Jennifer Lawrence could be back in the Oscar race with her new film “Causeway,” and our first look at her performance courtesy of the film’s trailer has landed online.
Written by Ottessa Moshfegh & Luke Goebel and Elizabeth Sanders and directed by Broadway veteran Lila Neugebauer, the Apple Original Films and A24 drama follows a military engineer who has returned to the States from Afghanistan with a debilitating brain injury after an IED explosion.
The official synopsis is available here: “It’s a painful and slow recovery as she relearns to walk and re-trains her memory, aided by a chatty but tender caretaker (Jayne Houdyshell). But when she returns home to New Orleans she has to face memories even more aching and formative than those she had in service: a reckoning with her childhood.”
Lawrence’s character meets an auto repair worker played by Brian Tyree Henry when her truck breaks down, and the two strike up a platonic yet deeply connected friendship as they each are struggling through their own trauma.
’s Steve Pond praised the film in his review out of TIFF, saying, “Causeway”Is “a reminder that a subdued, understated Lawrence can be a truly compelling Lawrence.”
You can see the trailer in full. “Causeway”Watch the video As mentioned above. The film will be available in select theatres, and worldwide on Apple TV+ starting Nov. 4.
Linda Emond and Stephen McKinley Henderson are also included in the cast. “Causeway”Produced by Lawrence Ciarrocchi and Justine Ciarrocchi. As executive producers, Neugebauer and Jacob Jaffke, Sophia Lin as well as Christopher J. Surgent, Kirk Michael Fellows, Kirk Michael Fellows, and Patricia Clarkson are all involved.