A Sort Of Homecoming - new film by Allison Anders - Brief Article

Film Comment, Nov, 2000

Following a 17-day shoot this past summer, Allison Anders is nearing completion on her widescreen DV feature Things Behind the Sun, co-written with Sugar Town partner Kurt Voss. Set in the Cocoa Beach, Fla., neighborhood where Anders spent her formative years, the film stars Gabriel Mann (High Art) as a music journalist who returns to his hometown to interview a self-destructive local musician (star-waiting-to-happen Kim Dickens).

Don Cheadle, Rosanna Arquette, Elizabeth Pena and Eric Stoltz have small supporting roles. Anders, who hopes to finish in time for Sundance, was initally skeptical about DY. "It was really a struggle to not have it look like Cops, but ultimately I came around.