Adapted from the novel by Eleanor Henderson, TEN THOUSAND SAINTS is a coming-of-age story about three teenagers in late 1980s New York City — Jude (Asa Butterfield), new to the city from Vermont, “straight-edge” musician Johnny (Emile Hirsch), and troubled, rich uptown girl Eliza (Hailee Steinfeld) — who break away from their messed up parents (Ethan Hawke and Emily Mortimer) to form their own surrogate family. Set in 1988, a time of great cultural upheaval – against the excesses of the decade, the AIDS epidemic and the gentrification of the city culminating in the infamous Tompkins Square Park riots — TEN THOUSAND SAINTS is a nostalgia trip to a bygone era of New York City.
Written and directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, adapted from the novel by Eleanor Henderson, TEN THOUSAND SAINTS stars Hailee Steinfeld, Asa Butterfield, Ethan Hawke, Julianne Nicholson, Avan Jogia, Emile Hirsch and Emily Mortimer.
TEN THOUSAND SAINTS is in theatres and On Demand August 14th, 2015.
