Since Joel Schumacher’s “Twelve” is looking to be thoroughly terrible, Chace Crawford is hoping that joining the forthcoming indie drama “Peace, Love & Misunderstanding” will be the cred boost his career needs.
Also starring Catherine Keener and Jane Fonda, the film “centers on Diane, a conservative lawyer (Keener) who, after her husband leaves her, takes her son and daughter to the house of their estranged, hippie grandmother (Fonda) in Woodstock. What was meant to be a stress-free getaway quickly turns into a reminder of why Diane escaped her mother’s hippie lifestyle in the first place. Crawford will play a war-protesting butcher who catches the eye of Diane’s politically active and intellectual daughter.” SWOON! But, hey, wait a minute…..didn’t Fonda play this same kinda role in “Georgia Rule” just a couple of years ago?
Anyway, the film is set to be directed by Bruce Beresford (“Driving Miss Daisy”) which probably means his period-set film about early computer programmer Ada Lovelace with Zooey Deschanel attached is on the backburner. That’s too bad because it sounds infinitely more interesting than this film.
Beresford’s most recent effort is the based-on-a-true-story tear-jerking flag-waving dance drama “Mao’s Last Dancer.” The film has already opened in Canada and is set for a U.S. release later this year. You can watch the trailer below.