It's been well over a year since Sam Raimi dropped the expensive and underwhelming "Oz The Great And Powerful." And it looks like the filmmaker generally known for his genre flicks and big pieces of fantasy entertainment, is taking a turn down the dramedy path.
Deadline reports that Raimi will helm a Mike White penned adaptation of "Silver Linings Playbook" author Matthew Quick's upcoming book "Love May Fail." It's another story of quirkier characters in quirkier circumstances overcoming life's failings. Here's the official synopsis:
An aspiring feminist and underappreciated housewife embarks on an odyssey to find human decency and goodness—and her high school English teacher—in New York Times bestselling author Matthew Quick’s offbeat masterpiece, a quirky ode to love, fate, and hair metal.
Portia Kane is having a meltdown. After escaping her ritzy Florida life and her cheating pornographer husband, she finds herself back in South Jersey, a place...