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CinemaBlend It kind of feels like all of us have been trapped in Long Weekend. Which helps to make the new indie romantic escape from writer-director Stephen Basilone so welcome at a time like now. So much of our entertainment consumption has been about bingeworthy TV shows and blockbusters that were supposed to come to theaters but now appear in our living rooms. We miss the modest-budgeted, character-driven and high-concept stories, the ones you’d discover at a film festival and spend w...

Finn Wittrock and Zoe Chao are a winning duo in sweet romantic comedy

The coronavirus pandemic has had a major impact on the film industry. Movie theaters continue to operate with enhanced health and safety measures, following CDC recommended COVID-19 safety guidelines. Some

Finn Wittrock and Zoe Chao stars as two strangers whose chance encounter leads to complications in the genre-bending "Long Weekend."

There’s something about Vienna. Something off, that is. The love interest of writer-director Stephen Basilone’s “Long Weekend,” Vienna, as played by Zoe Chao (who has perfected the art of quirky ’n’ cute) is just too good to be true. She looks adorable in vintage tees. She goes to Peter Sellers movies alone in the middle of the day. She invites a stranger, Bart (Finn Wittrock), to go to a dive bar, where she cuts capers and quips a mile a minute, flirts in a photo booth, doesn’t ...

Finn Wittrock has always tried to pick a role thats opposite of the one he just played, assuming the cosmos align to give him those opportunities. He does believe in chance, but he has oscillated from cyber mogul Cameron Tyler on Law & Order: SVU to prostitute Dale in Masters of Sex, killer-clown-in-training Dandy Mott in American Horror Story to the U.S. Air Force soldier Mac in Unbroken, and Judy Garlands fifth husband Mickey Deans in Judy to auto body detailer Jaeger in Semper Fi. His ...