Estranged family members thrown back together in the crucible of terminal illness are not exactly a new concept in cinema – the challenge comes with how you treat the subject. Kodachrome opts for cranky exchanges, life lessons and Ed Harris on a mission, and the trailer has arrived.
Harris here play Ben Ryder, a famed bad boy photojournalist whose work has become legendary. But for his son Matt (Jason Sudeikis), he's been less than the idea father. After a decade of no contact, struggling record executive Matt received a visit from his father's nurse, Zoe (Elizabeth Olsen), who announces that Ben is dying and has a request to make of his son: help him take his remaining rolls of Kodachrome film to Kansas for processing before the last lab that can handle the format closes down. And, it goes without saying, before Ben himself dies.
The stage is set for some back-and-forth and bonding, and perhaps the chance for Matt to sort out some of his own life, even as he unpick's his dad's attitude.
Mark Raso's in the director's chair, with Jonathan Tropper's script partly inspired by a 2010 New York Times article by AG Sulzberger titled For Kodachrome Fans, Road Ends At Photo Lab In Kansas. The film will hit Netflix on 20 April.
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