"I Heart Huckabees" is directed and co-written by David O. Russell. Russell's first film, "Spanking the Monkey," premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Sundance Audience Award in 1994. It also was named Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay at the Independent Spirit Awards. His second film was the acclaimed comedy, "Flirting with Disaster." "Three Kings" came out in 1999 and appeared in over 100 critic's top ten lists and won the Boston Film Critic's Association's Best Film of the Year. The film marks co- writer Jeff Baena's first feature film screenplay put into production.
Producers on the film are Oscar-nominated Scott Rudin, Gregory Goodman and David O. Russell, with Michael Kuhn as executive producer. The director of photography is Peter Deming and the production designer is KK Barrett. The entire shoot will take place in Los Angeles and is set to wrap in early September 2003.
In "I Heart Huckabees," a husband-and-wife team (Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin) play detective, but not in the traditional sense. Instead, the happy duo helps others solve their existential issues, the kind that keep you up at night, wondering what it all means...
The film is being produced and financed by N1 European Film Produktions- GmbH & Co. KG with production advisory services supplied by Qwerty Films Limited. The project was brought to Fox Searchlight Pictures by Claudia Lewis, Executive Vice President of Production.
