Felicity Huffman-starrer “Tammy’s Always Dying” has found a home. Quiver Distribution landed North American rights to Amy Jo Johnson’s dark comedy. Deadline broke the news.
Penned by Joanne Sarazen, the pic tells the story of Tammy (Huffman), a “charismatic, yet self-destructive mother to 35-year-old Catherine (Anastasia Phillips), whose role as a caregiver changes when Tammy is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Catherine eventually recruits a talk show agent to help profit from her mother’s miserable life story. But as Tammy’s death becomes her daughter’s only way out, one problem stands in her way: Tammy just won’t die,” the source teases.
“I connected to [the story] on a cathartic core-deep level because my father struggles with depression and alcoholism and my mother passed away from cancer,” Johnson has said. “It was the first time I directed something that I didn’t write, but the fact that I could climb my way inside the story because of so many personal connections was helpful. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have tried to make it.”
Best known for her on-screen roles in “Flashpoint,” “Felicity,” and “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers,” Johnson’s directing credits include feature “The Space Between” and shorts “Breaking Emma” and “Shooting Blanks.”
Huffman received an Oscar nod for “Transamerica” and won an Emmy for “Desperate Housewives.” “When They See Us” and “American Crime” are among her more recent credits.
“Tammy’s Always Dying” made its world premiere at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival and will hit digital platforms May 1.