Awkward Trailer for ‘Lousy Carter’ Comedy Starring David Krumholtz

Awkward Trailer for ‘Lousy Carter’ Comedy Starring David Krumholtz

by Alex Billington
February 20, 2024
Source: YouTube

“Even my therapist is fed up.” Magnolia Pictures has revealed an official trailer for an indie comedy titled Lousy Carter, the latest indie film from auteur filmmaker Bob Byington (Somebody Up There Likes Me, Infinity Baby, Frances Ferguson). This originally premiered at the 2023 Locarno Film Festival last year, and it also played at the Philadelphia and Montclair Film Festivals. The film stars Oppenheimer’s stand out actor David Krumholtz in a lead role as a very “lousy” guy at a university who is suddenly told he has six months left to live. So he goes off on everyone around him. Man-baby Lousy Carter struggles to complete his animated Nabokov adaptation, teaches a graduate seminar on Gatsby, and sleeps with his best friend’s wife. He has six months to live. The film also features comedy all-stars Martin Starr, Olivia Thirlby, Jocelyn DeBoer, Macon Blair, and Stephen Root. This opens in March in theaters and on VOD for everyone to enjoy. This filmmaker seems like an acquired taste, but it’s Krumholtz being funny which makes me curious.

Here’s the official trailer (+ posters) for Bob Byington’s Lousy Carter, direct from Magnolia’s YouTube:

In Lousy Carter, David Krumholtz stars as a ne’er-do-well literature professor adrift on a soulless college campus who learns he only has six months to live. With the clock ticking down, will he change his ways? Probably not… Man-baby Lousy Carter struggles to complete his animated Nabokov adaptation, teaches a graduate seminar on The Great Gatsby, and sleeps with his best friend’s wife. Lousy Carter is both written and directed by American indie filmmaker Bob Byington, of the films RSO: Registered Sex Offender, Harmony and Me, Somebody Up There Likes Me, Tuna, 7 Chinese Brothers, Infinity Baby, and Frances Ferguson previously, plus a few other shorts. Produced by Chris McKenna and Bob Byington. This initially premiered at the 2023 Locarno Film Festival lat year. Magnolia Pictures will debut Byington’s Lousy Carter in select US theaters + on VOD starting March 29th, 2024. Visit the film’s official site. Who’s interested?

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