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From Greek weddings to phone sex for Vardalos
Nia Vardalos will be filming a new movie in Winnipeg this summer about four suburban friends who resort to starting up a phone-sex line to make money. (CHRIS PIZZELLO / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVES)
After making an American Girl movie in Winnipeg last year, actress Nia Vardalos will be returning to her hometown to make a romantic comedy about four suburban friends who resort to starting up a phone-sex line to make money.
The film 33 Liberty Lane will also star Sandra Oh, Emily Watson and Melora Hardin, and will be directed by Peter Hewitt, best known for the movies Garfield and Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey. In recent months, Hewitt shot the made-for-TV movie Home Alone 5: Alone in the Dark in Winnipeg.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the film will be shot here in June and July to take advantage of Oh's summer hiatus from the TV series Grey's Anatomy.
The four actresses will play women suffering from the economic downturn, with Vardalos playing a "serial marrier" alongside a recently dumped wife (Watson, who was twice nominated for best-actress Oscars for her films Breaking the Waves and Hilary and Jackie), a stalled executive (Hardin, best known as Jan on TV's The Office) and a 40-year-old virgin (Oh).
In order to negotiate the world of the sex industry, the women hire a hooker to act as their advisor.
The film was scripted by Canadian writer Stephen Ayres for producers Su Armstrong and Brian Rosen and the plan is for a finished product to screen at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition May 1, 2012 D2
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