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NATE MEYER
(SEE GIRL RUN)


There’s an abundance of films at the 2012 RiverRun International Film Festival that balance comedy with drama, including Fred Schepisi’s The Eye of the Storm and Martha Stephens’ Pilgrim Song.


You can add writer/director/UNCSA alumnus Nate Meyer’s See Girl Run to the list. What initially appears to be a prototypical romantic comedy, in which unhappily
married Robin Tunney reconnects with her high-school flame Adam Scott, undoubtedly has its humorous moments but also some surprisingly dramatic ones, as Tunney’s character Emmie comes to grips with her life — and not always painlessly.
The film also stars Josh Hamilton as Emmie’s husband Graham, left behind in New York; Adam Strong as Emmie’s alcoholic brother Brandon; and William Sadler and Maureen Butler as Emmie and Brandon’s parents, whose relationship isn’t what it appears on the surface. Meyer couldn’t be more pleased with his cast.
“There are better-known actors, but for almost every role I can’t imagine anyone better,” he said. “They felt something about the story, they responded to it. I was very fortunate.”
One of the most difficult roles to cast was that of the father, Marty. Meyer met with several actors — “some of very well known,” he noted — but couldn’t quite land his Marty. It got to the point, he admitted, that the clock was ticking and he considered rewriting the role. Then one of his producers suggested Sadler.
“I said, Tthe bad guy from Die Hard 2’?” Meyer recalled with a laugh. “I’d seen him in other films like The Shawshank Redemption, so I knew he was versatile. He’s just authentic, and that comes across. When he read the dialogue aloud, I was so relieved because I knew he was it. He was a joy. He just made that character. I would work with him again any time.”
Balancing the story’s dramatic and comedic elements was important to Meyer. “There’s a temptation to promote and distribute it as a romantic comedy, but it works against a lot of the conventions. It’s a romantic comedy/romantic drama. I wanted to tweak what audiences might expect it to be.”
Given the dual tone of the story, Meyer tended not to encourage improvisation among his cast. “Something like this has very strong themes I had in mind, within the context and understanding of the story. Now I absolutely want lots of ideas from the actors. We talked about a lot of things, and they brought a lot of ideas to it.
“I love this film,” he laughed. “I certainly don’t expect everybody to love it as much as I do, but the essence of why I wanted to make this movie is all there. It’s the story I wanted to tell, told the way I wanted to.”
Meyer graduated from the School of Filmmaking in 1998, one of the first graduating classes. At that time, he said, the school was still finding its identity. Admitting that his senior film was far from his best work — “I wish no one could see it,” he quipped — it did have the desired effect an important learning experience. “I learned how not to make a movie and how I don’t want to make a movie,” he said, noting that he wasn’t prepared to deal with the compromises inherent in filmmaking, even student films. “Don’t go on the set and expect that things will simply work out by themselves, because they won’t.”
His years at UNCSA taught him “to be always working,” he said. “Don’t wait for anyone to ask you. Always be doing. It’s not going to magically happen. That was one of the real benefits of the school: It has great resources. We were a band of like-minded students. We lived and breathed production non-stop.”
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See Girl Run : Directed by Nate Meyer.


They say you can’t go home again, but Emmie’s going to give it a try.

As played by Robin Tunney in writer/director and UNCSA School of Filmmaking alumnus Nate Meyer’s second feature film, Emmie is a character stuck in flux. Her marriage to Graham (Josh Hamilton) has grown stagnant, and impulsively she returns to her childhood home to renew acquaintance with her high-school flame, Jason (Adam Scott).

Clearly, and refreshingly, deeper and more grown-up than the usual “high-concept” Hollywood romantic comedy, See Girl Run boasts good performances down the line, especially Jeremy Strong as Emmie’s brother and the always welcome William Sadler as their father, whose off-handed wisdom (“‘What-ifs’ will make you crazy”) offers Emmie a hint to put her life back in order. Aubrey Dollar, Marylouise Burke, Larry Pine acquit themselves well in smaller roles, and Meagan Moses (Meyer’s reallife wife) is hilarious as a childhood friend of Emmie’s who’s even more screwed up than she is — only she doesn’t know it.