“Egg” is set to hatch in theaters come the new year. Gravitas Ventures acquired North American rights to Marianna Palka’s dark comedy about motherhood and is planning a January 18 day-and-date with a digital release, Deadline reports. The satire stars Christina Hendricks (“Mad Men”), Alysia Reiner (“Orange Is the New Black”), and Anna Camp (“Pitch Perfect”) and made its world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year.
Penned by Risa Mickenberg, “Egg” tells the story of “a fearless conceptual artist Tina (Reiner) and her passive-aggressive feminist husband (Gbenga Akinnagbe), who invite her eight-months-pregnant art school rival (Hendricks) and her power hungry, new money husband (David Alan Basche) to their Bushwick loft. They surprise them with Tina’s new work-in-progress: a radical alternative to motherhood. But when their sensuous, non-traditional surrogate (Camp) arrives, the truth comes out, and they all must face their own ridiculous and sometimes heartbreaking shortcomings,” the source summarizes.
Gravitas CEO and founder Nolan Gallagher praised the film for its “pointed examination of evolving gender roles, by turns funny and poignant, that will hit close to home for many audience members.”
Palka told us “the beauty of birth” drew her to “Egg.” The “GLOW” actress made her directorial debut with 2008’s “Good Dick,” a comedy about a lonely woman (Palka) and the video store clerk (Jason Ritter, “Parenthood”) trying to impress her. Her last film, “Bitch,” debuted at Sundance 2017. The feminist comedy stars Palka as a mother of four children who discovers her husband is cheating on her and takes on the identity of a dog.
