-Anna Kendrick as Cathy Hyatt
-Jeremy Jordan as Jamie Wellerstein
-Natalie Knepp as Alise Michaels
-Betsy Wolfe as Cathy's former stripper roommate[8]
-Sherie Rene Scott as a woman in one of Cathy's auditions
-Kurt Deutsch
-Jason Robert Brown as a pianist in one of Cathy's auditions

How had I not heard about this movie? I'm a big fan of composer Jason Robert Brown, and this is one of his few big shows that I've never seen on stage.

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I saw a local (live) production of this a few months ago. I liked it a lot - it has a really gorgeous score - but it's also one of those shows I don't think I could watch very often. It's just so darn depressing. (I can't imagine how I'll feel if I ever get to see a production of Brown's Parade.)

Anyways... The trailer looks pretty good, and I've heard mostly good word-of-mouth from those who saw it in Toronto. I'm looking forward to see how well it adapts to the big screen.

Limited opening this Friday 2/13.

New poster:

Looks kinda hokey

Well, it's a musical so...

But I'd give Anna Kendrick the pokey

I saw an ad for this on Comcast on demand so it appears it will be available digitally on Friday as well.

Yup.

Kendrick is the queen of VoD these days.

Meaning... what? She's the new Cuba Gooding Jr. in making straight-to-video movies?

More like the Samuel L Jackson of straight-to-video movies: She's in all of them and makes them enticing to check out.

It's amazing to see a musical movie actually being marketed as a musical.

I'm a huge fan of the stage version so I'm excited about this.

I'm beyond stoked it's available day and date on VOD. I can see it on release day and it's way cheaper than going out to the theater.

I guess Life After Beth might qualify for that (which I saw, as you say, partly for Kendrick), but I'm not as up on the DTV schedule as I used to be.

I passed up an opportunity to see this locally when I decided to go out to a sci-fi movie even though I'd never seen the TV series it was based on... Serenity. I don't really regret it because I now love Serenity and Firefly, but I still haven't seen The Last 5 Years.

I saw Parade on tour not long after it was on Broadway. What I didn't expect was that Jason F'ing Brown was conducting in the pit. Awesome! A few years later, he randomly appeared as a guest conductor for a symphony pops concert I was attending so I went backstage and chatted with him. The backstage person thought I was trying to bug the guest artist and was surprised I was asking about the conductor. JRB was in LA working on 13 at the time and flew up to cover someone as a favor. I've seen local high school productions of 13 and Songs for a New World (both well done, but obviously not at a professional level).

Agree, but if it plays around here, I might go anyway to support the project.

Recently she was in Drinking Buddies, Rapture-Palooza, The Voices, Life After Beth, Happy Christmas, and The Last Five Years. I think all of those were straight-to-VOD.

I don't recognize any of those titles other than the two I mentioned. Looks like Drinking Buddies and Happy Christmas were by the same director so maybe she likes him or was doing a favor. Her part in Life After Beth was pretty small so that's probably an easy thing to appear in and move on.

I guess this won't be hitting Seattle any time soon.

Spoilered for size of theatrical schedule pic:

Maybe I'm way off base but it looks like a more musical 500 days of summer to me

After this movie came out on digital the same day it was in limited theatrical release (back in February), the BD is $7.99 on Amazon one day after release. I already bought it on digital, but why not for another eight bucks.

Drinking Buddies is a great movie. Highly recommend it for those who haven't seen it

Very good movie.