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Trailer: Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman in Sony Classics’ ‘The Father’

Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they will release Florian Zeller’s The Father in theaters in New York and Los Angeles on December 18, 2020, followed by most major markets on Christmas Day.

The film was acquired by Sony Pictures Classics ahead of its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year (read our review here) and can next be seen at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival.

Written by Zeller and Christopher Hampton, The Father stars Academy Award winners Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman, a father-daughter duo—one mischievous, the other caring—who battle the universal prophecy of loss that come with age. The family drama also stars Mark Gatiss, Rufus Sewell, Imogen Poots and Olivia Williams. Hopkins is receiving this year’s TIFF Tribute Actor Award on Tuesday, September 15, 2020.

The Father was co-produced by Trademark Films, F Comme Film, Ciné-@ and Les Films du Cru and financed by Viewfinder and Embankment. Producers are David Parfitt, Jean-Louis Livi, Philippe Carcassonne, Christophe Spadone and Simon Friend.

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