A literary rockstar returns to Brooklyn and his ghosts RSVP'd first.
William Carmody is a successful, high profile writer living in LA. When a signing for his latest book brings him back home to Brooklyn for the first time in many years, he is forced to confront the life he left behind, and the people he would sooner forget. An adaptation of the Pete Hamill short story "The Book Signing."
Acting
Scott Cohen's restrained ache—fame looks exhausting on him.
Direction
Giraldi lets silences do the screaming. Twenty minutes, zero fat.
Director
Bob Giraldi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pete Hamill's Brooklyn is its own character—gritty, Catholic, unforgiving. This adaptation preserves that specific working-class Irish-American literary tradition that Hollywood usually gentrifies.
Bob Giraldi directed the 'Beat It' video and 'Dinner Rush'—here he's working in a completely different register, proving music video veterans often understand visual economy better than feature directors.
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