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Nat co-wrote Lisa Picard is Famous with Laura Kirk. The screenplay caught the interest of Mira Sirvino who brought it to indie darling Dolly Hall (Eye of God, High Art, Incredible Adventures of Two Girls in Love) who enlisted director/actor Griffin Dunne to helm the project. LPIF was selected for the 2000 Cannes Film Festival's un certain regard and was released theatrically in the United States by FirstLook. Nat is currently working on a new play titled So the Cool Thing is I've Completely Stopped Talking About Him. |
| Raves for LISA PICARD IS FAMOUS “…succeeds by being as heartfelt as it is hilarious.” Peter Travers, Rolling Stone Magazine September 27,2001 *** (3 stars) “Lisa Picard Is Famous is a high-grade lampoon, at once more consistently on the money and less patronizing than anything off the Christopher Guest conveyor belt.” Jan Stuart, Newsday August 22, 2001 “Hilarious” “The movie’s funniest and broadest comic moments show Tate’s (DeWolf) Off-Off-Broadway debut in an excruciating one-man show Hate Crimes and Broken Hearts.” Stephen Holden, The New York Times August 22, 2001 ***(3 stars) “…much smarter, and in a gentle low-key way, tougher and funnier than you expect.” “It would be far too easy to make fun of a couple of solipsistic would-be thespians and, fortunately, the makers of this film – stars/co-writers Laura Kirk and Nat DeWolf, and director/star Griffin Dunne – are too smart to fall into that trap.” Jonathan Foreman, The New York Post August 22,2001 “The writer’s skewering of Hollywood liberal bandwagon-jumping is the funniest thing in the picture. A close second is Tate’s reaction (DeWolf) when Hollywood throws big-time option money at him…” Matt Zoller Seitz, The New York Press August 22-28, 2001 |
| “Squirmingly funny…” “It’s not every comedy that can make you laugh with ridicule and cringe in empathetic horror at the same time…” Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly September 21, 2001 |