Downtown Owl

Downtown Owl is a 2023 American drama film directed by Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater, in their directorial debuts, from a screenplay by Linklater. It is based on the 2008 novel of the same name by Chuck Klosterman. The film is produced by Rabe, Bettina Barrow, Linklater (in his debut production), and Rebecca Green under Kill Claudio Productions, Three Point Capital and Esme Grace Media, in association with Stage 6 Films. It stars Rabe, Ed Harris, Vanessa Hudgens, August Blanco Rosenstein, Jack Dylan Grazer, Finn Wittrock, and Henry Golding. Downtown Owl premiered on June 8, 2023, at the 2023 Tribeca Festival. Premise Set in 1983, in the fictional town of Owl, North Dakota, the story centers around three intangibly connected residents—Horace, an old man who spends his afternoons reminiscing better times from the past at the local coffee shop, Mitch, a depressed high school backup quarterback, and Julia, an English teacher at the local high school who recently moved to Owl—whose lives, along with those of the town’s other residents, are upended by a whiteout blizzard. Cast Lily Rabe as Julia Rabia Ed Harris as Horace Jones August Blanco Rosenstein as Mitch Hrlicka Vanessa Hudgens as Naomi Jack Dylan Grazer as Eli Finn Wittrock as Coach Laidlaw Henry Golding as Vance Druid Ariana Jaffer as Rebecca Arden Michalec as Tina