EXCLUSIVE: Paul Sparks, Kate Burton, Xander Berkeley and Rhys Coiro lead the cast of Melissa Miller Costanzo’s A Great Depression, which has just wrapped in New Jersey.
The film follows Mark Turner (Sparks), the heir and chairman of his family’s billion-dollar company, as he struggles to reclaim his life after battling depression. As his world begins to fracture, the line between imagination, ambition and self-destruction becomes blurred, in what the filmmakers told Deadline will be an emotionally charged portrait of resilience, identity and recovery.
Costanzo’s previous films include Run, starring Sarah Levy, Phillipa Soo and Adam Pally, and her debut feature All These Small Moments, which premiered at Tribeca. She co-wrote A Great Depression with Jenny Halper.
“A Great Depression is one man’s true story about his journey through and beyond depression,” Costanzo said of her new film. “With its injection of magical realism and heightened reality, my hope is that this project will help reduce the stigma surrounding mental illness and treatments like ECT without ever feeling like a lecture.”
Alongside Sparks (The Night Of), Burton (Scandal), Berkeley (24) and Coiro (Entourage), the film will star Annie Parisse, Michael Oberholtzer, Megan Ferguson, Emily Tremaine, Sophia Bunnell, Malachi Weir, Jack Ball, Michael Gaston and Alysia Reiner, who round out the cast.
Curious Gremlin (The Testament Of Ann Lee) in association with MAP Creative Ventures are the production banners on the indie movie. It is produced by Scott Aharoni, Sinan Eczacibasi and Alihan Yalcindag of Curious Gremlin, alongside Matt Jensen, Alex Peace Power, Paul Steiner and Costanzo.
Eric Buttelman is co-producer. Executive producers are Mark Litzsinger, Britt Power and Ryan Asher.
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