Keane

Official Movie Production Notes

KEANE
A Lodge Kerrigan Film

A Magnolia Pictures Release Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2004
Official selection Toronto Film Festival 2004
Official Selection New York Film Festival 2004
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2005

1.85:1, 90 minutes, Dolby SR

SYNOPSIS

We first meet William Keane (Damian Lewis) in the Port Authority bus terminal where he is frantically searching for his 6-year-old daughter, who has been missing for months. Helplessly drawn to the site of the purported abduction, Keane wanders the bus station obsessively going over the events of that fateful day. Veering between days of relentless searching and nights of alcohol and drug induced extremes of wanton behavior, he seems to be teetering precariously on the edge of sanity.
Then one day he meets a financially strapped young woman (Amy Ryan) and her 7-year-old daughter (Abigail Breslin), who are also staying at the same transient motel in New Jersey. He reaches out to them and soon the mother entrusts him to pick up the girl after school and bring her home. As he becomes increasingly attached to the child, the story moves to a whole new level of poignancy and eventually tension, as he searches for redemption through the little girl.
Working in a handheld verité style, director Kerrigan and DP John Foster, plunge us directly into Keane's profoundly unsettled universe. Damian Lewis's riveting, visceral performance of a man grappling with the effects of a profound loss makes KEANE a complex, deeply humane and unforgettable portrait.

ABIGAIL BRESLIN (“KIRA BEDIK”)
Abigail Breslin, Abby to her friends, started in the business following in the footsteps of her brother, Spencer Breslin (with whom she co-starred in Raising Helen). She did her first commercial for Toys R Us when she was three years old. She made her motion picture debut in the Touchstone Pictures hit Signs, written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. She has also performed in various roles for television, including guest spots on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Navy N.C.I.S., and What I Like About You. She is now eight years old.

CAST
(In Order of Appearance)

William Keane Damian Lewis
1st Ticket Agent Liza Colon-Zayas
2nd Ticket Agent John Tormey
Commuter Brenda Denmark
1st Bus Driver/Ticket Taker Ed Wheeler
Motel Clerk Christopher Evan Welch
Woman in Dept. Store Yvette Mercedes
Bartender Chris Bauer
Drug Dealer Lev Gorn
Assaulted Commuter Frank Wood
1st Cab Driver Alexander Robert Scott 2nd Cab Driver Phil McGlaston
Lynn Bedik Amy Ryan
Kira Bedik Abigail Breslin

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