Apparently you’re going to get your first look at Jason Reitman‘s Labor Day tomorrow and in advance the following new poster for the film has come online. Of course, for anyone that read my review of the film out of the Toronto Film Festival, you already know I wasn’t much of a fan, teasing my review saying Labor Day “is a half-baked melodrama worthy of Nicholas Sparks, not Jason Reitman.”
The film is based on Joyce Maynard’s novel of the same name, centering on 13-year-old Henry Wheeler (Gattlin Griffin), who struggles to be the man of his house and care for his reclusive mother Adele (Kate Winslet) while confronting all the pangs of adolescence. On a back-to-school shopping trip, Henry and his mother encounter Frank Chambers (Josh Brolin), a man both intimidating and clearly in need of help, who convinces them to take him into their home and later is revealed to be an escaped convict. The events of this long Labor Day weekend will shape them for the rest of their lives.
The film doesn’t arrive in theaters until Christmas Day, and even then it’s a limited release, and Paramount’s attention has obviously turned to Martin Scorsese‘s The Wolf of Wall Street and Alexander Payne‘s Nebraska. I am curious to see how the trailer sells the film, which is far better represented in this poster than the previous one. Check it out below.
