A lonely young boy feels different from everyone else. Desperate for a friend, he seeks solace and refuge in his ever-present cell phone and tablet. When a mysterious creature uses the boy’s devices against him to break into our world, his parents must fight to save their son from the monster beyond the screen.
10-28-2020
1h 36m
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Main Cast
Movie Details
Production Info
Director:
Jacob Chase
Writer:
Jacob Chase
Production:
Focus Features, Amblin Partners, The Picture Company, Reliance Entertainment, Mandate International
Revenue:
$8,119,285
Budget:
$9,000,000
Key Crew
Producer:
Alex Heineman
Producer:
Andrew Rona
Executive Producer:
Alan C. Blomquist
Director of Photography:
Maxime Alexandre
Production Design:
David J. Bomba
Locations and Languages
Country:
US
Filming:
IN; US
Languages:
en
Main Cast
Gillian Jacobs
Gillian Jacobs (born October 19, 1982) is an American film, theatre and television actress, best known for her role as Britta Perry on the NBC comedy series Community.
Jacobs was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her mother, Martina Magenau Jacobs, was a Carnegie Mellon University director of alumni relations at the Heinz College. Her father, William F. Jacobs Jr., was an investment banker.She was raised in the Pittsburgh suburb of Mt. Lebanon. She is of French, German, Irish, and Scottish descent. Her family owned the Jackson Koehler Eagle Brewery, established in 1847 in Erie, Pennsylvania, where her grandfather, John Martin Magenau Jr., served as President and CEO until its closure in 1978.
Jacobs began studying acting at the age of eight, and attended acting classes on Saturdays at the Pittsburgh Playhouse while growing up.She performed with the Pittsburgh Public Theater, where she was a perennial contender in the Public's Shakespeare Monologue Contest, leading her to be cast as Titania in its production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. After graduating from Mt. Lebanon High School in 2000, Jacobs moved to New York City, New York to attend the Juilliard School, where she was a member of the Drama Division's Group 33. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2004.
John Howard Gallagher Jr. (born June 17, 1984) is an American actor and musician known for originating the role of Moritz Stiefel in Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater's rock musical Spring Awakening, which earned him a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. He also played Johnny in Green Day's Broadway musical, American Idiot, Lee in the 2011 Broadway production of Jerusalem, and Edmund in the 2016 Broadway revival of Long Day's Journey Into Night. He portrayed Jim Harper in Aaron Sorkin's drama series The Newsroom, starred in the HBO mini-series Olive Kitteridge, and played Emmett DeWitt in 10 Cloverfield Lane.
Winslow was born into a family of actors: he is the son of actors Michael Fegley and Merce Tonne, and brother to actors August Fegley and Oakes Fegley.
Winslow developed his skills in 2017 while starring in the stage production of A Billion Nights on Earth, a production he also added creative collaboration to, with avant-garde theatre director Thaddeus Phillips. The show was developed at the Buntport Theatre in Denver, CO, over the summer of 2017, then toured to sold out houses in Philadelphia in September 2017, and was featured as part of the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in November that year, where it again sold out its run.
In 2018 Winslow landed his first television role, guest-starring on the hilarious TV-Land show Teachers. He then spent the spring filming 8 episodes of the Disney Channel series Fast Layne, as Mel (which debuted in 2019). After wrapping up on the limited series, he went directly into production in the title role of Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made directed by Academy Award-winner Tom McCarthy. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and then debuted in early 2020 as one of the first original features for the Disney+ streaming platform.
In the fall of 2018 Winslow co-starred in the Jacob Chase-helmed horror film Come Play, opposite Azhy Robertson and Gillian Jacobs (released fall 2020).
In 2019, he guest-starred as a preteen Sean in ABC's hit show The Good Doctor.
In the final months of 2020, Winslow returned to work filming Nightbooks, starring as Alex opposite Kristen Ritter and Lydia Jewett. The David Yarovesky-directed picture debuted in the Netflix Top 10 in the fall of 2021.
In the beginning of 2021, Winslow starred as Jake Doyle in what would be the HBO Max 2021 holiday hit 8-Bit Christmas with Neal Patrick Harris, Steve Zahn, and June Diane Raphael.
Dalmar Abuzeid (born October 23, 1990) is a Canadian actor. He initially became known for portraying Danny Van Zandt in Degrassi: The Next Generation. In 2019, he earned acclaim for his performance in the Netflix series Anne with an E, winning an ACTRA Award and a Canadian Screen Award. With this role, Abuzeid became the first Black actor to perform in the history of the Anne of Green Gables media franchise.
