Trailer: Margaret Qualley stars in Strange But True pregnancy thriller

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

A trailer has arrived online for director Rowan Athale's upcoming film STRANGE BUT TRUE, which Lionsgate will be giving a VOD and limited theatrical release on September 6th. This trailer starts off looking like some kind of Nicholas Sparks story with an odd supernatural element, but things get more interesting as the trailer goes on and adds in hints that things in this story are going to get violent.

Written by Eric Garcia, STRANGE BUT TRUE is based on a novel by John Searles that you can buy at THIS LINK and has the following description: 

After a mysterious fall from his Manhattan apartment, Philip Chase has moved home with his mother, Charlene, a bitter woman who has never fully accepted the death of her younger son, Ronnie, five years earlier. Numb from watching too much TV and trading snipes with his mother, Philip is in stasis. But everything changes one winter night when Ronnie's high school girlfriend shows up on their doorstep to deliver the news that she is pregnant… and the father, she claims, is Ronnie.

So begins the startling tale as Philip and his mother confront Melissa's past and their own. Their search for answers takes them on an emotional journey, placing them in the path of murder and revenge. At once a moving story of redemption and a heart-stopping work of suspense, Strange but True brings to life a cast of characters that no reader will soon forget.

That's a more intriguing synopsis than the one the film has, which tells us this is a 

riveting tale of an estranged family reunited by an unlikely truth that unravels a web of deadly lies. A woman surprises the family of her deceased boyfriend by telling them she's pregnant with his child years later. 

STRANGE BUT TRUE stars Nick Robinson, Amy Ryan, Greg Kinnear, Blythe Danner, Brian Cox, Connor Jessup, and Mena Massoud, with Margaret Qualley – who can currently be seen on the big screen in Quentin Tarantino's ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD – as the mysteriously pregnant character.