I SAW THE TV GLOW / Feature Film / Sundance 2024 (A24)

Director: Jane Schoenbrun

Producers: Emma Stone, Luca Intili, Sarah Winshall, Ali Herting, Dave McCary

Casting Directors: Abby Harri, Geraldine Barón, Salome Oggenfuss

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A teenager just trying to make it through life in the suburbs is introduced by a classmate to a mysterious late-night TV show.

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CRITICAL PRAISE for I SAW THE TV GLOW

"Arresting from the start and only increasingly mesmeric as it begins to map the liminal space between truth and fiction that exists inside both of its lead characters, “I Saw the TV Glow” recreates a certain mind-pocket of the ’90s as vividly as “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair” captured its strange corner of the internet. Its surprisingly far-reaching story begins when Owen (Ian Foreman, who later ages into Justice Smith) is just a quiet seventh-grader in suburbia whose parents won’t let him stay up late enough to watch his favorite shows. His well-intentioned mom (Danielle Deadwyler) still treats him like a child, and his menacing dad seems to resent any developments that might threaten his own control over the family (often framed out as more of a dark presence than a real person, he’s played by ’90s icon Fred Durst, whose music spoke to outsiders even as its fandom refused to make room for them)." — David Ehrlich, Indiewire

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"Tender yet rageful, quiet yet deafening, intimate yet expansive, Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow is a towering achievement of total artistic freedom, the kind of work where certain images will be eternally burned into your mind and the feelings it exudes will linger far after the credits roll." — Jordan Raup, The Film Stage

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"The cast is strangely assembled but surprisingly effective, with standout performances that add to the film's captivating atmosphere." — Ross Bonaime, Collider

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"Jane Schoenbrun’s stunning second feature is both a horror-inflected story of teens fixated on a Buffy-esque TV show and a haunting trans allegory." — Benjamin Lee, The Guardian​

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