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Directed by
  
Nicholas Gray

Initial release
  
2015

Written by
  
Nicholas Gray

Editor
  
Ariel Roubinov

9/10
IMDb

Music by
  
Carl Cheeseman

Director
  
Nicholas Gray

Cinematography
  
Richard 'Rico' Sands

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Produced by
  
Jonathan Gray John Grossman Bonnie Timmermann

Screenplay by
  
Nicholas Gray Katharine Clark Gray

Based on
  
516 by Katharine Clark Gray

Starring
  
Stef Dawson Penn Badgley Richard Kind

Cast
  
Penn Badgley, Stef Dawson, Richard Kind

Similar
  
If You Could Say It in Words, Creedmoria, Debating Robert Lee, The Lennon Report, Greetings from Tim Buckley

The Paper Store is a 2016 drama film directed by Nicholas Gray, and written by Gray and Katharine Clark Gray, adapted from the latter's play 516. The film is produced by Jonathan Gray, John Grossman (NYPS), and casting director Bonnie Timmermann and stars Stef Dawson, Penn Badgley, and Richard Kind.

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Synopsis

A revenge tale about a former college student who forges essays for money, the grad student who becomes her lover, and the professor who discovers their scheme.

Cast

  • Stef Dawson as Annalee Monegan
  • Penn Badgley as Sigurd Rossdale
  • Richard Kind as Professor Marty Kane
  • Clifton Dunn as Hooper
  • Caitlin Mehner as Emily
  • Kenton Cummings as Reynaldo
  • Production

    The Paper Store is a film adaptation of Katharine Clark Gray's play 516 (five-sixteen), workshopped at the New York International Fringe Festival in 2007, with four out of five stars on Time Out (magazine). 516 received its first professional debut through Philadelphia Theater Workshop in 2010, culminating in plans to adapt the play into a film shortly thereafter.

    Katharine and her husband, Nicholas Gray, were producing partners at A Chip & A Chair Films (If You Could Say It In Words) for eight years before branching off to create Uncompromised Creative. The company partnered with producers Jonathan Gray, Bonnie Timmermann, John Grossman, executive producer Bruce Meyerson, and co-executive producers Actium Pictures and Matthew Bronson, to make The Paper Store, Uncompromised Creative's feature debut.

    Filming took place in New York City and Syracuse, NY.

    Reception

  • Named Best Drama of 2016 by the LA Film Review. The review called the script "expertly adapted" from its source material, and declared that the film "gives us a world that is far from black and white — one where it’s really easy to claim high standards, while simultaneously betraying them with the most plausible of explanations."
  • The Manchester Evening News named The Paper Store as one of the "six best films you have to see" of the Manchester Film Festival, and FranklyMyDear UK described it as "the ultimate tale of romance and revenge set in academia."
  • The Film Stage said that "few narrative films have touched on [the rising cost of higher education] so pointedly or deftly as The Paper Store".
  • Accolades

    2016
  • Manchester International Film Festival, with a Jury Special Mention for Lead Actor (Penn Badgley).
  • Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival
  • Manhattan Film Festival - named Best Dramatic Feature
  • Oxford International Film Festival official awarded Best Actress to Stef Dawson and Best Actor to Penn Badgley
  • New Filmmakers NY
  • Fort Worth Indie Film Showcase - won Best Foreign Drama, "foreign" referring to productions outside Texas
  • Pittsburgh Independent Film Festival
  • Location

  • The interiors of all three leads' homes were shot on the re-decorated apartment sets from Broad City (2014).
  • Shortly after filming The Paper Store, Richard Kind and Stef Dawson costarred again in The Lennon Report.
  • References

    The Paper Store Wikipedia


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