The spiritual kin of The Brothers McMullen had their day instead. The short take on 2000's festival going in, and coming out, was that it didn't quite measure up, that it contained a lot of solid fare but little of the extraordinary. That's how a vicious cycle begins. Studios don't want to again invest massive amounts of money in financially unsafe films. Filmmakers don't want to make films with no chance of being picked up.
Content tailored to commerce becomes increasingly common.
This screenwriter Kenneth Lonergan, shared top dramatic honors. A thoughtful, funny, well-acted film starring Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, and Matthew Broderick, it's both impossible to dislike and the furthest possible thing from revolutionary. Those looking for alternatives didn't need to look far. As a smaller festival with fewer slots for films, it's also somewhat paradoxically tougher to get into, both for audiences and filmmakers, but from all evidence generally worth it for both. Finding it is.