My Present Age

My Present Age is a smart, exuberant comedy with the DNA of
Sideways, the rollicking visions of (the classic) Billy Liar, and the heart of As
Good As It Gets. It takes us on a comic ride with Ed, a divorcee-to-be who
heroically struggles to win back his girl while attempting to control his
addiction to literature, a dependency that—often hilariously—blurs his
relationship with reality.

Ed's doing okay lately—he's gone cold turkey. Not a drop, not a line.
No novels, no short stories, not even a poem. Yes, Ed's addicted to
literature and it’s responsible for ruining his relationship with reality.
He's got no brakes on his imagination and the prose is a powerful, even
hallucinatory, drug for him. But he's got it under control…

…until he finds out his estranged wife Victoria is pregnant—and that her
new superstar writer boyfriend wants nothing to do with the child. He
has to contact her. He has to do something. So with the help of Rubacek,
an enigmatic young punk, he embarks on a quixotic quest to find
Victoria—and falls right off the wagon.

Somehow in the process of completely destroying his world Ed stumbles
upon the key to ‘managing’ his overactive imagination and finally notices
that Rubacek, a fellow traveler, has been standing at his side all along.”

Writers:         John Hazlett, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Karen Walton

Director:        John Hazlett

Producers:     Anne-Marie Gelinas, Cathy Overett, Phyllis Lang   

Status:          In Development