If you'd care to take out your Oscar-bait checklist (right there by your bedside table), you'll find that you can check off quite a number of boxes for THE GOLDFINCH; Impressive cast. Beautifully shot. Sprawling, dramatic story. Yep, this one's got potential. Based upon Donna Tartt's best-selling novel, THE GOLDFINCH tells the story of Theo, a young man who lost his mother in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art when he was just 13 years old. The John Crowley (BROOKLYN) film is already being touted as one of 2019's Oscar hopefuls, and based upon the latest trailer, they'd better break out that Oscar polish.
Ansel Elgort (BABY DRIVER) stars as Theo Decker alongside Nicole Kidman (Big Little Lies) as Mrs. Barbour, a wealty woman who takes in the orphaned Theo. THE GOLDFINCH also stars Jeffrey Wright (Westworld), Sarah Paulson (American Horror Story), Luke Wilson (Stargirl), Ashleigh Cummings (NOS4A2), Willa Fitzgerald (Scream), and Denis O'Hare (True Blood). If that wasn't enough, you've also got the great Roger Deakins (BLADE RUNNER 2049) serving as director of photography.
The official synopsis for THE GOLDFINCH:
Theodore “Theo” Decker was 13 years old when his mother was killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The tragedy changes the course of his life, sending him on a stirring odyssey of grief and guilt, reinvention and redemption, and even love. Through it all, he holds on to one tangible piece of hope from that terrible day…a painting of a tiny bird chained to its perch. The Goldfinch.
THE GOLDFINCH will hit theaters on September 13, 2019.
