Sony Pictures Classics Acquires SXSW Prize Winner 'Wishful Thinking' Starring Pullman and Hawke
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Summary
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired worldwide rights to "Wishful Thinking," the top Narrative Feature jury prize winner from the SXSW Film & TV festival. Directed by Graham Parkes, the romantic dramedy stars Lewis Pullman and Maya Hawke as a couple in therapy who discover that their relationship's ups and downs have supernatural global consequences, including earthquakes and stock market surges.
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Sony Pictures Classics has acquired worldwide rights to 'Wishful Thinking,' the film from director Graham Parkes which won the top Narrative Feature jury prize from SXSW back in March.
Lewis Pullman and Maya Hawke star in the romantic dramedy with a supernatural twist, in which a couple going through couples' therapy find that after meeting mysterious twin healers, the ups and downs of their relationship has legitimate global effects, including causing earthquakes, stock market surges, or the threat of enti
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