9/05/2014

First Image from Sebastian Silva's 'Nasty Baby' Starring Kristen Wiig


This may just be me being jealous of all my friends at Toronto, but can we start looking ahead to Sundance yet? Last year Chilean director Sebastian Silva was in Park City with two movies: Crystal Fairy and Magic Magic. It's been more than a year since Kristen Wiig and TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe (Jump Tomorrow) joined Silva's latest film, Nasty Baby, and now the first image has arrived.

Silva co-stars alongside his brother Agustin, Reg E. Cathey (The Wire), Alia Shawkat (Arrested Development), and Mark Margolis, with the story centering on a gay couple's attempts to have a baby. Adebimpe and Sebastian are the couple with Wiig as Polly, their best friend and surrogate.

This is one I fully expect to see at Sundance in a few months, and yes I'm counting down the days already. Check out the synopsis below:

NASTY BABY centers around a Brooklyn couple, Freddy and his boyfriend Mo, who are trying to have a baby with the help of their best friend, Polly. Freddy is an artist, and his latest work is all about babies – it’s clear he’s dying to be a father. Polly is a family practitioner who is more interested in having a baby than having a man. Mo is hesitant about the entire idea, especially when Polly isn’t having success with Freddy’s sperm and the donor responsibility shifts to him. Set almost entirely in the multicultural vibrancy of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, the trio navigate the idea of creating life, when they are confronted by unexpected harassment from particularly aggressive neighborhood man, nicknamed The Bishop. The Bishop is bothersome in small, yet persistent ways, with a hint of danger. As their clashes become increasingly aggressive, someone is bound to get hurt.