Jenny Slate reteams with Gillian Robespierre, who directed her in ‘Obvious Child,’ for this look at adultery and dysfunctional New York families, co-starring Edie Falco, John Turturro, Jay Duplass and Abby Quinn. The core talents who helped to make 2014’s unwanted pregnancy comedy Obvious Child such a delight — writer-director Gillian Robespierre, writer-producer Elisabeth Holm and lead actor-executive producer Jenny Slate reteam here for Landline , a more ambitious effort with a crack supporting cast.
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From Ali to Zsa Zsa: Stars we lost in 2016
The trinity of deaths of rock icon David Bowie, beloved actor Alan Rickman and Glenn Frey of the Eagles in early January shocked the world, and the hits just kept coming in 2016: Prince on April 21 from an accidental overdose of a powerful painkiller; boxing’s “The Greatest” Muhammad Ali on June 3 from complications from Parkinson’s; not to mention actor Gene Wilder , novelist Harper Lee, former First Lady Nancy Reagan, and, in an end-of-the-year gut punch, the passings of “Star Wars” icon Carrie Fisher and her mother, “Singin’ in the Rain” star Debbie Reynolds , a day apart.