Flannel Pajamas

Jeff Lipsky Flannel Pajamas, which premiered in the Dramatic Competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, stars Julianne Nicholson and Justin Kirk as two30-something New Yorkers who meet on a blind date.

Stuart (Kirk) is a study in contrasts – seemingly confident, with ahigh-powered Broadway job that makes full use of his fast-talking smarts, yet clearly lonely and desperately eager for love. Younger and still finding her way, Nicole (Nicholson) is naturally more reticent, coping with city life far from her large and eccentric Montana family.

As Stuart and Nicole progress from love to marriage to discussions about starting a family, their relationship faces the challenges of critical friends, emotionally demanding relatives, time-consuming careers, different religions and the stresses caused by the endless negotiations all couples wage daily. Fearlessly shining a light into both the joyous, sexual, giddy high of love’s beginning, and on into the gradual but inevitable intrusion of the corrosive grind of everyday life, FLANNEL PAJAMAS is that rare film that dares to feature characters than can be as endearing and messy as those that inhabit our real lives. With no easy answers, no heroes or villains, FLANNEL PAJAMAS is a cinematic foray into the mysterious but all-too recognizable terrain of the human heart.

Opens in New York on Wednesday, November 15, 2006