

Miranda is $200,000 in debt from college loans, though she seems to spend the money she gets from her sugar daddy, David, on clothes, drugs and other good-time accouterments. Rather foolishly, she has shown up with Sateesh, aka sugar daddy number 2, while David is in town, raising the possibility of a funds freeze. Paint It Black Directed by Amber Tamblyn Drama 1h 37m By Neil Genzlinger A lot of movies about grief prefer that it be neat, orderly, follow certain patterns bottled up. David Cross and Amber Tamblyn at an event for Paint It Black (2016) Close. Graham agrees – he’ll restore the rundown beach house he inherited from Mom, he promises – as we beam thought waves to Tanya – Run! Run! – a single mother barely making ends meet by dressing as an Elizabethan wench (!) in the local theme bar. Their fragile truce is upended with the arrival of Miranda, as free-wheeling as Tanya is uptight.

Tanya and Graham are the central, and least likable, characters in Gina Gionfriddo’s Can You Forgive Her?, a Victorian tale (what’s a girl with few prospects gotta do to survive?) tricked out in contemporary drag. With Paint It Black, which was produced by Wren Arthur, now available to view on VOD and can be purchased on iTunes, Refinery29 caught up with Tamblyn on the phone to talk about the film. Though the women were linked by Michael's life Josie (Alia Shawkat) was his girlfriend and. That’s not good enough for Tanya, who chooses Halloween night to tell her somewhat aimless, twice-divorced boyfriend Graham that if he wants her hand in marriage, he needs to prove he’s got the cojones can support her. Paint It Black is the story of two women's lives in the wake of a shared loved one's sudden suicide. Tamblyn tells NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro about how she convinced Fitch to let her adapt it. “Marry the man today/And change his ways tomorrow,” Adelaide advises Sarah in Guys And Dolls. Amber Tamblyn's directorial debut, Paint It Black, is adapted from Janet Fitch's novel of the same name.
