‘Marriage Story:’ Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver Find It Hard to Say Goodbye in New Trailer (Video)
Noah Baumbach directs Netflix film opening in theaters on Nov. 6
Brian Welk | October 17, 2019 @ 7:42 AM
Last Updated: October 18, 2019 @ 11:12 AM
The first look at Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story” were two mirroring trailers, each looking at divorce from the separate perspectives of Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver’s characters. This new trailer though brings them together, however, and makes it difficult to pull them apart.
Baumbach’s film stars Driver and Johansson as a married couple in the process of a divorce and examines the comedy, frustration and emotion that comes with that process. And while the first pair of trailers made the film look strictly like a two-hander, this new one gives the rest of the cast, including Laura Dern, Merrit Wever, Alan Alda, Julie Hagerty and Ray Liotta, a chance to shine.
“Most people in my business, these are just transactions to them, but I like to think of you as people,” a divorce lawyer played by Alda says warmly to Driver. “You remind me of myself from my second marriage.”
There’s also a scene of Julie Hagerty as Johansson’s mom playfully greeting Driver as she’s about to serve him with divorce papers. And the trailer closes with a hilarious sequence of Ray Liotta explaining what the negotiating process will be like.
“If we start from a place of reasonable, and they start from a place of crazy, when we settle, we’ll be somewhere between reasonable and crazy,” he says.
Netflix debuted “Marriage Story” at the Toronto Film Festival earlier this fall. It will then open in theaters beginning Nov. 6 before launching on Netflix on Dec. 6.
Watch the new trailer above.
5 Best Picture Oscar Winners That Launched at the Toronto Film Festival (Photos)
While Cannes, Berlin, and Venice are all more exotic and glamorous film festivals, the Toronto International Film Festival has become the kingmaker when it comes to the Academy Awards. Since 2008, all but one of the films that have won the festival's People's Choice Award have gone on to become nominated for Best Picture, and multiple films that premiered there have gone on to win the biggest Oscar prize. Here are five of those films from the past decade.
"Slumdog Millionaire" (2008) -- While the Toronto-to-Oscar pipeline dates back to 1999 with "American Beauty," it reached another level with Danny Boyle's crowd-pleaser about a young Indian man whose childhood helps him conquer "Who Wants to Be A Millionaire." While "Slumdog" premiered at Telluride, it was at Toronto where the buzz hit full swing, winning the People's Choice Award before grossing $377 million worldwide and taking home eight Oscars.
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"The King's Speech" (2010) -- Toronto is a major reason why the biopic that has become Tom Hooper's signature role to date beat out more critically acclaimed and popular films like "Inception," "Toy Story 3," and "The Social Network." Hitting every point in the proverbial "Oscar Bait" checklist, "The King's Speech" delighted the industry-heavy crowd in Toronto, creating a buzz among Hollywood's Academy voting bloc so strong that TheWrap's Steve Pond called it as a lock to win Best Picture six months out.
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"12 Years A Slave" (2013) -- While a Toronto film can gain buzz for delighting a certain audience's sensibilities, it can do the same by leaving them downright speechless. The careers of Lupita Nyong'o and Chiwetel Ejiofor can be divided into before and after TIFF 2013, as their powerful performances drove home Steve McQueen's message about just how brutal American slavery truly was. Hollywood deemed "12 Years" an important film that must be seen, ensuring its Oscar victory.
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"Spotlight" (2015) -- Going into TIFF 2015, the big talk was about seeing newly minted Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne play a trans woman in "The Danish Girl" or Charlie Kaufman going stop-motion with "Anomalisa." But out of nowhere came a quiet but riveting retelling of the Boston Globe's 2002 Catholic Church sexual abuse investigation that won over the festivalgoers. "Spotlight" proved to be bigger than the sum of its parts, becoming the first Best Picture winner in over 60 years to only win one other Oscar (Best Adapted Screenplay).
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"Green Book" (2018) -- And then there's this year's Best Picture winner, which like "The King's Speech" saw its momentum start with winning the TIFF People's Choice Award. The victory of "Green Book" has been called by some critics the worst Best Picture winner since "Crash," but the Toronto buzz was so strong that nothing could stop it, whether it be other contenders like "Roma" or an interview with the family of Dr. Don Shirley who called the film a "symphony of lies."
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Toronto has become the kingmaker festival for future Best Picture contenders and winners
While Cannes, Berlin, and Venice are all more exotic and glamorous film festivals, the Toronto International Film Festival has become the kingmaker when it comes to the Academy Awards. Since 2008, all but one of the films that have won the festival's People's Choice Award have gone on to become nominated for Best Picture, and multiple films that premiered there have gone on to win the biggest Oscar prize. Here are five of those films from the past decade.
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