Now & Later (2011) Hollywood Movie

Release Date: 02/18/2011
Rating: Not Yet Rated
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Drama
Director: Philippe Diaz
Cast: Shari Solanis, Keller Wortham, James Wortham, Gil

Summary - When a kindhearted Latino woman takes in a former banking genius-turned-suicidal fugitive, the pair engage in a series of intense philosophical discussions that soon climax in a passionate affair. Once upon a time, Bill was the golden boy of the banking industry -- a financial wiz who specialized in buying and selling the debts of emerging countries. These days, Bill is a wanted man, and a run-in with the law means a stiff prison sentence. One day, while contemplating suicide, Bill crosses paths with Angela, a free-spirited woman whom he would have never known in his former life. While Bill and Angela share little in common when it comes to their backgrounds, their stimulating conversations about sex, philosophy, and other earthly delights lead them both to realize they have more in common than they previously thought. Now, as the pair enters into a heated affair, the course of Bill's life begins to take an abrupt and unexpected turn.

                                                                      Sex, politics and American culture are mixed into a combustible combination in Now & Later. Angela (Shari Solanis) is an illegal Latina immigrant living in Los Angeles who stumbles across Bill (James Wortham), a disgraced banker on the run. She takes him in. Through passionate sex, soul-searching conversations ranging from politics to philosophy, and other worldly pleasures, Angela introduces Bill to another worldview. As their affair heats up, the course of Bill's life begins to take an abrupt and unexpected turn. The film was conceived by the director in reaction to American's penchant for violence in our culture and our puritanical censoring of anything involving sex. Familiar with philosopher Wilhelm Reich's notion that a sexually repressed society turns into a violent one, Diaz makes an unabashedly sexual yet cerebral film that challenges the perception that sex in media is harmful.

Keller Wortham

Shari Solanis