sales arm is also launching international...

The Toronto Film Festival has turned up the star power for its 49th edition, having added the latest movies from Alicia Vikander, Lupita Nyong’o, Steve Coogan, Ralph Fiennes, Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek, Lily James and Riz Ahmed.

For the Gala section at Roy Thomson Hall, there’s world bows for two music specials: the Andrea Bocelli biopic Andrea Bocelli: Because I Believe, a doc about the Italian tenor by director Cosima Spender; and Thom Zimny’s Bruce Springsteen doc for Disney+ and Hulu, Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band. Zimny was in Toronto last year with his Sylvester Stallone documentary Sly for Netflix.

TIFF will also give a first look to Uberto Pasolini’s historical epic The Return, with Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche reteaming after The English Patient. And there’s gala world premieres for Peter Cattaneo’s The Penguin Lessons, toplined by Steve Coogan and...

Exclusive: Neon has hired marketing and publicity veteran Joey Monteiro as EVP, International Marketing and Ashley Hirsch as Manager of International Sales and Marketing. The move further expands the company’s global footprint as it grows its international sales arm headed up by seasoned sales executive Kristen Figeroid.

With a career spanning more than two and a half decades, Monteiro joins Neon from Sierra-Affinity/eOne, where he served as EVP of Marketing and Publicity and was responsible for creative marketing across film markets and festivals as well as international distribution. He handled campaigns on Academy Award-winning titles including: Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive, starring Ryan Gosling; Miles Teller starrer Whiplash; Margot Robbie starrer I, Tonya; Manchester By The Sea with Casey Affleck; and Nightcrawler with Jake Gyllenhaal, among others.

Prior to that, Monteiro worked at Warner Brothers Pictures as Director of Digital Marketing and Lionsgate as SVP of International Marketing,...

Neon Intl. has added to its growing EFM slate with Jason Buxton’s “Sharp Corner,” starring Ben Foster and Cobie Smulders. The company, launched last year as the sales arm of Neon, will launch the project in Berlin.

The under-the-radar feature, now in post-production, is based on the short story from Russell Wangersky’s Giller Prize-shortlisted collection “Whirl Away,” and marks Buxton’s follow up to his debut film, 2012’s ”Blackbird,” which won the best first feature in Toronto and picked up the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes Écrans Juniors.

“Sharp Corner” follows a dedicated family man who becomes obsessed with saving the lives of the car accident victims on the sharp corner in front of his house — an obsession that could cost him everything.

The film, a Canadian-Irish co-production, is produced with the participation of Telefilm Canada, the Canada Media Fund, Screen Nova Scotia, Ontario Creates and in association with Bell Media/Crave.

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WME Independent is pre-selling James Madigan’s “The Beast,” with Samuel L. Jackson in negotiations to star. He’ll play a U.S. president who fights a coup in his battle-ready, bomb-proof limousine with grenades and shotguns. As he rides through a violent wasteland of chaos and unrelenting carnage, he must learn to control The Beast — and the monster inside himself — to save his life, the life of a Secret Service agent (Joel Kinnaman of “Suicide Squad” fame) and his country. Unified Pictures’ Keith Kjarval, Fifth Season, Film 44’s John Logan Pierson and Peter Berg are producing...