The Paper Store is a 2016 drama film directed by Nicholas Gray, and written by Gray and Katharine Clark Gray, adapted from the latter's play 516. The film is produced by Jonathan Gray, John Grossman (NYPS), and casting director Bonnie Timmermann and stars Stef Dawson, Penn Badgley, and Richard Kind.
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Directed by | Nicholas Gray |
Screenplay by | Nicholas Gray Katharine Clark Gray |
Based on | 516 by Katharine Clark Gray |
Produced by | Jonathan Gray John Grossman Bonnie Timmermann |
Starring | Stef Dawson Penn Badgley Richard Kind |
Cinematography | Richard Sands |
Edited by | Ariel Roubinov |
Music by | Carl Cheeseman |
Production companies | Actium Pictures Bonnie Timmermann Productions Front Wheel Productions Uncompromised Creative |
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Running time | 97 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
A revenge tale about a former college student who forges essays for money, the grad student who becomes her lover, and the professor who discovers their scheme.[1]
The Paper Store is a film adaptation of Katharine Clark Gray's play 516 (five-sixteen), workshopped at the New York International Fringe Festival in 2007,[2] with four out of five stars on Time Out (magazine).[3] 516 received its first professional debut through Philadelphia Theater Workshop in 2010, culminating in plans to adapt the play into a film shortly thereafter.
Katharine and her husband, Nicholas Gray, were producing partners at A Chip & A Chair Films (If You Could Say It In Words) for eight years before branching off to create Uncompromised Creative. The company partnered with producers Jonathan Gray, Bonnie Timmermann, John Grossman, executive producer Bruce Meyerson, and co-executive producers Actium Pictures and Matthew Bronson, to make The Paper Store, Uncompromised Creative's feature debut.[1]
Filming took place in New York City and Syracuse, NY. The interiors of all three leads' homes were shot on the re-decorated apartment sets from Broad City (2014).[4]
Video on-demand-rights were licensed by Flix Premiere. The film was released on June 9, 2017 in the United States and June 17 in the United Kingdom. On July 24, 2018 the movie became widely available via Amazon and iTunes on V.O.D., with DVD release to follow on October 9, 2018.