Fantasy Life's Matthew Shear, Amanda Peet & Alessandro Nivola discuss mental health, blending comedy with reality & ...

After getting fired from his job, a 30something paralegal finds a new gig as a "manny" for a wealthy family in this SXSW ...

Matthew Shear makes an auspicious feature debut with a portrait of an actress (Amanda Peet) and her babysitter who feel as if ...

Narrative Feature Competition Director: Matthew Shear Logline: After losing his job as a paralegal, Sam Stein suffers a panic ...

Three of the more purely enjoyable films to play at this year’s SXSW didn’t premiere with star-studded red carpets at the ...

Against that framing, the SXSW debut Fantasy Life plays, accidentally, like the flip side to that equation, with its focus on his perspective and its less starry-eyed, more downbeat tone.

That should give you a sense of how much Sam (Matthew Shear) has going for himself in “Fantasy Life.” A once-promising law student whose crippling anxiety has slowed his legal career ...

It isn’t hyperbole to say that Amanda Peet gives the performance of a lifetime in “Fantasy Life.” There probably shouldn’t be any confusion between the actress and the role she inhabits as ...

Instead, “Fantasy Life” opens with Shear himself as Sam, a timid tax lawyer who finds out he’s being let go from his job. A visit to his therapist Fred (Judd Hirsch) reveals he has plenty of ...

It isn’t hyperbole to say that Amanda Peet gives the performance of a lifetime in “Fantasy Life.” There probably shouldn’t be any confusion between the actress and the role she inhabits as Dianne, a ...

Against that framing, the SXSW debut Fantasy Life plays, accidentally, like the flip side to that equation, with its focus on his perspective and its less starry-eyed, more downbeat tone. But if the ...