Daddy Longlegs
Mining the emotional sense memories of their own fractured childhoods, Josh and Benny Safdie craft a by turns empathetic and disquieting portrait of parental dysfunction poised between fierce love and terrifying irresponsibility. Manic Manhattan movie theater projectionist Lenny (cowriter and longtime Safdie collaborator Ronald Bronstein) is perhaps the last person who should be raising kids, yet here he is, trying (and failing) to keep it together as his life unravels over the two whirlwind weeks in which he has custody of his young boys (real-life brothers Sage and Frey Ranaldo), with an impromptu road trip, a sleeping-pill mishap, and a night in jail all part of the chaos. Vérité New York naturalism gives way to flights of surreal lyricism in Daddy Longlegs, a blearily impressionistic anti–fairy tale that finds unexpected humanity in the seemingly most irredeemable of fathers.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital transfer, approved by directors Josh and Benny Safdie, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack
- New interviews with actors Sage and Frey Ranaldo and their parents, artist Leah Singer and musician Lee Ranaldo
- Documentary from 2017 about the Safdies
- Footage of Sage and Frey Ranaldo’s first meeting with actor Ronald Bronstein
- Making-of program
- There’s Nothing You Can Do (2008), a short film by the Safdies featuring members of the Daddy Longlegs cast and crew
- Episode of Talk Show, a 2008 interview series featuring Daddy Longlegs cast and crew
- Deleted scenes
- Promotional films and trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Stéphane Delorme and a 2009 print interview with the Safdies
New illustration by Sammy Harkham
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital transfer, approved by directors Josh and Benny Safdie, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack
- New interviews with actors Sage and Frey Ranaldo and their parents, artist Leah Singer and musician Lee Ranaldo
- Documentary from 2017 about the Safdies
- Footage of Sage and Frey Ranaldo’s first meeting with actor Ronald Bronstein
- Making-of program
- There’s Nothing You Can Do (2008), a short film by the Safdies featuring members of the Daddy Longlegs cast and crew
- Episode of Talk Show, a 2008 interview series featuring Daddy Longlegs cast and crew
- Deleted scenes
- Promotional films and trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Stéphane Delorme and a 2009 print interview with the Safdies
New illustration by Sammy Harkham
Cast
- Ronald Bronstein
- Lenny Sokol
- Alex Greenblatt
- Alex
- Sage Ranaldo
- Sage Sokol
- Frey Ranaldo
- Frey Sokol
- Victor Puccio
- Principal Puccio
- Eléonore Hendricks
- Leni
- Sean Price Williams
- Dale
- Dakota Goldhor
- Roberta
- Aren Topdjian
- Aren (boyfriend)
- Abel Ferrara
- Robber
- Leah Singer
- Paige (mother)
- Salvatore Sansone
- Salvie
- Jake Braff
- Jake
- Marc Raybin
- Mark
Credits
- Director
- Josh Safdie
- Director
- Benny Safdie
- Written by
- Josh Safdie
- Benny Safdie
- Produced by
- Casey Neistat
- Tom Scott
- Coproduced by
- Sam Lisenco
- Josh Safdie
- Benny Safdie
- Brett Jutkiewicz
- Zach Treitz
- Michel Zana
- Sophie Dulac
- Executive-produced by
- Andy Spade
- Associate producers
- Eléonore Hendricks
- Matt Walker
- Charles Merzbacher
- Additional casting
- Eléonore Hendricks
- Alex Kalman
- Edited by
- Josh Safdie
- Benny Safdie
- Brett Jutkiewicz
- Ronald Bronstein
- Cinematography
- Brett Jutkiewicz
- Josh Safdie
- Sound by
- Zach Treitz
- Benny Safdie
- Production design
- Sam Lisenco
- Art direction
- Ariel Schulman
- Art production assistant
- Katie Hickman
- Music
- Michael Hurley
- David Sandholm
- Matthew Volz
Edition introduction to Daddy Longlegs
Trailer for Daddy Longlegs
