“I Don’t Understand You” stars Nick Kroll and Andrew Rannells want people to see their new comedy — which Vertical released in theaters June 6 — in a dark room with a full audience, the way it was meant to be seen.
“The best movies to see in the theater are the ones that make you laugh collectively and get scared shitless collectively, and this film has both of those feelings in spades,” Kroll told Los Angeles Magazine.
To call “I Don’t Understand You” just a comedy, however, might be a misnomer. The film — which premiered last year at SXSW and also played at the Overlook Film Festival — is a tough movie to categorize without doling out spoilers. Suffice to say, Kroll and Rannells play soon-to-be adoptive dads on a “babymoon” in Italy. Things go horribly, horribly wrong.
“It was exciting [when] we got to take this film to SXSW last year, and that was the first time we’d seen it with an audience, so it was super satisfying to see their surprise,” Rannells said in an interview with The Playlist.
He also said that, despite some nefarious choices make in the movie, fans seem to stick with the characters straight to the end.
“The few times we have seen it with an audience, they are strangely going along with us and rooting for us to get away with it,” Rannells added.
What “it” is, audiences will have to see for themselves in theaters.
Written and directed by real-life husbands David Joseph Craig and Brian Crano, the story is partially based on true events.
“The first act of the film is sort of autobiographical,” Craig told L.A. Magazine. “We were going on our 10th anniversary trip to Italy, and right before the trip we found out we had matched with [a] birth mother and that she was due in a couple weeks. We decided to make [the trip] our babymoon. And on the night of our actual anniversary, we were driving to this remote pizza restaurant, and Brian directed me off the side of the road and we got stuck in a ditch for about five hours.”
What happened to the pair next was most certainly not what happens to their cinematic counterparts.
Be forewarned, the trailer may spoil some of the film’s many twists, but here it is:
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