The Daytrippers
With its droll humor and bittersweet emotional heft, the feature debut of writer-director Greg Mottola announced the arrival of an unassumingly sharp-witted new talent on the 1990s indie film scene. When she discovers a love letter written to her husband (Stanley Tucci) by an unknown paramour, the distraught Eliza (Hope Davis) turns to her tight-knit Long Island family for advice. Soon the entire clan—strong-willed mom (Anne Meara), taciturn dad (Pat McNamara), and jaded sister (Parker Posey) with pretentious boyfriend (Liev Schreiber) in tow—has squeezed into a station wagon and headed into Manhattan to find out the truth, kicking off a one-crazy-day odyssey full of unexpected detours and life-changing revelations. Performed with deadpan virtuosity by a top-flight ensemble cast, The Daytrippers is a wry and piercing look at family bonds stretched to the breaking point.
Director-Approved Special Edition Features
- New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director Greg Mottola, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New audio commentary featuring Mottola, editor Anne McCabe, and producer Steven Soderbergh
- New interviews with Mottola and actors Hope Davis, Parker Posey, Liev Schreiber, and Campbell Scott
- The Hatbox, a 1985 short film by Mottola, with audio commentary by the director
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Emily Nussbaum
New cover by R. Kikuo Johnson
Director-Approved Special Edition Features
- New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director Greg Mottola, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New audio commentary featuring Mottola, editor Anne McCabe, and producer Steven Soderbergh
- New interviews with Mottola and actors Hope Davis, Parker Posey, Liev Schreiber, and Campbell Scott
- The Hatbox, a 1985 short film by Mottola, with audio commentary by the director
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Emily Nussbaum
New cover by R. Kikuo Johnson
Cast
- Hope Davis
- Eliza
- Pat McNamara
- Jim Malone
- Anne Meara
- Rita Malone
- Parker Posey
- Jo
- Liev Schreiber
- Carl
- Campbell Scott
- Eddie
- Stanley Tucci
- Louis
- Andy Brown
- Ronnie
- Marc Grapey
- Aaron
- Marcia Gay Harden
- Libby
- Marcia Haufrecht
- Molly
- Paul Herman
- Leon
- Carol Locatell
- Doris
- Douglas McGrath
- Chap
- Amy Stiller
- Amy Corinne Fairbright-Lebow
- Stephanie Venditto
- Cassandra
Credits
- Director
- Greg Mottola
- Written by
- Greg Mottola
- Producer
- Nancy Tenenbaum
- Producer
- Steven Soderbergh
- Executive producer
- Lawrence S. Kamerman
- Executive producer
- David Heyman
- Executive producer
- Campbell Scott
- Director of photography
- John Inwood
- Editor
- Anne McCabe
- Production designer
- Bonnie J. Brinkley
- Line producer
- Jon Stern
- Costume designer
- Barbara Presar
- Music by
- Richard Martinez
- Casting by
- Sheila Jaffe
- Casting by
- Georgianne Walken
A scene from The Daytrippers
