After getting fired from his job, a 30something paralegal finds a new gig as a "manny" for a wealthy family in this SXSW ...

Matthew Shear makes an auspicious feature debut with a portrait of an actress (Amanda Peet) and her babysitter who feel as if ...

Fantasy Life's Matthew Shear, Amanda Peet & Alessandro Nivola discuss mental health, blending comedy with reality & ...

Matthew Shear, Amanda Peet and Alessandro Nivola talk “Fantasy Life” at the L.A. Times studio at the 2025 SXSW Film Festival. Peet touches on how films seem to finally be focusing on what women want, ...

A review of 'Fantasy Life' , the writing and directing debut of Matthew Shear who also stars in this NY-centric comedy about ...

The narrative feature jury, which included IndieWire’s own Executive Editor Ryan Lattanzio, also gave Annapurna Sriram’s ...

With Amanda Peet in a remarkable star turn ... that pierced me right then and there on the spot. Maybe, then, Fantasy Life is a heroine’s picture after all — just one that eventually becomes ...

It isn’t hyperbole to say that Amanda Peet gives the performance of a lifetime in “Fantasy Life.” There probably shouldn’t be any confusion between the actress and the role she inhabits as ...

With Amanda Peet in a remarkable star turn ... and it’s one of the few moments in the movie that pierced me right then and there on the spot. Maybe, then, Fantasy Life is a heroine’s picture after all ...