The Long Game
In THE LONG GAME, ambitious ingenue Holly Sloan falls for older con man Richard and agrees to help him scam Mariah McKay, an '80s starlet who has fallen into Norma Desmond-like obscurity.
In THE LONG GAME, ambitious ingenue Holly Sloan falls for older con man Richard and agrees to help him scam Mariah McKay, an '80s starlet who has fallen into Norma Desmond-like obscurity.
THE LONG GAME is a "femme fatale origin story" and neo-noir about ambitious ingenue Holly Sloan (Sekai Abeni), who falls for older con man Richard (Jackie Earle Haley). She agrees to help him scam Mariah McKay (Kathleen Turner), an 80s starlet who has faded into a Norma Desmond-like obscurity, but the two women strike up an unlikely friendship. After renting a room in the star’s house, Holly follows Richard’s urging and cases Mariah’s jewelry in order to rob her. Caught between her passion for Richard and her allegiance to Mariah, Holly must decide where her true loyalties lie. Based on a short story by New York Times-bestselling author Janet Fitch.
Director/screenwriter Jace Anderson most recently directed her first feature film, The Long Game, which premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in February 2024. Based on a short story by New York Times-bestselling author Janet Fitch, the film stars Kathleen Turner, Jackie Earle Haley and newcomer Sekai Abeni. It is a “femme fatale origin story,” a contemporary neo-noir that tells the tale of young actress Holly Sloan and her entanglements with failed con man Richard Metzger and faded superstar Mariah McKay. Together with her husband/co-writer Adam Gierasch, she has written numerous projects in both the studio and indie realms and for companies such as Fox, The Disney Channel, Lakeshore Entertainment and CBS Films. Mentored early in their career by legendary horror director Tobe Hooper, the duo has also worked with Clive Barker and Dario Argento. Sixteen of their scripts have been made into feature films. Recent projects include the Saturn Award-winning “Tales of Halloween,” for which Gierasch directed and Anderson produced a segment. Gierasch has directed many of the duo’s scripts, and recently directed the film “Spaghetti.” Anderson graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University, where her senior thesis, “Re-Writing Race: Subverting Language in Anne Moody’s Coming of Age in Mississippi and Alice Walker’s Meridian” was published in the academic journal a/b: autobiography studies.
World Premiere - Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2024
Los Angeles Premiere -- LA Femme International Women Film Festival 2024
Actor - Kathleen Turner
Actor - Jackie Earle Haley