Fonda to Star with Keener in 'Peace, Love, and Misunderstanding' Film

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Tony nominee Jane Fonda will star alongside Catherine Keener in the upcoming indie film "Peace, Love, and Understanding," to be directed by Bruce Beresford.

The film, featuring a script written by Christina Mengert and Joseph Muszynski, tells the story of a conservative lawyer (played by Keener) who takes her son and daughter to their estranged hippie grandmother's (Fonda) house in Woodstock after leaving her husband.

BCDF Pictures will produce and finance the picture, which is set to being filming in July in New York's Hudson River Valley.

Fonda's most recent film was "Georgia Rule," in which she also played a grandmother in a multigenerational drama.

Keener has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress twice, for "Being John Malkovich" and "Capote." Other film credits include "Walking and Talking," "Lovely and Amazing," and "Into the Wild."

Fonda received a Tony Award nomination last yearfor her performance in 33 VARIATIONS. Her other Broadway credits include STRANGE INTERLUDE and INVITATION TO MARCH. She is also an Academy Award winner for her performances in "Coming Home" and "Klute." She's been Oscar nominated many times for films like "The Morning After," "On Golden Pond," "Julia," and "They Shoot Horses Don't They?"

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