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- B.J. Novak, Issa Rae, Ashton Kutcher
- October 7th 2022
- B.J. Novak
The Office star B.J. Novak makes his directorial debut with black comedy Vengeance, which he also wrote and stars in.
After racking up writing and directing credits on TV shows like The Office and The Mindy Project, it was only a matter of time before B.J. Novak wrote and directed his own feature.
In this black comedy, he stars as Ben, a journalist for The New Yorker who is desperate to land a podcast series. Thankfully for him, the perfect fodder for an investigative show falls in his lap – he receives a call informing him that his girlfriend Abilene ‘Abby’ (Lio Tipton) has died of a drug overdose.
Ben is allergic to commitment and only hooked up with Abby a few times, but he decides to fly from New York to rural Texas to attend the funeral and pretend to her family that they were a couple.
After the funeral, Abby’s brother Ty (Boyd Holbrook) asks Ben for his help – he believes Abby didn’t die of a drug overdose and he wants to know what happened. After getting commissioned by podcasting queen Eloise (Issa Rae), Ben decides to stick around...
