SPRING FORWARD

Year: 1999
USA: IFC Films
Cast: Ned Beatty, Liev Schreiber, Peri Gilpin, Ian Hart, Hallee Hirsh, Catherine Kellner, Bill Raymond, Campbell Scott
Director: Tom Gilroy
Country: USA
USA Rated: R for language and some drug content
USA Release Date: 27 December 2000 (Limited Release - Los Angeles)
USA Release Date: 8 December 2000 (Limited Release - New York)
USA Release Date: January 2001 (Wider release)

Synopsis

SPRING FORWARD chronicles the burgeoning friendship between a young ex-con Paul (Liev Schreiber) and his new work partner Murph (Ned Beatty), a veteran municipal employee facing retirement .The film begins the day Paul is paroled from jail for holding up a Dunkin' Donut in a moment of financial desperation. He gets a fresh start with a parks and recreation job in a small New England town. Unfolding through seven real time episodes set against the backdrop of the changing seasons and shot in sequence over the course of a year, SPRING FORWARD explores the profound way each man changes the other's perspective on life.