Night Has Settled (2014)
In 1983, Oliver Nicholas, at thirteen, is well-poised to enter the precocious teenage world of first-sex, vodka and possible-love in New York City when he is traumatized by the stroke of his housekeeper (and only true maternal figure), a sixty-five-year-old Chilean woman named Aida. What was supposed to be an exhilarating and somewhat fearful rite of passage - diving into the exciting, fast-paced world of first experiences - quickly becomes skewed by an incomprehensible depression, and a house of interior horrors. Surrounded by women - his untraditional, Spanish, photographer mother (more interested in the role of confidante than mother) his sister, a comedic, door-slamming tormentor, marked by her parent's divorce; and Aida, his silver-haired emotional focal point on the verge of death in Lenox Hill Hospital - Oliver struggles to maintain his role as "man of the house" and his sanity.
Director: Steve Clark
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Spencer List as Oliver Nicholas |
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Pilar López de Ayala as Luna Nicholas |
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Adriana Barraza as Aida |
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Eric Nelson as Valerio |
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Courtney Baxter as Adriana Nicholas |
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Tommy Nelson as Nick |
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Heather Braverman as Lila |
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Marlee Roberts as Annabel |
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Irwin I. Shanah as Hospital Patient |
| Directing | Steve Clark | Director |
| Writing | Steve Clark | Writer |
| Production | Milan Chakraborty | Producer |
| Production | Steve Clark | Producer |
| Production | Carlos Velazquez | Producer |
| Sound | Tony Morales | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Adolfo Doring | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Melody London | Editor |
| Production | Stephanie Holbrook | Casting |
| Art | Sophie Tabet | Production Design |
| Art | Keith Garvey | Art Direction |
| Art | Sara Newman | Set Decoration |
| Art | Juliette Seydoux | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Nikia Nelson | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Mia Bauman | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Leslie Bloome | Foley Artist |