Matthew Broderick to Star in New Dark Comedy LOOK AWAY

Deadline reports that Matthew Broderick (IT'S ONLY A PLAY) will join Chloë Sevigny and UK actress Shannon Tarbet in the dark comedy LOOK AWAY.

Tarbet will take on the lead role with Broderick and Sevigny playing her parents. Andy Delaney and Monty Whitebloom will direct from a script by Jennifer Schuur. Tarbet's character is described as "an offbeat young woman who is unable to physically see her mother due to a fictional affliction called selective blindness."

Broderick most recently starred in Broadway's IT'S ONLY A PLAY. The actor made his stage debut at 17 in Horton Foote's On Valentine's Day opposite his father, James Broderick.

Other Broadway credits include Brighton Beach Memoirs (Tony®, OCC, Theatre World awards), Biloxi Blues, How to Succeed in Business... (Tony®, DD, OCC awards), Night Must Fall, Taller Than a Dwarf, The Producers (Tony®, DD, OCC nominations), Roundabout's The Foreigner, The Philanthropist and Nice Work If You Can Get It.

Film work includes Max Dugan Returns, WarGames, 1918, On Valentine's Day, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Project X, Ladyhawke, Biloxi Blues, Glory, Family Business, The Freshman, The Lion King, Infinity (directed by Mr. Broderick and written by his mother Patricia Broderick), The Cable Guy, ADDICTED to Love, Inspector Gadget, Election, You Can Count on Me, The Last Shot, Marie and Bruce, Strangers with Candy, Wonderful World and the film adaptation of The Producers.

On TV he has appeared in "The Music Man" on ABC and "Master Harold and the Boys" on Showtime. He also starred in Bee Movie, Then She Found Me, Finding Amanda and Tower Heist. He will soon be seen in Neil LaBute's Dirty Weekend, The American Side and the Untitled Warren Beatty Project.

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