Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired distribution rights to award-winning screenwriter Oren Moverman’s (“I’m Not There”) directorial debut, “The Messenger.”
The story about a returned war hero making his first steps towards a normal life, “The Messenger” had its world premiere at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and won the Silver Bear award for Best Screenplay and the Peace Film Award at the 2009 Berlinale Film Festival.
Starring Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson and Samantha Morton, and co-written by Moverman and Alessandro Camon, it will be released in November.
Foster stars as a U.S. Army officer who has just returned home from a tour in Iraq and is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service.