TIFF ’12: Tribeca Film Acquires ‘The Fitzgerald Family Christmas’

Today, Tribeca Film announced it’s acquisition of the new Ed Burns film, The Fitzgerald Family Christmas, which has it’s premier in just a few days at the Toronto International Film Festival. Like most of his work, Burns wrote, directed, and stars in the film, with Connie Britton and Michael McGlone co-starring. Both actors co-starred opposite Burns in his previous film The Brothers McMullen.Ed Burns’ last film, Newlyweds, just cam out last year, and was ranked one of the top selling VOD films of 2011, and Tribeca aims to do the same with this release, with a late-November premiere across multiple platforms.

Here’s the full synopsis provided by Tribeca:

With The Fitzgerald Family Christmas, Burns returns to the working-class, Irish-American roots of The Brothers McMullen. Reuniting with McMullen co-stars Connie Britton (“Friday Night Lights”), and Michael McGlone, along with Noah Emmerich (Little Children, Beautiful Girls), Kerry Bishé (Argo, Red State) and Caitlin FitzGerald (Damsels in Distress, Newlyweds) Burns seamlessly weaves an ensemble story of adult siblings dealing with the desire of their estranged father (Ed Lauter, The Artist, The Longest Yard) to return home for Christmas for the first time since he walked out on his family 20 years ago. Family rifts emerge, and like with any family, Christmas brings a mixed bag of complicated emotions and dynamics. Alliances form, old wounds are reopened or glossed over, and the possibility for a new hope and forgiveness emerges.