FAY GRIM

Year: 2006
USA: Magnolia Pictures
Cast: Parker Posey, Jeff Goldblum, James Urbaniak, Saffron Burrows, Liam Aiken, Elina Löwensohn, Leo Fitzpatrick, Chuck Montgomery,Thomas Jay Ryan, Harald Schrott, Peter Benedict, Jasmin Tabatabai, Anatole Taubman, Nikolai Kinski, DJ Mendel, Megan Gay, John Keogh, Claudia Michelsen, Medhi Nebuh, Jef Bayonne, Jewgenij Sitochin
Director: Hal Hartley
Countries: USA / Germany
USA: 118 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for some crude and sexual humor and language
USA Release Date: 18 May 2007 (Limited Release)

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Synopsis

Fay Grim (Parker Posey), a single mom from Woodside, Queens, is concerned her 14 year old son, Ned (Liam Aiken), will grow up to be like his father, Henry (Thomas Jay Ryan), who has been missing for seven years. Fay's brother Simon (James Urbaniak) is serving ten years in prison for aiding in Henry's escape from the law.

In the quiet of his cell, Simon has had time to think about the tumultuous years of Henry's presence among them - chronicled in Hal Hartley's earlier film HENRY FOOL (1998). He has come to suspect that Henry was not the man he appeared to be. His suspicions are validated when the CIA asks Fay to travel to Paris to retrieve Henry's property. Her mission turns.