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Capsized Interview: Lindsey Ryan – “It’s come at a time where audiences are craving these types of movies”.

Filmmaking can be a challenge at the best of times so to craft your feature debut mostly on a boat with an ensemble cast displays real ambition. This was the task ahead of NY-based director Lindsey Ryan who has brought her comedy drama Capsized to premiere at Edinburgh International Film Festival. It stars Lily Rabe and Rhys Ifans and follows a hard-up Irish-American family who are facing eviction so they take an abrupt vacation on their houseboat. I was fortunate enough to sit down with the director to discuss the piece…

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Film review: Capsized

This year we’ve already seen Odysseus charter choppy waters to get home on the biggest of screens and in the feature debut from NY-based director Lindsey Ryan, a hard-up Irish-American family plead with Poseidon for good fortune at sea. Loosely inspired by the filmmaker’s own upbringing, comedy drama Capsized follows Diane (Lily Rabe), her husband (Rhy Ifans), their daughter Nicole (Sarah Catherine Hook), son Pat (Griffin Gluck) and the rest of their kids as they take an impromptu vacation on their houseboat. Reeling from the discovery of an eviction notice, they enter a potentially lucrative fishing competition in the hope of turning their luck around.

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