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To Morgan Overton, the primary goal of the newly-formed career training program CREATE PA: Film & Theater Works! is both fully attainable and urgently needed.
“We want to expand what training means for folks who want to contribute their skills and talents to film, theater and entertainment,” Overton says. “CREATE PA is an investment in the people who make these stories come to life. These are all the folks who are the unsung heroes behind the scenes. We want to find them and let them know this is a profession where you can stay home in Pittsburgh.”
Overton, 29, was hired in May by Pittsburgh Public Theater to serve as the workforce director of CREATE PA, an innovative job training initiative undertaken by the theater and the Pittsburgh Film Office, with the intent to provide a steady supply of on-site technical workers for Pittsburgh-based film and stage productions.
Those would be the workers listed in the credits at the end of a movie and on the back pages of playbills — carpenters and electricians, set builders and decorators, makeup and hair stylists, grips and costumers, even animation and accounting staff — the “unsung heroes behind the scenes,” without whom the bulk of commercial live and filmed entertainment could not be produced.
While their names may be listed in small print, creative sector workers make a sizable contribution to the Pennsylvania economy. According to a 2021 U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis report from the U.S. Department of Commerce, arts and culture production brings in $28.6 billion to Commonwealth coffers and employs more than 165,000 full-time workers who benefit from $14 billion in compensation.
In Allegheny County, the latest available report from Americans for the Arts in 2017 cites more than 32,000 full-time local arts and culture jobs accounting for $641 million in household income.
CREATE PA is a potentially transformative investment boosting the state’s growing creative economy and has received $675,000 in first-year funding from the Richard King Mellon Foundation, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, and the Allegheny County Gaming Economic Development Tourism Fund.
Taught by experienced IATSE union members, CREATE PA classes are tuition-free, and each trainee is paid a stipend to participate. Upon graduation, trainees automatically qualify for placement on the permit list for local union film and stage productions.
Recent graduates of the pilot Pittsburgh Film Works program the Pittsburgh Film Office started in 2022 shared their observations online.
Registration for CREATE PA classes is available online.
A Penn Hills native, Overton most recently served as manager with the City of Pittsburgh’s Office of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access following a two-year stint as a community engagement and policy associate with the Jewish Healthcare Foundation.
Overton’s Bachelor of Science degree in psychology from the University of Pittsburgh and master’s degree in social work in community organization and social action led her to a decade of volunteer and intern work with Obama for America, Young Democrats of Allegheny County, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and Pittsburgh City Council. She is currently serving her first term as vice chair of the Allegheny County Democratic Committee.
She’s also a skilled visual artist, whose design and drawing talents would unquestionably land her in CREATE PA classes, if she was not already administering them.
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NEXTpittsburgh: How has the response been following the initial announcement of CREATE PA?
Morgan Overton: Very exciting. In the first two weeks, almost 200 people signed up and said, “Hey, count me in; keep me posted on what’s going on.”
NEXTpittsburgh: What’s been the general age range of respondents?
Overton: From teenagers to people in their 60s. I created a follow-up survey to kind of unpeel the layer of who these people are and why do they want to do this. And people have so much eagerness of, “How do I contribute to make this come to life?”
NEXTpittsburgh: It sounds like there are a lot of people who have wanted this training but didn’t know where to find it in our area.
Overton: That’s one thing that sets CREATE PA apart. When people think of workforce development, they tend to think of the traditional mindset of an institution that has all the skills teaching the people on the ground. Rather, it’s the other way around — the people have the talent and the skills we’re nourishing, so that with CREATE PA training, they can do gig work and be sustained, and they don’t have to go to New York. They don’t have to go to L.A. We want Pittsburgh to be the landmark place where talent stays to thrive.
NEXTpittsburgh: You yourself are a very prolific painter in multiple media — watercolor, oil, acrylic. How long have you been involved in that?
Overton: Ever since I could blink. I’m very lucky to have parents who poured into me and said, “Let’s just see what sticks with Morgan” — and everything stuck! I always had creative things at my disposal, and art classes were the first thing I took. I was in band. I danced ballet. When I went to the University of Pittsburgh for undergrad, I majored in psychology because I thought I wanted to be a scientist, which did lead me to work at Boston Children’s Hospital for two years in the cognitive neuroscience lab. But I also wanted to keep the art element a part of my life, so I minored in art at Pitt. That’s where I was formally trained in the fundamentals of painting, drawing, design.
NEXTpittsburgh: Your artwork was recently exhibited in the U.S. Capitol Building.
Overton: Yes, the last week of April. I was invited by New Jersey Senator Cory Booker to honor the contributions of Black women across history, present and future, and uplift the movement to name April as International Black Women’s History Month. I Stand on Their Shoulders featured several of my paintings placed around the first floor of the rotunda in the Russell Senate Office Building.
NEXTpittsburgh: You’ve created a lot of memorable portraits of political changemakers like James Baldwin, Angela Davis, Shirley Chisholm, Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Kamala Harris.
Overton: Art has been a means for me to amplify my people and our history, our present, our future.
NEXTpittsburgh: Your portrait of Antwon Rose II is especially compelling.
Overton: I did that in 2019 with his mother’s permission, to honor him and his humanity. For me, that was the moment I realized art really is a platform for activism. It is a way to give language to people who might not have the words, but they see something and they start to understand, “OK, this is the story. This is the humanity of what this person is trying to convey through oil paint, through watercolor.”
NEXTpittsburgh: Beyond the always welcome investment in local arts and the people creating them, are there other important results that might come from CREATE PA?
Overton: We have to think about the arts as a critical piece to economic development to sustain communities. The goal is to grow and diversify the creative workforce and make sure we’re centering the communities who feel shut out, like the doors are just cemented, right? Women, Black people, brown people, people of color, LGBTQ+ communities, people with disabilities, low-income communities. They are critical assets to what sustains a community and what allows it to thrive.
It takes a person to be a door. That’s something my dad always says, and I am so grateful to have Shaunda McDill, the managing director at Pittsburgh Public Theater, and Dawn Keezer, director of the Pittsburgh Film Office. I want to make sure I speak their names because they are two dynamos who believe in this work and are making it come to life.
If we don’t make those opportunities accessible for folks, then they’re going to look elsewhere. I know that was me when I left Pittsburgh after completing my undergrad studies. I felt like there was nothing here for me. While in reality, everything that could have been for me was over here, but I had no idea to look in that direction.
Features and series filmed in Pittsburgh that you can watch for free with a streaming subscription:
Abduction (2011)
available with a Hulu subscription
“A thriller centered on a young man who sets out to uncover the truth about his life after finding his baby photo on a missing persons website.”
starring Taylor Lautner
Adventureland (2009)
available on Hulu with the Starz extension
“In the summer of 1987, a college graduate takes a ‘nowhere’ job at his local amusement park, only to find it’s the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.”
starring Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, and Ryan Reynolds
All the Right Moves (1983)
available on Hulu with a Cinemax extension
“A high school football player desperate for a scholarship and his headstrong coach clash in a dying Pennsylvania steel town.”
starring Tom Cruise
Banshee (2013)
available on Hulu with a Cinemax extension
“An ex-con assumes the identity of a murdered sheriff in the small town of Banshee, Pennsylvania, where he has some unfinished business.”
starring Antony Starr, Ivana Milicevic, and Ulrich Thomsen
Concussion (2015)
available on Sony Crackle
“In Pittsburgh, accomplished pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu uncovers the truth about brain damage in football players who suffer repeated concussions in the course of normal play.”
starring Will Smith, Alec Baldwin, and Albert Brooks
Fathers and Daughters (2015)
available with a Hulu subscription
“A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.”
starring Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, and Aaron Paul
Flashdance (1983)
available on Hulu with the Showtime extension
“A Pittsburgh woman with two jobs as a welder and an exotic dancer wants to get into ballet school.”
starring Jennifer Beals
Foxcatcher (2014)
available on Sony Crackle
“U.S. Olympic wrestling champions and brothers Mark Schultz and Dave Schultz join “Team Foxcatcher”, led by eccentric multi-millionaire John du Pont, as they train for the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, but John’s self-destructive behavior threatens to consume them all.”
starring Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, and Mark Ruffalo
I Am Not Okay With This (2020)
available with a Netflix subscription
“Sydney is a teenage girl navigating the trials and tribulations of high school while dealing with the complexities of her family, her budding sexuality, and mysterious superpowers just beginning to awaken deep within her.”
starring Sophia Lillis, Wyatt Oleff, and Sofia Bryant
I Am Number Four (2011)
available on Vudu
“Aliens and their Guardians are hiding on Earth from intergalactic bounty hunters. They can only be killed in numerical order, and Number Four is next on the list. This is his story.”
starring Alex Pettyfer
Innocent Blood (1992)
available on Hulu with the Starz extension
“Marie is a vampire with a thirst for bad guys. When she fails to properly dispose of one of her victims, a violent mob boss, she bites off more than she can chew and faces a new, immortal danger.”
starring Anne Parillaud, Anthony LaPaglia, and Robert Loggia
Inspector Gadget (1999)
available with a Disney+ subscription
“A security guard’s dreams come true when he is selected to be transformed into a cybernetic police officer.”
starring Matthew Broderick
Kingpin (1996)
available on Sony Crackle and Tubi
“A star bowler whose career was prematurely “cut off” hopes to ride a new prodigy to success and riches.”
starring Woody Harrelson, Randy Quaid, and Bill Murray
Last Flag Flying (2017)
available with Amazon Prime Video
“Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corpsman Larry “Doc” Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller, to bury his son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War.”
starring Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne, and Steve Carell
Lorenzo’s Oil (1992)
available on Hulu with the Starz extension
“A boy develops a disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his father decides to learn all about it and tackle the problem himself.”
Starring Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, and Peter Ustinov
Manhunt: Deadly Games (2020)
available on Spectrum TV
“A new installment of the acclaimed series, this season will chronicle one of the largest and most complex manhunts on U.S. soil—the search for the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Park Bomber—and the media firestorm that consumed the life of Richard Jewell in its wake. With their legacies on the line and divisions within communities stoked, investigators must choose what is most important to defend—their reputations or the truth.”
starring Cameron Britton
Mindhunter (2017-2019)
available with a Netflix subscription
“Set in the late 1970s, two FBI agents are tasked with interviewing serial killers to solve open cases.”
starring Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany, and Anna Torv
My Bloody Valentine (2009)
available on Hulu with the Starz extension
“Tom returns to his hometown on the tenth anniversary of the Valentine’s night massacre that claimed the lives of 22 people. Instead of a homecoming, Tom finds himself suspected of committing the murders, and it seems like his old flame is the only one that believes he’s innocent.”
starring Jensen Ackles, Jaime King, Kerr Smith
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
available on Tubi
“A ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a bloodthirsty, flesh-eating breed of monsters who are ravaging the East Coast of the United States.”
starring Duane Jones, Judith O’Dea, Karl Hardman
Out of the Furnace (2013)
available on Hulu with the Starz extension
“When Rodney Baze mysteriously disappears and law enforcement doesn’t follow through fast enough, his older brother, Russell, takes matters into his own hands to find justice.”
starring Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, and Zoe Saldana
Outsiders (2016-2017)
available with a Hulu subscription
“A story of struggle for power set in the rugged and mysterious hills of Appalachia.”
starring David Morse, Ryan Hurst, and Kyle Gallner
Promised Land (2012)
available on Hulu with the Starz extension
“A salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources.”
starring Matt Damon, Frances McDormand, and John Krasinski
She’s Out of my League (2010)
available on Sony Crackle
“An average Joe meets the perfect woman, but his lack of confidence and the influence of his friends and family begin to pick away at the relationship.”
starring Jay Baruchel, Alice Eve, and T.J. Miller
Smart People (2008)
available with a Netflix subscription
“Into the life of a widowed professor comes a new love and an unexpected visit from his adopted brother.”
starring Dennis Quaid, Thomas Haden Church, and Sarah Jessica Parker
Sorority Row (2009)
available on Tubi
“A group of sorority sisters try to cover up the death of their house-sister after a prank gone wrong, only to be stalked by a serial killer.”
starring Briana Evigan, Rumer Willis, and Carrie Fisher
Striking Distance (1993)
available on Sony Crackle
“Coming from a police family, Tom Hardy ends up fighting his uncle after the murder of his father. Tom believes the killer is another cop and goes on the record with his allegations. Demoted then to river duty, the killer taunts Tom.”
starring Bruce Willis, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Dennis Farina
The Lifeguard (2013)
available on Sony Crackle and Tubi
“A former valedictorian quits her reporter job in New York and returns to the place she last felt happy: her childhood home in Connecticut. She gets work as a lifeguard and starts a dangerous relationship with a troubled teenager.”
starring Kristen Bell, Mamie Gummer, and Martin Starr
The Mothman Prophecies (2002)
available on Sony Crackle
“A reporter is drawn to a small West Virginia town to investigate a series of strange events, including psychic visions and the appearance of bizarre entities.”
starring Richard Gere, Laura Linney, and David Eigenberg
The Next Three Days (2010)
available with a Hulu subscription
“A married couple’s life is turned upside down when the wife is accused of a murder.”
starring Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, and Liam Neeson
Unstoppable (2010)
available on Hulu with the Cinemax extension
“With an unmanned, half-mile-long freight train barreling toward a city, a veteran engineer and a young conductor race against the clock to prevent a catastrophe.”
starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, and Rosario Dawson
Warrior (2011)
available with a Hulu subscription
“The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he’s trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament – a path that puts the fighter on a collision course with his estranged, older brother”
starring Tom Hardy, Nick Nolte, and Joel Edgerton
Where’d You Go Bernadette (2019)
available with a Hulu subscription
“A loving mom becomes compelled to reconnect with her creative passions after years of sacrificing herself for her family. Her leap of faith takes her on an epic adventure that jump-starts her life and leads to her triumphant rediscovery.”
starring Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, and Emma Nelson
Wonder Boys (2000)
available on Sony Crackle
“An English Professor tries to deal with his wife leaving him, the arrival of his editor who has been waiting for his book for seven years, and the various problems that his friends and associates involve him in.”
starring Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, and Frances McDormand
Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)
available with a Netflix subscription
“Lifelong platonic friends Zack and Miri look to solve their respective cash-flow problems by making an adult film together. As the cameras roll, however, the duo begin to sense that they may have more feelings for each other than they previously thought.”
starring Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, and Craig Robinson
*This information is current as of 3/23/2020.
Features and series filmed in Pittsburgh that you can watch for free with a streaming subscription or service:
Abduction (2011)
available with a Hulu subscription
“A thriller centered on a young man who sets out to uncover the truth about his life after finding his baby photo on a missing persons website.”
starring Taylor Lautner
Adventureland (2009)
available on Hulu with the Starz extension
“In the summer of 1987, a college graduate takes a ‘nowhere’ job at his local amusement park, only to find it’s the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.”
starring Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, and Ryan Reynolds
All the Right Moves (1983)
available on Hulu with a Cinemax extension
“A high school football player desperate for a scholarship and his headstrong coach clash in a dying Pennsylvania steel town.”
starring Tom Cruise
Banshee (2013)
available on Hulu with a Cinemax extension
“An ex-con assumes the identity of a murdered sheriff in the small town of Banshee, Pennsylvania, where he has some unfinished business.”
starring Antony Starr, Ivana Milicevic, and Ulrich Thomsen
Concussion (2015)
available on Sony Crackle
“In Pittsburgh, accomplished pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu uncovers the truth about brain damage in football players who suffer repeated concussions in the course of normal play.”
starring Will Smith, Alec Baldwin, and Albert Brooks
Fathers and Daughters (2015)
available with a Hulu subscription
“A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.”
starring Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, and Aaron Paul
Flashdance (1983)
available on Hulu with the Showtime extension
“A Pittsburgh woman with two jobs as a welder and an exotic dancer wants to get into ballet school.”
starring Jennifer Beals
Foxcatcher (2014)
available on Sony Crackle
“U.S. Olympic wrestling champions and brothers Mark Schultz and Dave Schultz join “Team Foxcatcher”, led by eccentric multi-millionaire John du Pont, as they train for the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, but John’s self-destructive behavior threatens to consume them all.”
starring Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, and Mark Ruffalo
I Am Not Okay With This (2020)
available with a Netflix subscription
“Sydney is a teenage girl navigating the trials and tribulations of high school while dealing with the complexities of her family, her budding sexuality, and mysterious superpowers just beginning to awaken deep within her.”
starring Sophia Lillis, Wyatt Oleff, and Sofia Bryant
I Am Number Four (2011)
available on Vudu
“Aliens and their Guardians are hiding on Earth from intergalactic bounty hunters. They can only be killed in numerical order, and Number Four is next on the list. This is his story.”
starring Alex Pettyfer
Innocent Blood (1992)
available on Hulu with the Starz extension
“Marie is a vampire with a thirst for bad guys. When she fails to properly dispose of one of her victims, a violent mob boss, she bites off more than she can chew and faces a new, immortal danger.”
starring Anne Parillaud, Anthony LaPaglia, and Robert Loggia
Inspector Gadget (1999)
available with a Disney+ subscription
“A security guard’s dreams come true when he is selected to be transformed into a cybernetic police officer.”
starring Matthew Broderick
Kingpin (1996)
available on Sony Crackle and Tubi
“A star bowler whose career was prematurely “cut off” hopes to ride a new prodigy to success and riches.”
starring Woody Harrelson, Randy Quaid, and Bill Murray
Last Flag Flying (2017)
available with Amazon Prime Video
“Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corpsman Larry “Doc” Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller, to bury his son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War.”
starring Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne, and Steve Carell
Lorenzo’s Oil (1992)
available on Hulu with the Starz extension
“A boy develops a disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his father decides to learn all about it and tackle the problem himself.”
Starring Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, and Peter Ustinov
Manhunt: Deadly Games (2020)
available on Spectrum TV
“A new installment of the acclaimed series, this season will chronicle one of the largest and most complex manhunts on U.S. soil—the search for the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Park Bomber—and the media firestorm that consumed the life of Richard Jewell in its wake. With their legacies on the line and divisions within communities stoked, investigators must choose what is most important to defend—their reputations or the truth.”
starring Cameron Britton
Mindhunter (2017)
available with a Netflix subscription
“Set in the late 1970s, two FBI agents are tasked with interviewing serial killers to solve open cases.”
starring Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany, and Anna Torv
My Bloody Valentine (2009)
available on Hulu with the Starz extension
“Tom returns to his hometown on the tenth anniversary of the Valentine’s night massacre that claimed the lives of 22 people. Instead of a homecoming, Tom finds himself suspected of committing the murders, and it seems like his old flame is the only one that believes he’s innocent.”
starring Jensen Ackles, Jaime King, Kerr Smith
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
available on Tubi
“A ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a bloodthirsty, flesh-eating breed of monsters who are ravaging the East Coast of the United States.”
starring Duane Jones, Judith O’Dea, Karl Hardman
Out of the Furnace (2013)
available on Hulu with the Starz extension
“When Rodney Baze mysteriously disappears and law enforcement doesn’t follow through fast enough, his older brother, Russell, takes matters into his own hands to find justice.”
starring Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, and Zoe Saldana
Outsiders (2016-2017)
available with a Hulu subscription
“A story of struggle for power set in the rugged and mysterious hills of Appalachia.”
starring David Morse, Ryan Hurst, and Kyle Gallner
Promised Land (2012)
available on Hulu with the Starz extension
“A salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources.”
starring Matt Damon, Frances McDormand, John Krasinski
She’s Out of my League (2012)
available on Sony Crackle
“An average Joe meets the perfect woman, but his lack of confidence and the influence of his friends and family begin to pick away at the relationship.”
starring Jay Baruchel, Alice Eve, and T.J. Miller
Smart People (2008)
available with a Netflix subscription
“Into the life of a widowed professor comes a new love and an unexpected visit from his adopted brother.”
starring Dennis Quaid, Thomas Haden Church, and Sarah Jessica Parker
Sorority Row (2009)
available on Tubi
“A group of sorority sisters try to cover up the death of their house-sister after a prank gone wrong, only to be stalked by a serial killer.”
starring Briana Evigan, Rumer Willis, and Carrie Fisher
Striking Distance (1993)
available on Sony Crackle
“Coming from a police family, Tom Hardy ends up fighting his uncle after the murder of his father. Tom believes the killer is another cop and goes on the record with his allegations. Demoted then to river duty, the killer taunts Tom.”
starring Bruce Willis, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Dennis Farina
Sudden Death (1995)
available on Hulu with the Starz extension
“A former fireman takes on a group of terrorists holding the Vice President and others hostage during the seventh game of the NHL Stanley Cup finals.”
starring Jean-Claude Van Damme
The Lifeguard (2013)
available on Sony Crackle and Tubi
“A former valedictorian quits her reporter job in New York and returns to the place she last felt happy: her childhood home in Connecticut. She gets work as a lifeguard and starts a dangerous relationship with a troubled teenager.”
starring Kristen Bell, Mamie Gummer, and Martin Starr
The Mothman Prophecies (2002)
available on Sony Crackle
“A reporter is drawn to a small West Virginia town to investigate a series of strange events, including psychic visions and the appearance of bizarre entities.”
starring Richard Gere, Laura Linney, and David Eigenberg
The Next Three Days (2010)
available with a Hulu subscription
“A married couple’s life is turned upside down when the wife is accused of a murder.”
starring Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, and Liam Neeson
Unstoppable (2010)
available on Hulu with the Cinemax extension
“With an unmanned, half-mile-long freight train barreling toward a city, a veteran engineer and a young conductor race against the clock to prevent a catastrophe.”
starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, and Rosario Dawson
Warrior (2011)
available with a Hulu subscription
“The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he’s trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament – a path that puts the fighter on a collision course with his estranged, older brother.”
starring Tom Hardy, Nick Nolte, and Joel Edgerton
Where’d You Go Bernadette (2019)
available with a Hulu subscription
“A loving mom becomes compelled to reconnect with her creative passions after years of sacrificing herself for her family. Her leap of faith takes her on an epic adventure that jump-starts her life and leads to her triumphant rediscovery.”
starring Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, and Emma Nelson
Wonder Boys (2000)
available on Sony Crackle
“An English Professor tries to deal with his wife leaving him, the arrival of his editor who has been waiting for his book for seven years, and the various problems that his friends and associates involve him in.”
starring Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, and Frances McDormand
Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)
available with a Netflix subscription
“Lifelong platonic friends Zack and Miri look to solve their respective cash-flow problems by making an adult film together. As the cameras roll, however, the duo begin to sense that they may have more feelings for each other than they previously thought.”
starring Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, and Craig Robinson
*This information is current as of 3/23/2020.