Overview
Genre
Drama, ComedyRelease Date
October 12, 2012 (Limited)MPAA Rating
RDuration
85 min.Production Budget
$1 millionsStudio
Sony Pictures ClassicsOfficial Site
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Cast and Crew
Director
James PonsoldtProducer
Jennifer Cochis, Jonathan Schwartz, Andrea SperlingScreenwriter
Susan Burke, James PonsoldtStarring
- Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Kate Hannah
- Aaron Paul as Charlie Hannah
- Octavia Spencer as Jenny
- Nick Offerman
- Megan Mullally as Principal Barnes
- Mary Kay Place
- Kyle Gallner as Owen Hannah
- Bree Turner
- Mackenzie Davis
- Richmond Arquette
Story
When we first meet functioning alcoholic Kate Hannah (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), she's already close to rock bottom. She takes a shot of whiskey to brace herself for a day of teaching first grade. When she vomits at school, a student asks if she's pregnant. Desperate to disguise her hangover, she lies and says she is. It's a deception that could cost her her career, but also save her life.
James Ponsoldt's Smashed traces its heroine's downward spiral - from smoking crack in a drunken lapse of judgment to an outrageous episode in a convenience store - with insight, daring and profound empathy. While things may seem overwhelmingly bleak for Kate, relief is in sight. Dave (Nick Offerman), the vice-principal at Kate's school, sees through her act and confesses that he's also a recovering addict and wants to help. He has a crush on her as well, which complicates his motives. Dave convinces Kate to try a twelve-step program, where she meets Jenny (The Help's Octavia Spencer), who volunteers to be her sponsor. Kate begins to accept this new path as her sole option. There's only one problem: Kate's husband Charlie (Aaron Paul) still enjoys getting drunk. How can she do this without him?
