Dan Levy Dagerman

The Games of Night (2008)

A young boy lies awake at night waiting for his drunken dad to come home. Listening to his mom's sobs, the boy imagines himself the hero, rescuing the father from his drinking buddies and bringing him home. When the father finally comes home for real, instead of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dan Levy Dagerman
CAST:  Roy DeVito

A young boy lies awake at night waiting for his drunken dad to come home. Listening to his mom's sobs, the boy imagines himself the hero, rescuing the father from his drinking buddies and bringing him home. When the father finally comes home for real, instead of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dan Levy Dagerman
CAST:  Roy DeVito

Our Need for Consolation (2012)

Swedish writer Stig Dagerman (1923-1954) was a literary sensation who after a few productive years, suddenly fell silent. Struggling with writer's block, Dagerman wrote the essay "Our Need for Consolation" about his inner demons and his quest for freedom. For the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dan Levy Dagerman
CAST:  Stellan Skarsgård  •  Filip Hammarström

Swedish writer Stig Dagerman (1923-1954) was a literary sensation who after a few productive years, suddenly fell silent. Struggling with writer's block, Dagerman wrote the essay "Our Need for Consolation" about his inner demons and his quest for freedom. For the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dan Levy Dagerman
CAST:  Stellan Skarsgård  •  Filip Hammarström

The Best People (2017)

Just as she is recovering from a breakdown, Anna's world is rocked when her younger sister gets engaged. She teams up with the alcoholic best man to break up the engagement, convinced they are trying to save her sister, his best friend, and themselves from a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dan Levy Dagerman
CAST:  Joseph D. Reitman  •  Bianca A. Santos  •  Brittany S. Hall  •  Elle Evans

Just as she is recovering from a breakdown, Anna's world is rocked when her younger sister gets engaged. She teams up with the alcoholic best man to break up the engagement, convinced they are trying to save her sister, his best friend, and themselves from a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dan Levy Dagerman
CAST:  Joseph D. Reitman  •  Bianca A. Santos  •  Brittany S. Hall  •  Elle Evans

Mere Players (2016)

To prepare for his acting roles, Meisner actor Jerome goes on blind dates with his gay roommate's unsuspecting girlfriends. After three professionally successful but romantically disastrous dates as a bum, a corporate jerk, and an OCD out-patient, Jerome faces the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dan Levy Dagerman
CAST: 

To prepare for his acting roles, Meisner actor Jerome goes on blind dates with his gay roommate's unsuspecting girlfriends. After three professionally successful but romantically disastrous dates as a bum, a corporate jerk, and an OCD out-patient, Jerome faces the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dan Levy Dagerman
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Single Mother by Choice (2021)

Tracking a real-life pregnancy, this fictional film tells the story of a Latinx workaholic who’s determined to have a baby on her own terms and gets more than she bargained for when she gets pregnant in the year 2020.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dan Levy Dagerman
CAST:  Selina Ringel  •  Roberto Aguire  •  Vanessa Angel  •  Arap Bethke

Tracking a real-life pregnancy, this fictional film tells the story of a Latinx workaholic who’s determined to have a baby on her own terms and gets more than she bargained for when she gets pregnant in the year 2020.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dan Levy Dagerman
CAST:  Selina Ringel  •  Roberto Aguire  •  Vanessa Angel  •  Arap Bethke