Jeff Lipskys Adopt Films Picks Up Mighty Fine As Third Acquisition

Adopt Films has acquired the US theatrical rights to Debbie Goodsteins semi-autobiographical coming-of-age comedy-drama Mighty Fine, the distributor’s co-managing executive Jeff Lipsky announced.Set in the 1970s,Mighty Fine is the story of Joe Fine, a high-spirited man who relocates his family wife Stella, daughters Nathalie and Maddie from Brooklyn to New Orleans in search of a better life and palatial home, but his dreams and extravagance far exceed his means.Chazz Palminteri (Bullets Over Broadway, A Bronx Tale) and Andie MacDowell (sex lies and videotape, Groundhog Day) play the parents, and Jodelle Ferland (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Tideland) and Rainey Qualley (MacDowells daughter in her debut) play the daughters.Adopt plans a2012 Memorial Day weekend platform rollout. Goodstein helmed the 1988 Holocaust-themed documentary Voices from the Attic and wrote 1991s Emmy-nominated Saying Kaddish. Mighty Fine was produced by Ajae Clearway and Kathryn Wallack. Lipsky negotiated the deal with the movies co-executive producer Barbara Goodstein.Mighty Fine is the third title acquired by the newly formed Adopt Films. All were directed by women. The award-winning documentary The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye is slated to open in March, and Anne monds Toronto fest entry Nuit #1 is set for late summer 2012. Minnesota-based Tim Grady and Karen Sternal are Lipskys co-managing executive partners.