Bleecker Street has acquired the North American rights to writer-director Laurel Parmet’s feature directorial debut,” The Starling Girl,” the company announced on Friday.
The film premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim and stars Eliza Scanlen (“Little Women,” “Sharp Objects”), Lewis Pullman (“Outer Range”, “Top Gun: Maverick”), Jimmi Simpson (“Westworld”, “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”), Wrenn Schmidt (“For All Mankind”, “Nope”) and Austin Abrams (“Paper Towns,” “Do Revenge”).
Bleecker Street will release the film theatrically later this year.
“The Starling Girl” follows 17-year-old Jem Starling (Scanlen), who struggles to define her place within her fundamentalist Christian community in rural Kentucky.