Cinematography:
Brett JutkiewiczCast:
Ronald Bronstein, Abel Ferrara, Booch O'Connell, Sean Price Williams, Eleonore Hendricks, Lee Ranaldo, Leah Singer, Sage Ranaldo, Frey Ranaldo, Casey Neistat (more)Plots(1)
Mining the emotional sense memories of their own fractured childhoods, Josh and Benny Safdie craft a by turns empathetic and disquieting portrait of parental dysfunction poised between fierce love and terrifying irresponsibility. Manic Manhattan movie theater projectionist Lenny (cowriter and longtime Safdie collaborator Ronald Bronstein) is perhaps the last person who should be raising kids, yet here he is, trying (and failing) to keep it together as his life unravels over the two whirlwind weeks that he has custody of his young boys (real-life brothers Sage and Frey Ranaldo), with an impromptu road trip, a sleeping-pill mishap, and a night in jail all part of the chaos. Vérité New York naturalism gives way to flights of surreal lyricism in Daddy Longlegs, a blearily impressionistic anti–fairy tale that finds unexpected humanity in the seemingly most irredeemable of fathers. (Criterion)
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Ronald Bronstein
Best movies:
Daddy Longlegs (2009)
Abel Ferrara
USA
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Daddy Longlegs (2009)
Ms .45 (1981)
Black Butterfly (2017)
Booch O'Connell
USA
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Oblivion (2013)
Daddy Longlegs (2009)
True Story (2015)
Sean Price Williams
USA
Best movies:
Daddy Longlegs (2009)
Alexander the Last (2009)
Eleonore Hendricks
USA
Best movies:
Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015)
Daddy Longlegs (2009)
Highway (2002)
Lee Ranaldo
USA
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Daddy Longlegs (2009)
Leah Singer
Best movies:
Daddy Longlegs (2009)
Sage Ranaldo
Best movies:
Daddy Longlegs (2009)
Frey Ranaldo
Best movies:
Daddy Longlegs (2009)
Casey Neistat
USA
Best movies:
Daddy Longlegs (2009)
Nerve (2016)
Project Power (2020)
Van Neistat
Best movies:
Daddy Longlegs (2009)
The Pleasure of Being Robbed (2008)
Marc Raybin
Best movies:
Daddy Longlegs (2009)