Bernadette is missing. In a new trailer for Whered You Go, Bernadette, the adaptation of Maria Semples best-selling novel, Cate Blanchett tackles the titular role, playing an architect who suddenly disappears from home. Her family, comprised of genius, Microsoft-employed husband Elgie (played by Billy Crudup) and precocious teen daughter Bee (Emma Nelson), start putting the pieces together, tracing the problem back to Bees request to go on a trip to Antarctica as a reward for her perfect grades.
Bernadettes disappearance becomes the talk of the town, gossiped about by her neighbors Audrey (Kristen Wiig) and Soo-Lin (Zoe Chao). The rest of the cast is rounded out by Laurence Fishburne, James Urbaniak, Troian Bellisario, and Judy Greer. Also worth mentioning is Blanchetts blunt wig, the chill cousin to her severe, Velma Kelly–esque look in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Its a simple, unfussy style that even an Oscar winner has no business pulling off, and yet!
Whered You Go, Bernadette does not yet have a specific release date, but it is slated to come out in the spring. Should it do well at the box office, it could be a nice coup for Annapurna Pictures, a distributor that has been struggling in the last few months. The company has relinquished two high-profile films—Jay Roachs Roger Ailes drama and Jennifer Lopezs The Hustlers at Scores—and lost its head of production, Chelsea Barnard, all in a matter of weeks, major signs that trouble is afoot. At the moment, the company is pushing two Oscar contenders: If Beale Street Could Talk and Vice, both of which could lend Annapurna some much-needed box-office success. Whered You Go, Bernadette is another such film, boasting all the trappings of a hit; it might also be a relieving bit of counter-programming to all the franchise behemoths that eat up theaters in the spring.
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Dave Chappelle
You may remember Chappelle better than most of the other actors on this list; he played Joe Foxs best friend, Kevin, and therefore logged a little more screen time than, say, Chris Messina (whom well get to in a few). Chappelles shining moment? Being the first to find out that Joes online crush, “Shopgirl,” is, in fact, his competitor, Kathleen Kelly. As he tells Joe seconds later, “If you dont like Kathleen Kelly, I can tell you right now: you aint gonna like this girl.”Photo: From Warner Bros/Everett Collection.
Sara Ramirez
Before she became one of Seattles premier orthopedic surgeons on Greys Anatomy, Sara Ramirez played a woman who worked at Zabars, facing a cashiers worst nightmare: a customer (Ryans Kathleen) who wants to pay with a credit card, despite being in a cash-only line.
Steve Zahn
As you may remember, Kathleen had a couple co-workers at The Shop Around the Corner—both of whom try to help her figure out who her Godfather-obsessed chat-room beau might be. One of them? A shaggy-maned Steve Zahn.Photo: From Warner Bros/Everett Collection.
Jane Adams
Who better to lure Greg Kinnear away from Ryan than another brainy, neurotic woman who looks great in tights and turtlenecks? Just a year before her high-strung turn on Frasier, Adams appears ever so briefly, and uncredited, as TV host Sydney Anne, who has a not-very-professional crush on Kinnears Frank Navasky.
Jeffrey Scaperrotta
As the young Matt Fox, Scaperrotta gets to deliver one of the most enjoyable and quotable lines of the movie: F-O-X. He would go on to play Elliot Stablers son Dickie in the much less family-friendly Law & Order: S.V.U.Photo: From Warner Bros/Everett Collection.
Jean Stapleton
All in the Family star Stapleton, who started out in musical theater, played Birdie Conrad—whose name is the mirror image of the Elvis-esque heartthrob in Bye Bye Birdie. Only Nora and Delia Ephron know if this is some obscure reference to the fact that actress Maureen Stapleton, commonly thought to be Jeans sister but actually no relation to her, appeared in the 1963 Birdie film.Photo: From Warner Bros/Everett Collection.
Chris Messina
Both this gallery and the movie saved the best for last. A fresh-faced Chris Messina pops up toward the end as a clueless Fox books employee who doesnt know Ballet Shoes from Skating Shoes. Many years later, in the Season 2 finale of Messinas sitcom The Mindy Project, show-runner and die-hard Youve Got Mail fan Mindy Kaling cast Messina as the NY152 to her Shopgirl in a half-hour homage to all things Ephron.PreviousNext
Dave Chappelle
You may remember Chappelle better than most of the other actors on this list; he played Joe Foxs best friend, Kevin, and therefore logged a little more screen time than, say, Chris Messina (whom well get to in a few). Chappelles shining moment? Being the first to find out that Joes online crush, “Shopgirl,” is, in fact, his competitor, Kathleen Kelly. As he tells Joe seconds later, “If you dont like Kathleen Kelly, I can tell you right now: you aint gonna like this girl.”From Warner Bros/Everett Collection.
Sara Ramirez
Before she became one of Seattles premier orthopedic surgeons on Greys Anatomy, Sara Ramirez played a woman who worked at Zabars, facing a cashiers worst nightmare: a customer (Ryans Kathleen) who wants to pay with a credit card, despite being in a cash-only line.
Steve Zahn
As you may remember, Kathleen had a couple co-workers at The Shop Around the Corner—both of whom try to help her figure out who her Godfather-obsessed chat-room beau might be. One of them? A shaggy-maned Steve Zahn.From Warner Bros/Everett Collection.
Jane Adams
Who better to lure Greg Kinnear away from Ryan than another brainy, neurotic woman who looks great in tights and turtlenecks? Just a year before her high-strung turn on Frasier, Adams appears ever so briefly, and uncredited, as TV host Sydney Anne, who has a not-very-professional crush on Kinnears Frank Navasky.
Heather Burns
From Warner Bros/Everett Collection.
Jeffrey Scaperrotta
As the young Matt Fox, Scaperrotta gets to deliver one of the most enjoyable and quotable lines of the movie: F-O-X. He would go on to play Elliot Stablers son Dickie in the much less family-friendly Law & Order: S.V.U.From Warner Bros/Everett Collection.
Jean Stapleton
All in the Family star Stapleton, who started out in musical theater, played Birdie Conrad—whose name is the mirror image of the Elvis-esque heartthrob in Bye Bye Birdie. Only Nora and Delia Ephron know if this is some obscure reference to the fact that actress Maureen Stapleton, commonly thought to be Jeans sister but actually no relation to her, appeared in the 1963 Birdie film.From Warner Bros/Everett Collection.
Chris Messina
Both this gallery and the movie saved the best for last. A fresh-faced Chris Messina pops up toward the end as a clueless Fox books employee who doesnt know Ballet Shoes from Skating Shoes. Many years later, in the Season 2 finale of Messinas sitcom The Mindy Project, show-runner and die-hard Youve Got Mail fan Mindy Kaling cast Messina as the NY152 to her Shopgirl in a half-hour homage to all things Ephron.
Yohana DestaYohana Desta is a Hollywood writer for VanityFair.com.
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