a different man
OPENS AT METROGRAPH january 4

Metrograph is pleased to announce a limited engagement of a different man, starting january 4.

Winner of Best Feature at the 2024 Gotham Awards, Schimberg’s mordantly funny, sui generis satire stars Sebastian Stan as Edward, an aspiring actor with severe facial disfigurement resulting from neurofibromatosis, who starts a new life under a new name after his looks are radically altered by an experimental medical procedure. His changed appearance gives Edward-now going by “Guy”-the confidence to pursue romance with playwright ex-neighbor Renate Reinsve, who is producing a play based on the life of the presumed-dead Edward, but as rehearsals begin, the appearance of Oswald (an excellent Adam Pearson), an upbeat and gregarious man who also happens to have neurofibromatosis, threatens to upend Guy’s belief in his fairy tale post-transformation life.

An A24 release.