Collider’s exclusive first trailer turns a 25th birthday, a blood-sugar crash and a vivid imagination into a coming-of-age story.
By The Cinephile — CelebnMusic247
The Quarter trailer has arrived as a Collider exclusive, and it gives the quarter-life crisis something it has never really had: its own movie, built around a condition Hollywood almost never puts at the center of the frame. The indie comedy-drama opens November 13, timed to World Diabetes Day on November 14, per Collider’s exclusive first look at the trailer and poster.
Kelsey Bascom wrote the film from her own experience living with type 1 diabetes, stars as Kelly, and co-directed with Arnon Manor, her collaborator on the web series Mondays. Brooke Shields executive produces and co-stars — a personal project for her, per Collider, because her daughter Rowan Henchy was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes as a teenager. Shields has called it, at the film’s Tribeca Festival panel earlier this year, “one of the first type 1 diabetes movies.”
What the trailer actually sells
Per Collider’s description, Kelly is about to turn 25 and has always been the quiet, solitary type — the librarian’s assistant in high school, even though the book dust set off her asthma. Then a near-death experience from dangerously low blood sugar forces a rethink. She feels more alive inside her own head than in a room full of people, and the film follows her attempt, helped by family, co-workers and an unusually vivid imagination, to bring that inner voice out into her actual life.
That is a shrewd trailer construction. It does not sell a disease-of-the-week drama; it sells a recognizable young-adult crossroads — the birthday that makes you audit your whole life — with the diabetes woven into the daily texture rather than pasted on as a twist. The supporting cast around Bascom, per the film’s trailer announcement, includes Ali Wentworth, Raven-Symoné, Breckin Meyer and Tati Gabrielle, which gives a small film real marquee texture.
Collider notes tickets are available through CinemaVillage.com for the November 13 premiere. For an indie arriving in a season dominated by franchise horror and holiday tentpoles, that small, specific rollout is the right scale: this is a word-of-mouth film, and word of mouth starts with exactly this kind of trailer.
The 247 Take — Quarter’s smartest move is casting its condition as a character, not a climax. If the film plays as honestly as its trailer, Bascom will have done what she set out to do at Tribeca — made the first type 1 diabetes movie that people actually quote.
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Sources: Collider
