The Fabelmans (2022)
The Fabelmans is a film loosely based on the life of a young Steven Spielberg, with Gabriel Labelle playing the role of 16-year-old aspiring filmmaker Sammy Fabelman. Fictionalizing but treading essential moments in the director's life, The Fabelmans is set in the 1960s with the titular family moving from New Jersey to California, where a dark secret begins to cause the life of young Sammy to unravel. To escape the reality he's faced with, he turns to films and reinforces a new dream - the aspiration of becoming a filmmaker. The film allows the director and the audience to look back on the past and try to understand the motivations of family members' various actions by contextualizing them through the lens of film.
The Fabelmans
- Director
- Steven Spielberg
- Release Date
- November 23, 2022
- Studio(s)
- Universal Pictures
- Distributor(s)
- Universal Pictures
- Cast
- Paul Dano , Gabriel LaBelle , Seth Rogen , Judd Hirsch , Nicolas Cantu , Michelle Williams , Gabriel Bateman , Sam Rechner , Oakes Fegley , Julia Butters
- Writers
- Steven Spielberg , Tony Kushner
- Runtime
- 151 minutes
- Budget
- $40 million
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