Go Getter to feature Zooey Deschanel, Jena Malone, more

By now, you’ve probably (hopefully!) listened to She & Him and thought to yourself, “I wonder about the serendipitous events that brought Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward together to make such sweet, sweet music.” Your answer? Just like most L.A.-borne collaborations, they met on a film set.

Martin Hynes wrote and directed said film, The Go Getter, which will be opening on June 7 in L.A. and NYC. Rumor has it that it will be available to the rest of us commonfolk sometime in August. An Official Selection at Sundance 2007, The Go Getter runs at 93 minutes and is rated ‘R.’

The film focuses on a straight-laced 19-year-old, Mercer White, played by Lou Taylor Pucci (most recently in Thumbsucker), who, facing the death of his mother, steals a car and leaves his hometown of Eugene, Ore. to find the older half-brother he has not seen since he was a tot.

It is a coming of age film in the truest sense, as White runs into an old girlfriend played by Jena Malone, and begins a cell phone-based relationship with the owner of the car he stole, Zooey Deschanel. She is evidently a very forgiving soul, and he promises to return the car to her as soon as he is finished with it.

You can expect the beautiful cinematography, done by Byron Shah, routine of a road movie, and a killer soundtrack featuring lots of M.Ward. Ward also reportedly has a cameo in the movie as none other than a guitarist.

Hynes, who was born and raised in Eugene, called the film, “very uncomfortably autobiographical,” in an interview at the AFI Dallas Film Festival. He, too, spent a year on the road and dealt with big loss in life. However, he said, “I never stole a car.”

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