Oscilloscope Picks Up Tribeca Award Winner Monogamy

Continuing its strong run of theatrical acquisitions and the entertaining PR that accompanies it, Oscilloscope Pictures today announced that it picked up the drama Monogamy for release next year. Director Dana Adam Shapiro's (Murderball) narrative feature debut won Best NY Film at this year's Tribeca Film Festival, which is kind of an understatement; the Chris Messina/Rashida Jones relationship/surveillance intrigue was probably the best thing I saw during the entire fest. Not to be outdone, the occasion's requisite jokes from Shapiro and O-scope founder Adam Yauch follow the jump.

Increasingly anxious about his impending marriage to Nat (Jones) and thoroughly bored with his day job as a wedding photographer, Theo (Messina) establishes a hobby: he's hired by clients to clandestinely snap voyeuristic photos of them as they go about their days. Things go smoothly until a sexy exhibitionist (Meital Dohan) leads him into an all-consuming obsession. Stalking her day and night, the woman's mysterious public trysts send Theo reeling, forcing him to confront uncomfortable truths about his sex life at home. Monogamy is an acutely observed portrait of a relationship on the brink, a timely tale of masculinity in crisis in the face of fantasy and fear of commitment. [...]

Dana Adam Shapiro said, ""Since 1987 I've been mad at my parents for not letting me see the Beastie Boys on their License to Ill tour. Years later, I applied for a job at Grand Royal magazine; didn't get it. To now be in business with Oscilloscope is seriously a dream come true for me."

Adam Yauch, head of Oscilloscope said, "I hear you, man. When I was 13 my parents didn't let me go see KISS at the Garden, and I'm still mad about that. If Peter Criss starts a film distribution company, I'm making a film for him."

Huzzah. More to come on this one closer to its opening in early 2011...

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