Guest Artist (2019)
74 min
Joseph Harris, a legendary, but troubled playwright comes to small Michigan town at Christmastime to mount his latest play. Greeting the cynical New Yorker is a young, aspiring writer who challenges his hero to be the icon he’d idolized. However, Harris wants no part of Michigan, small towns and he has no interest in being the young man’s hero. The young man must face his hero and navigate the relationship between heroes, reality and hope.
- Release date
- February 7, 2019
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Jeff Daniels as Joseph Harris
- Thomas Macias as Kenneth Waters
- Richard McWilliams as Franz
- Erika Slezak as Helen
- McKara Bechler as Hope
- Dan Johnson as Dan
- Lynch R. Travis as Larry
- Ruth Crawford as Mary
- Michael Alden as Blonde in bar
- Aidan Fogarty as Bartender
Crew
- Timothy Busfield · Director
- Jeff Daniels · Writer
- Michael Alden · Producer
- Timothy Busfield · Producer
- Jeff Daniels · Producer
- Michael Ferdie · Producer
- Ben Daniels · Composer
- Wilson Coates Busfield · Cinematographer
- Alyssa Loveall · Editor
- Guy Sanville · Casting director