Named One of the Top Ten Films of 2002 by the National Board of Review

Director Jill Sprecher’s second feature, THIRTEEN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ONE THING, had its U.S. premiere at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival as part of the American Showcase section. Previously, the film screened at the 58th Annual Venice International Film Festival as part of the festival's Cinema of the Present Competition and at the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival in the Special Presentations division. The film - now available on VHS and DVD through Columbia TriStar Home Video - was Sony Pictures Classics' most successful release of 2002.

The film, co-written by Jill and Karen Sprecher, was shot on location in New York City. Echo Lake Productions provided a significant portion of the film’s financing.
The Sprecher sisters’ first film, Clockwatchers, premiered at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival and starred Toni Collette (Shaft, The Sixth Sense), Parker Posey (Josie and the Pussycats, Scream 3), and Lisa Kudrow (Lucky Numbers, Hanging Up). Clockwatchers won the top prize at the 15th Turin International Young Cinema Festival, the first English language film to do so in five years.

THIRTEEN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ONE THING is executive produced by Michael Stipe and Sandy Stern’s Single Cell Pictures (Being John Malkovich) and produced by Gina Resnick and Beni Atoori.

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Here’s what critics had to say about THIRTEEN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ONE THING:

“ Two thumbs up.”
EBERT & ROEPER AND THE MOVIES

“ A brilliant movie.”
Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

“ It grabs you hard... Sprecher reaches deep in the minds and hearts of
her characters in a haunting and hypnotic film.”
Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE

“ Thrillingly smart.”
A. O. Scott, THE NEW YORK TIMES

“ Tautly written, resolutely low-key, intricately constructed, and very
serious... An overwhelming sense of reality atypical of the American cinema...
Dares to be philosophical.”
Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES

“ Luminous and strangely beautiful.”
Emma Forrest, VANITY FAIR

“ A major achievement and something to get excited about...
The Sprechers' artistic breakthrough.”
Mick LaSalle, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

CAST

Matthew McConaughey
(Sahara; The Wedding Planner, U-571)

Alan Arkin
(Ocean’s Eleven, Gattaca, Grosse Pointe Blank)

John Turturro
(Mr. Deeds; O Brother, Where Art Thou?; Summer of Sam)

Amy Irving
(Tuck Everlasting; Traffic, Bossa Nova)

Clea DuVall
(Identity; The Laramie Project; Girl Interrupted)


THIRTEEN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ONE THING - synopsis

A man approaching middle age decides to change his life. A rising young attorney’s plans are thrown into disarray as the result of a single act. A woman faces her husband’s infidelity. An envious businessman seeks revenge on a cheerful coworker. And an optimistic young cleaning woman awaits a miracle. These ordinary people all find themselves asking the fundamental question philosophers have pondered throughout history: What is happiness, and how does one achieve it?

THIRTEEN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ONE THING weaves five contemporary stories together into a single tale that examines the dramatic impact people have on each other’s lives. In a carefully constructed narrative that criss-crosses in time and doubles back on itself, the audience is allowed an unusual glimpse into a character’s past, present, and future in ways that are alternately playful and poignant