Before We Go
Short description
Before We Go is set during a single night in New York City. Brooke, a married woman, has missed the last train home to Boston and has also been robbed, leaving her stranded and without money at Grand Central Terminal. There she meets Nick, a street musician who saw what happened and offers to help her get back home. Brooke is wary of him at first, but the two end up spending the night together, wandering the city, talking, and gradually revealing more about themselves than they intended. The encounters they have along the way push both of them to face the things holding them back and to reconsider the direction of their lives.
The film was released in 2014 and runs 95 minutes. It is a comedy-drama with romantic elements, produced by Wonderland Sound and Vision, RSVP Entertainment, G4 Productions and Nutmeg Film Productions on a budget of 3 million dollars. Chris Evans directed it and also stars as Nick; the screenplay is by Ronald Bass, Chris Shafer and Paul Vicknair, and the producers include McG, Evans and Howard Baldwin. Alice Eve plays Brooke, with supporting roles for Emma Fitzpatrick, John Cullum, Mark Kassen and Elijah Moreland.
Among audiences the film lands in moderately favourable territory, with an IMDb rating of 6.8 from roughly 69,000 votes and a TMDB rating of 6.7 from a smaller base of around 1,900. Critics were less convinced, giving it 4.5 out of 10 across 32 reviews, a noticeably lower figure than the audience scores. Shot for a modest sum, it was Evans's first time directing a feature.
What's left behind the scenes
- Chris Evans' directorial debut.
- As Chris Evans admitted in an interview, one of the reasons Alice Eve was cast in the lead role was her British origin. The filmmakers initially believed that the heroine should speak with a British accent. However, Eve, who was eventually cast in the lead role, still played an American.
- Chris Evans wanted to learn to play the trumpet and play it himself in the corresponding episodes at the station. When it turned out that this wasn't such a simple task, Evans decided to just memorize the finger movements to hit the notes of the melodies he was supposedly playing.
- At some point during pre-production, specifically in 2008, the film was planned to be directed by Joel Schumacher and star Monica Bellucci. The film was to be called “Train at Half Past Two.”
- Producer Mark Cassin, who played one of the roles, was the director and one of the participants in the film “Push” (2011), which also starred Chris Evans.
- When talking about Carrie, Alice Eve means Carrie Bradshaw, the fictional character and main heroine of the series “Sex and the City,” its two film sequels, and the young adult prequel series. Eve even starred in Michael Patrick King’s “Sex and the City 2” (2010).
Auditions in India
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